Reducing your carbon footprint, not to mention fuel expenses, by purchasing a hybrid car can help you feel great about your commitment to the planet and have a little extra cash on hand to enjoy other things in life. What many people don’t realize, is that you can further enhance your commitment to a greener lifestyle (and bank account) by adding GPS car tracking to your hybrid vehicle.

One important thing to note, though, when it comes to GPS tracking for hybrid cars and trucks, is that traditional GPS tracking methods that are employed are ineffective with hybrid and other alternative vehicles. This means you’ll need to look for GPS tracking services and tools designed specifically to measure data when the ignition is actually on rather than merely monitoring engine activity. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists in Iceland released a “message in a bottle” that has now just washed up after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean for thousands of miles in the Faroe Islands.

This “message in a bottle”, along with another one, was fitted with a GPS tracker last year in southern Iceland dropped into the sea from a helicopter.

One was found in January on Tiree while the other in Faroese Island of Sandoy. Scientists released the two bottles simultaneously in the beginning of their “marine pollution” experiment. They both floated west towards Canada after passing the Greenland coast before they went east. It looked like the second bottle would end up back on the Iceland shores before it headed in the Shetland direction and then drifted back to the Faroes. Read the rest of this entry »

Golf course equipment, lawn mowers, especially, are an investment you make in the beauty and integrity of your golf course. It’s an investment that requires careful selection and protection. Not only can your golf course mowers be a target of thieves interested in off-loading expensive equipment, but also the target of people interested in joy rides as well.

GPS equipment tracking can help you get more mileage from your golf course mowers and so much more. These are just a few of the ways GPS asset tracking can help you protect your equipment investment.

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Families throughout the U.S. are obsessed with services that deliver fresh ingredients so they can prepare dinner each night. Services exist accommodating a wide range of needs and interests from healthy fresh foods to vegetarian, vegan, paleo, and even smoothies and soups with new companies getting in on the lucrative action all the time. Because the competition is so fierce, it’s important to make your dinner ingredients delivery business stand out from your competition. Offering GPS fleet tracking can help you do just that. These are a few of the benefits you stand to gain.

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Although there was a 53 percent decline in teenage driver fatalities between the years 2005 and 2014, teen drivers are twice as likely to get into in a fatal accident as adult drivers.

Research conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has found that the inexperience and immaturity contribute to these fatal accidents. Both these factors lead to high-risk driving behavior such as: Read the rest of this entry »