GPS Tracking

And the Winner Is…

It’s that time of the year again…MARCH MADNESS!

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is one of the most exciting events in sports. The NCAA Tournament, often referred to as “March Madness” or the “Big Dance”, consists of 4 distinct rounds that are played to pare the 68 college basketball teams down to one National Champion.

And so in the spirit of March Madness, we here at LandAirSea want to announce the winner of our Tuesday GPS Tracking Key Giveaway. And the winner is… Jim Turcan!

Mr. Jim Turcan recently entered in the Tuesday Tracking Giveaway contest by visiting our website, and has been chosen as the winner of a brand new GPS Tracking Key, valued at $179.00!

(more…)

_{»crosslinked«}

The Effects of Rising Fuel Costs on the Economy

Last week, Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) chief oil analyst Tom Kloza said that the average price of gas could reach $4.25 per gallon by late March or April. The price of gasoline has been tracking closely with oil prices, which have risen about 8% since the end of January 2012. Kloza also noted that refineries have begun switching to costlier summer blends of fuel, which adds roughly 10 cents per gallon of gasoline.

This along with escalating tensions with Iran, and more recently, with conflicts in Afghanistan have caused gas prices to rise due to the uncertainty of fuel supply from the Middle East. This means that gas prices could reach potentially climb as high as $5, or perhaps even more, within this year.

In a recent report from the Beaumont Enterprise, Kloza said that “About 70 percent of the economy is connected to consumers, and gasoline prices are magical for a large portion of consumers.”

(more…)

Scott County Will Test New GPS Tracking System

Officials in Scott County, MS, will be testing some new GPS tracking equipment to help monitor the county’s garbage trucks. The preliminary plan to test the GPS tracking system on two of the county’s trucks, which were purchased for roughly $400 each, was approved by the Board of Supervisors during their regular meeting.

While fleet supervisors expressed interest in placing the GPS trackers throughout the entire solid waste fleet, the two devices were purchased as a pilot program to gauge the effectiveness of the new GPS tracking system. Once tested and shown to be effective, the tracking system will not only be outfitted for the entire solid waste disposal fleet, it could be expanded to other county-owned vehicles, such as law enforcement.

(more…)

A Costly Oversight

A report from the Chicago Tribune shows that Chicago aviation officials wasted at least $171,000 on a GPS-capable cell phone service. The GPS tracking technology ended up being completely useless since they didn’t work inside the terminals at O’Hare International Airport. The report, released today, was compiled by the city’s inspector general.

According to Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, the probe covered a period of 3 years, from 2008 through 2010, and spanned over the terms of three commissioners at the Chicago Department of Aviation. The bulk of the responsibility rests on the shoulders of Rosemarie Andolino, the current aviation commissioner who Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed in April 2009, for failing to exercise proper oversight of the GPS tracking system.

Ferguson confronted Andolino about his findings to which she agreed, and in turn, she disconnected the GPS system service for 122 department cell phones and 13 vehicles in the fall of 2011.

(more…)

LightSquared’s Affect on Current GPS Frequency Usage

In 2005, President Barack Obama, who served as a Senator at the time, invested a significant amount of his personal funds into a company known as SkyTerra, which would later assume the name LightSquared, Inc. The company planned to establish a network of terrestrial (ground-based) communication systems that would allow for unparalleled satellite and mobile device communication. This would allow them to develop a high-speed wireless mobile network, that would be in direct competition with mobile carrier such as AT&T and Verizon.

In January 2011, the FCC granted LightSquared unprecedented access to expand their operations into the wireless internet bandwidth spectrum as part of Obama’s plan to increase access and performance of broadband internet services to people nationwide. Opponents of this expansion, most prominently  the Coalition to Save our GPS, claim that the terrestrial stations will pose a significant signal disruption in the same bandwidth frequency utilized by our country’s GPS tracking constellation of satellites.

(more…)

GPS Tracking Systems Necessary Tool for Fleet and Construction Professionals

The effective and efficient management of construction equipment is absolutely crucial to maintaining the bottom-line, especially when it comes to company vehicles. One way to help significantly increase the overall efficiency of construction and fleet service vehicles is by installing GPS tracking devices, such as LandAirSea’s SilverCloud.

According to Swedish analyst firm Berg Insight, who specializes in providing analytical projections data and research on machine-to-machine services fleet-management systems for commercial vehicles in North America is growing across the board – including in heavy-industry sectors such as construction. In fact, Berg Insight expects the overall fleet-management market to reach 3.8 million by 2015.

(more…)

Big Brother for Big Brother

No one likes being on the receiving end of a speeding ticket. If you’ve ever gotten one, you know how it feels. What makes it worse is knowing that police officers do it all the time without getting penalized for breaking the same laws they’re asking you to abide by. Well, looks like someone finally did something about it.

Last fall, the Sun Sentinel began their investigation into the rampant problem of speeding police officers in South Florida. They obtained and analyzed the data that they collected from SunPass toll records, and recently shared their findings with police departments and sheriff’s offices. As a result, their investigation has spurred South Florida police chiefs and elected leaders to crack down on speeding cops with threats of tough punishment and even employing the use of GPS tracking technology.

(more…)

About Cory Joyce Racing

Accomplished young racer Cory Joyce began his racing career at eight years old with a go kart he received as a Christmas gift from his parents. Since his first laps around Sugarhill Raceway in New Hampshire, Joyce has been establishing his racing career around the east coast.

A native of Gilford, New Hampshire, Joyce and his family moved to Mooresville, North Carolina, in 2005 to expand his racing career. For the next three years, Cory continued racing go karts and logging laps on the track. He scored multiple wins at local tracks and was the WKA National Pavement Series Champion at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in 2007.

In early 2008, Cory Joyce Racing purchased a limited late model from NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standout Ron Hornaday. That same year, Cory ran in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series at Tri-County Speedway, where he finished eighth in points despite running only six of the 17 races that entire year.

(more…)

Start Spreading the News…New York, New York

Last December, Brooklyn parents were rightfully upset after finding out that their children’s school bus driver had gotten lost, adding an extra five hours to the commute home.

According to a report from the New York Daily News, special needs and disabled students from four different Brooklyn public schools were taken on the nightmare trip home on November 29th after dismissal. Parents claim that they were never notified by the school that their children would be coming home late.

“I was so scared. I thought my child was killed or abducted,” said an East New York mother.

(more…)

 New Wisconsin Law on GPS Monitoring

The Wisconsin State Senate has passed a new bill that will allow judges to place restraining order violators on GPS monitoring.

Under this new bill, the Department of Corrections will track the violator’s movements via a GPS tracking device, such as an ankle bracelet. The GPS tracker will then notify police if the violator enters an area he or she is required to avoid under the restraining order. Anyone that’s being monitored by the GPS tracker will have to pay a $200 surcharge to cover tracking costs.

The Wisconsin Senate also approved another bill by voice vote that will increase the penalty for domestic abusers who contact victims from a $1,000 civil forfeiture to a misdemeanor punishable by up to $10,000 in fines and nine months behind bars.

(more…)