Industries · Construction & Mixed Fleets

Track Every Truck, Trailer, and Machine That Moves Between Job Sites.

Construction fleets don't sit still. Equipment moves site to site, devices get knocked loose, and four OEM logins still don't tell you where everything is. Red Dot puts vehicles and equipment in one platform — and coordinates the remount when a device comes off.

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$300M–$1B
in construction equipment stolen across the U.S. every year — with fewer than 1 in 4 machines ever recovered.
NICB / National Equipment Register
~38%
average idle time on heavy equipment in North America — fuel and engine hours burned without doing work.
Komatsu telematics study, 75,000 machines
$30K
average loss per heavy-equipment theft — before the project delay, rental replacement, and claim.
National Equipment Register
The Operational Reality

What Makes a Construction Fleet Harder to Track Than a Truck Fleet.

A long-haul truck stays bolted together and runs a route. Construction is the opposite — a mixed fleet of vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment that moves between sites constantly, gets handled rough, and rarely reports through one system. Here's where it breaks down.

01
Devices Come Off When Equipment Moves.
Trackers on excavators, skid steers, and trailers take a beating loading and unloading. They get knocked loose during a site move, and every reattach is a separate service call nobody planned for.
Each remount: an unplanned service event
02
Four OEM Logins, No Single View.
CAT, Deere, Komatsu — each brand has its own telematics dashboard, and none of them track your trailers or pickups. The fleet manager logs into four systems and still can't see the whole yard.
No unified picture of the fleet
03
Equipment Sits Unattended and Walks Off.
A $30,000 machine left on a site overnight or over a weekend is a target. If the tracker fell off during the last move, there's no last-known location to give police or the insurer.
Theft loss + claim disputes
04
Hours Get Billed to the Wrong Job.
Without reliable location and runtime data, equipment time is estimated, not measured. Hours land on the wrong job, idle machines burn fuel, and job costing is a guess instead of a number.
Margin lost to bad job costing
One Platform for a Mixed Fleet

Vehicles, Trailers, and Heavy Equipment. One View, One Login.

Red Dot tracks the whole fleet in one place — powered vehicles, non-powered trailers, and off-road equipment — instead of four OEM dashboards that don't talk to each other. Here's what lives on one screen.

Vehicles
Real-time location, route history, idle time, and driver activity on pickups, dump trucks, and service vehicles — the same GPS tracking a long-haul fleet runs.
Heavy Equipment
Track excavators, loaders, skid steers, and generators with runtime and movement data — regardless of the equipment brand or its OEM dashboard.
Trailers & Assets
Asset trackers on non-powered trailers, light towers, and tool trailers, so nothing on the yard is invisible just because it doesn't have an engine.
Geofences
Draw a boundary around each job site and yard. Get alerts when equipment arrives, leaves, or moves outside working hours.
Runtime & Idle
See engine hours and idle time per machine, so productive time is measured and idle fuel waste is caught.
10–30%
of the fuel a construction fleet burns goes to nonproductive idling. Telematics typically cuts that idling 10–15% — and surfaces machines sitting unused so a manager can reassign or return them instead of renting another.
Theft, Recovery & Accountability

The Machine Left on Site Overnight Is the One That Disappears.

Most equipment theft happens when a site is empty — nights, weekends, between phases. Fewer than 25% of stolen heavy equipment is ever recovered. But recovery rates climb sharply when a machine is tracked: in one industry study, 69% of recovered equipment had a tracking device installed, and GPS-tracked assets are typically located in hours instead of weeks. Asset tracking doesn't stop a theft from starting — it changes everything about what happens next.

Movement Alerts After Hours
A geofence around the site flags any asset that moves outside scheduled working hours — the difference between catching a theft in progress and finding out Monday morning.
Last-Known Location for Recovery
When something does walk off, a current location gives police and the insurer something to act on — instead of a description and a serial number.
A Tracker That's Actually Attached
None of this works if the device fell off during the last move. That's why the remount matters — and why Red Dot coordinates it instead of leaving it on your crew.
Documented Equipment History
Location and runtime records support insurance claims, disputes over equipment use, and proof of where a machine was on a given day.
<25%
of stolen heavy equipment is ever recovered when it isn't tracked. A tracker that's actually attached when a machine walks off is the difference between a last-known location and a serial number. That's why coordinating the remount matters — a device that fell off during the last move protects nothing.
Built for the Way Construction Runs

Made for Equipment That Moves, Gets Handled Rough, and Has to Be Accounted For.

Every capability here exists because construction fleets asked for it — not because it looked good in a feature list.

Mixed-Fleet Tracking
Vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment of any brand on one map — no separate OEM logins to manage.
Coordinated Remounts
When a device comes off during a move, a certified technician is scheduled through Techsbook — you don't chase a vendor.
Job-Site Geofences
Boundaries around every site and yard, with arrival, departure, and after-hours movement alerts.
Runtime & Idle Data
Engine hours and idle time per machine — the inputs for accurate job costing and fuel control.
Theft Alerts & Recovery
After-hours movement alerts and last-known location to support recovery and insurance claims.
One Coordinator
A single point of contact owns rollout and support across every job site — no department runaround.
What Tracking Returns for a Construction Fleet

Where the Platform Pays for Itself.

The return on a construction fleet isn't one line item — it's the unplanned costs that stop happening once equipment is tracked and service is coordinated.

Equipment recovered or never stolen because it was tracked and the device stayed attached
$30K+ / event
Idle fuel and runtime waste caught and cut once machine hours are visible
Measurable
Hours billed to the right job instead of estimated — accurate job costing
Recovered margin
Internal hours your team isn't spending coordinating remounts and vendor scheduling
Hours back
The shift
From guessing to knowing
Common Questions

GPS & Asset Tracking for Construction — Common Questions.

Yes. Red Dot tracks trucks, trailers, and non-powered or off-road equipment in a single platform, so a mixed fleet doesn't need separate OEM dashboards for each equipment brand. Vehicles report through GPS devices; trailers and equipment use asset and trailer trackers — all visible in one view.
Remounts are one of the most common construction service events. With Red Dot, a remount is scheduled through the Techsbook technician network — every Red Dot customer can book a certified technician directly, and qualifying fleets of 100 or more vehicles add coordinated dispatch and service tokens through the Techsbook Service Plan.
Asset trackers give last-known location and movement alerts on equipment that sits unattended overnight and on weekends — when most theft happens. Fewer than 25% of stolen heavy equipment is ever recovered without tracking; with a tracker installed, recovery rates are dramatically higher and often happen within hours. Geofence alerts flag when an asset leaves a site outside working hours, and last-known location supports recovery and insurance claims.
Yes. Location and runtime data show which equipment was on which site and for how long, so hours can be allocated to the right job instead of estimated. Idle and runtime data also surface equipment that's burning fuel or hours without being productive.
One Red Dot coordinator owns the rollout and ongoing support, and the Techsbook technician network handles the field work — installs, remounts, and hardware swaps — across regional job sites. The fleet doesn't manage vendor scheduling on top of running crews.

Sources: National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and National Equipment Register (NER) equipment theft reports; Komatsu North America telematics idle study; Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) on idle fuel consumption; LoJack/CalAmp construction equipment theft study. Figures are industry estimates and ranges, not guarantees of individual results.

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