Alten Construction was founded in 1995. The general contractor builds a variety of public buildings, including schools, fire stations, and libraries in the Bay Area from San Jose to Santa Rosa, California. Sam Leow, Alten Construction’s Shop Manager, said that as Alten Construction grew, so did their need for a GPS tracking solution for their heavy-duty equipment.

“We wanted to be able to see where our trucks were to be able to dispatch them efficiently,” Leow said.

Alten Construction expanded their fleet substantially in a short time. Keeping an eye on all those new assets, as well as their drivers, was the new priority.

If a truck wasn’t being used effectively, Leow’s goal was to remedy that quickly and easily move the truck to a job site.

As if that weren’t enough, their different pieces of equipment needed specific pieces of GPS and installation hardware. A onesize- fits-all solution was not going to work. Alten Construction needed a solution that would work for each piece of equipment, a solution that always worked when it was turned on, and something their employees could use at a moment’s notice.

A tailor-fit tracking solution

GPS Insight was able to meet their needs while also exceeding their expectations. Now, Leow can make decisions about Alten Construction trucks and equipment that will maximize their productivity.

“I’ll go through the dashboard when somebody was a certain piece of equipment and see who else has one, and I’ll do a run time report on that piece to see if they’ve been using it for the past week or ten days or so,” he said. “If equipment is not being used, I’ll take it and put it someplace where it can be used instead of sitting.”

The company needed OBD2 trackers, truck trackers for semis, and at least 36 trackers for heavy-duty equipment. According to Leow, GPS Insight was the only provider who, “had tracking for everything for our equipment. There were different kinds of hardware to fit different kinds of equipment that we’re using.”