Can/do companies track the location of their field employees by means of a GPS?
Without knowing exactly what your friend’s company gave him, it’s difficult to say for sure what it’s capable of. A standard Global Positioning System receiver (GPSr) would generally not be capable of being tracked. However, major GPS manufacturers like Garmin have been pretty quick to latch on to the fleet management applications of GPS. Garmin’s site details their fleet management solutions, for instance. A quick Google search for GPS fleet management will turn up plenty of companies like Navtrak, which can track everything from basic travel paths to fuel usage, startup/shutdown times, speed, etc. Solutions can come in the form of handheld devices, portable navigation devices (PNDs…typically d
