Construction & civil
Civil contractor recovers after-hours asset use
Unauthorised weekend movement of utes and small plant drove fuel and wear. Curfew-style alerts and a live yard view let the workshop lead intervene the same day—without blanket bans on legitimate overtime.
- Fleet mix
- Utes, service trucks, and small plant
- Primary signals
- Curfew + geofenced yard
- Operational win
- Fewer misuse incidents
Customer profile
A civil contractor with multiple active corridors and a central equipment yard. Fleet includes crew utes, water carts, and a growing pool of small tracked plant. Yard manager accountable for fuel budgets and hire-purchase compliance.
Situation
Fuel spend climbed without a matching increase in billed machine hours. Mechanics noticed excess hours on small excavators that did not line up with rostered shifts. Informal weekend borrowing was suspected but proving it was difficult and politically sensitive.
Approach
Wired trackers on utes and selected plant with ignition-linked reporting where supported. Trakngo after-hours movement alerts were scoped to yard exit geofences and weekend windows. Leadership paired alerts with a clear policy refresh: legitimate weekend work would be pre-authorised in the job system so alerts meant “unknown” movement.
Results
Noticeable drop in unexplained weekend kilometres within the first quarter. The yard manager could open a single timeline when discussing behaviour with crew leads—conversations became specific and shorter. Insurance documentation for a minor theft attempt improved because last-known positions were recent and precise.
Key takeaways
- Alerts work best when HR and operations agree what “authorised” looks like in data.
- Yard geofences are a simple anchor for exit/entry logic on spread sites.
- Plant and road vehicles benefit from one workspace instead of siloed tools.
Next step
Illustrative scenario for the site renewal—swap in named customers when you are ready.
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