AlerTrax

AlerTrax AlerTrax is a smart GPS/WiFi/LTE tracker that keeps track of your assets and alerts you of troubles.

AlerTrax works both outdoors and indoors to monitor and recover assets quickly.

Most small commercial fleets run a 5-to-1 or 10-to-1 ratio of equipment to trucks. Mowers, skid steers, mini-excavators,...
05/19/2026

Most small commercial fleets run a 5-to-1 or 10-to-1 ratio of equipment to trucks. Mowers, skid steers, mini-excavators, generators, compressors, plate compactors, trailers, attachments, handhelds.

And yet the visibility almost always stops at the truck.

The math on closing that gap is striking:

→ One stolen mower: **$14,000**
→ One stolen skid steer: **$48,000**
→ One stolen trailer with handhelds: **$9,000**
→ One recovered idle asset (vs. renting a duplicate): **$500–$2,000/week**
→ One reduced insurance premium from documented telematics: **ongoing**

A single recovery covers the cost of tracking the entire fleet for years. The operational ROI? Eliminated duplicate purchases, recovered idle equipment, faster locate times, cleaner insurance claims all runs on top of that.

The reason most fleets haven't closed this gap is that traditional wired trackers don't work on mowers, generators, or handhelds. Battery-powered, magnetic, install-yourself changes the math.

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A Saliva singer's trailer with $50,000 in band equipment got stolen last week. Tulsa police tracked it down. They arrest...
05/05/2026

A Saliva singer's trailer with $50,000 in band equipment got stolen last week. Tulsa police tracked it down. They arrested the guy at his house... wearing the singer's t-shirt.

Funny story. But here's the part that should bother every landscaping owner reading it:

That trailer got recovered because Josey Scott is famous and the case got attention.

Yours won't.

When a $40,000 enclosed trailer with mowers, blowers, and trimmers walks off your lot Saturday night, the police aren't going to a rural property to find it. They're filing a report. And 40% of stolen landscaping equipment is never recovered (NICB).

The only thing that brings a stolen trailer back is a tracker that's already on it.

AlerTrax goes on trailers, mowers, skid steers... anything that moves. One year battery, no wiring, magnetic mount, real-time location. The same tracking link that tells your dispatcher where the crew is also tells the cops where your trailer went.

Learn how to protect your trailer. Link in comments 👇

It's 6:30 AM on a Tuesday.Three of your trucks are take-home. Right now, one of them is sitting in a driveway. One is on...
05/04/2026

It's 6:30 AM on a Tuesday.

Three of your trucks are take-home. Right now, one of them is sitting in a driveway. One is on the road. One is sitting at a Wawa.

Do you know which is which?

If the honest answer is no; you're not alone. Most landscaping owners running take-home trucks have no real-time visibility into the morning commute, the evening return, or any of the personal stops in between. Padded start times. Padded stop times. Side trips on company time and company fuel.

It's the largest block of paid time in your week that nobody is watching.

A magnetic GPS tracker, no wiring, no install, gives you exactly the data you've been missing. Engine-on at the residence. Route to the first job. Stops along the way. Arrival timestamp, automatically logged.

You don't have to micromanage. You just have to be able to see.

🔗 Read more at the link listed in the description.

It's 10:30 AM on a Tuesday. Do you know where every one of your crews is right now?Most landscaping owners don't. Not re...
04/27/2026

It's 10:30 AM on a Tuesday. Do you know where every one of your crews is right now?

Most landscaping owners don't. Not really.

They have a general idea... a group text from this morning, a quick call from the foreman... but real, verified knowledge of which crew is at which site and how long they've been there? That's where the money leaks out.

We just put together a free 10-page guide that breaks down exactly how top-performing landscaping companies are using GPS crew tracking to plug those leaks:

✅ How much labor leakage is hiding in a $500K payroll
✅ Why 1 in 5 landscaping jobs is unprofitable (and how to spot them)
✅ What a real Trip Report looks like (with sample data)
✅ How to introduce GPS without crews pushing back

Grab it free in the comments 👇

04/27/2026

It's 10:30 AM on a Tuesday. Do you know where every one of your crews is right now?

Most landscaping owners don't. Not really.

They have a general idea... a group text from this morning, a quick call from the foreman... but real, verified knowledge of which crew is at which site and how long they've been there? That's where the money leaks out.

We just put together a free 10-page guide that breaks down exactly how top-performing landscaping companies are using GPS crew tracking to plug those leaks:

✅ How much labor leakage is hiding in a $500K payroll
✅ Why 1 in 5 landscaping jobs is unprofitable (and how to spot them)
✅ What a real Trip Report looks like (with sample data)
✅ How to introduce GPS without crews pushing back

Grab it free in the comments 👇

04/08/2026

How long would it take you to notice a trailer was missing?

Not to replace it. Not to file insurance.

Just to notice.

If the answer is "hours" or "days," you're carrying more operational risk than you think.

We put together a 15-chapter guide breaking down the hidden costs most equipment-heavy businesses accept without realizing it. Swipe through it below.

A few things that stood out:

→ A single missing trailer can quietly burn $20K–$40K in combined downtime, rentals, and lost productivity
→ Over 70% of stolen construction assets are non-powered — trailers, towables, the stuff no one's watching
→ Average discovery time for stolen equipment: 24–72 hours. After that, recovery drops off a cliff.

This isn't a sales pitch. It's the math behind why "we'd notice quickly" is the most expensive assumption in the trades.

📄 Full guide attached — swipe through it.

How long would it take you to notice a trailer was missing?Not to replace it. Not to file insurance.Just to notice.If th...
04/07/2026

How long would it take you to notice a trailer was missing?

Not to replace it. Not to file insurance.

Just to notice.

If the answer is "hours" or "days," you're carrying more operational risk than you think.

We put together a 15-chapter guide breaking down the hidden costs most equipment-heavy businesses accept without realizing it. Swipe through it below.

A few things that stood out:

→ A single missing trailer can quietly burn $20K–$40K in combined downtime, rentals, and lost productivity
→ Over 70% of stolen construction assets are non-powered - trailers, towables, the stuff no one's watching
→ Average discovery time for stolen equipment: 24–72 hours. After that, recovery drops off a cliff.

This isn't a sales pitch. It's the math behind why "we'd notice quickly" is the most expensive assumption in the trades.

📄 Full guide attached - swipe through it. Or reach out and we'll be happy to send you the PDF.

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