GPS tracking for employees ?
 

Hi: I am looking for advice. I need simple, cheap and reliable solution, so all advices are welcome:

Goal: to track up to 5 people (or more in future) by GPS and organize their routes for delivery

1. They will probably drive only motorbikes.
2. One person in office should be able to track them in real time from desktop application
3. Desktop application should be able to prepare routes (next day for example) .

thank you

Get ready for employees to start calling you an asshole behind your back.

they are not yet employees and will be presented with all this.

It is necessary because of delivery organisation. Schedule must be precise and paired with tons of other things.

(nods)

When they put GPS tracking in our municipal vehicles, they told us similiar reasons. And then they started using it like Big Brother to discipline employees for a myriad of issues, even after it was demonstrated the GPS wasn't reporting duration and location accurately.

Now we have hyper-paranoid employees who feel as if they're going around with a GPS suppository in their ass.

well that is probably different situation. This is small courier service and their job is to deliver regarding plan that they will be made day before.

Like all employees don't do that anyway.

I wouldn't say all. Maybe majority.

Although I've had my share of bosses who I wouldn't cross the street to piss on their head if their hair was on fire...I've been fortunate to work for a few employers over the years that I genuinely liked and got along with very well.

Have you tried to google it. We have a place locally that sells things like that from Watches to chips or things that can be placed in cars. They are not cheap but not really expensive either.

GPS Tracking: Open-Source GPS Tracking System - OpenGTS

If that wont work ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=gps+tracking+program

Use the Latitude and Longitude of each address's proximity to map the routes.

Say that a man can make 25 deliveries a day so that would be the group of the deliveries.

thank you guys.

My brother sells GPS tracking units for commercial fleets. 18 wheelers, delivery trucks, farm equipment, etc.

I don't know if he has anything that would work for delivery bikes, but I will ask when I see him this week.

A friend of mine uses similar units for his bus company. The bad employees complain, the good ones don't care.

Gps
 

A woman I worked with was pissing and moaning one day that they put a GPS on her husbands truck. He was a service tech and going all over town.

She was really angry, a week later when the employer realized he was spending a lot of work time at bars or houses of women that weren't work related service calls.

Also, Google maps has an api that should return the latitude, longitude GPS location for each address.

It's worth the investment to weed out shady employee's

Not to the excuse the worker's bad habits (he was obviously in the wrong) - but what the hell kind of employer learns about his work habits and discloses this information to his wife and family?

I'd be tearing that employer a new asshole for disclosure of privileged, work-related information and breach of trust. I'm sure it must violate a slew of labour codes.

On the surface, I'd agree.

However...as a middle-management supervisor I'm forced to look at both sides of the issue.

I currently have an employee who's been a dedicated, hard-working, loyal worker for ten years. I've often said if I could clone him...I'd hire all the clones, too.

But the moment our employer put a GPS tracker in his vehicle, he became extremely paranoid to the point of no longer taking his 15min breaks and 30min lunch breaks for fear of being reprimanded for parking too long.

Despite our repeated assurances he was legally entitled to the breaks and its mandatory under the Labour Board, he still often works through the day without taking breaks. We've proven the tracking technology to be fallible on a number of occasions, which has only added to his paranoia and mistrust of the GPS systems.