How GPS Truck Tracking Helps You Locate Your Overseas Shipments
posted on 3 April 2011 | posted in
Cars and Transport
Have you ever been to a cargo shipyard and wonder how they can locate the container van that holds your shipment from overseas? It’s downright perplexing seeing all these huge steel boxes piled one on top of the other yet the port man can determine which box is yours.
It all begins when your shipment is taken down from the vessel that transported it. A GPS device is attached to the cargo box and is loaded to a designated truck. The cargo box, depending on its size is loaded with other boxes either on 4 or 8 wheeler trucks. These trucks are also attached with a GPS device which enables your broker to trace which box went on which truck. As the trucks are moving they are being monitored from a satellite computer up to the point where they are unloaded. Once it is unloaded at its destination employees at the shipyard take hold of all the necessary paperwork including data taken from the GPS truck tracking system which tells them the time the cargo box arrived, when it was sent and from what destination it came from.
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