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Capability

Delivery Vehicle Tracking

Live position for every delivery vehicle on the same screen as the run it was given, with idle, hard braking and speeding raised to the office while the morning is still running.

How it works

Tracker integration puts an OBD unit in the vehicle, around $20 to buy and about $70 a year to run, reporting position into Bodhisys rather than into a portal somebody has to keep open in a second tab. The van moves on the same map as the stops it was given.

The office dashboard raises the events worth a phone call. A driver idle for five minutes at one spot, and again at fifteen. A hard deceleration. A speed over the limit for the road. Each one lands against the vehicle, the driver and the run, so it reads as a fact about this morning rather than a line in a fleet report nobody opens.

Completed stops leave the screen as they close, which turns the map into a live audit. Anything still showing behind the vehicle position is a stop the driver has gone past without closing it. The office screenshots that and texts the driver while the van is still on the road, which is the difference between a fix and a refund.

The run re-adapts while it is running. An order taken at half past ten is sequenced into a run already halfway through, so the new stop lands in the right place on the loop instead of becoming a second trip at the end of the day.

Van 1, Saturday morning, from the office

Stops closed 0 of 60%

Deliveries4
Pickups3
Alerts raised4
Depot1234567

Open stops 6

  • 114 Sea Pines Circle8:10am · 4 bikes, 2 umbrellasOpen
  • 23 Barony Lane8:35am · Crib and high chairOpen
  • 38 Palmetto Row9:00am · 6 chairs out, 6 backOpen
  • 4212 Hilton Head Way9:20am · 2 e-bikesOpen
  • 519 Lagoon Road9:45am · 8 chairsOpen
  • 67 Shelter Cove10:05am · 2 paddleboardsOpen
  • 741 Marshland RoadTaken 9:33am · 6 chairsAdded

Alerts

  • Nothing raised yet. The run is going the way it was planned.
  • Idle 5 minutesVan 1 stationary at 8 Palmetto Row since 8:47am.
  • Idle 15 minutesStill at 8 Palmetto Row. Worth a call before the next window slips.
  • Hard decelerationVan 1 on Pope Avenue, 9:11am.
  • Speeding47 in a 35 on Cordillo Parkway, 9:24am.

Van 1 leaves the depot with six stops in the order the run was built. Everything on the map is open work.

Closed stops leave the screen, so what is left on the map is the work that is left. A stop still showing behind the van has been passed without being closed.

What it removes

Finding out at four o'clock that a stop was skipped at nine.

The number to watch is stops closed against stops planned while the van is still moving, and how many alerts the office acts on the same morning.

What it does not do

The tracker is a fixed integration rather than an open list of devices. One supported unit, chosen so the data arriving is the same shape every time, in the same way card processing runs through one processor.

This shows position and raises events. It is no substitute for a driver scorecard, a payroll timeclock or an hours-of-service compliance system, and it makes no claim to be one.

Guest-facing delivery tracking, the view where a customer watches how many stops away the van is, has not shipped. It is the strongest thing on this page for a last-minute booking and it is still on the roadmap, so treat it as absent from what you would be buying today.

Every capability page on this site carries a section like this one. Why that is.

What is delivery vehicle tracking in rental software?

Live position for every delivery vehicle on the same screen as the run it was given, with idle, hard braking and speeding raised to the office while the morning is still running.

Bodhisys handles it as part of the platform rather than as a paid module or a partner integration. There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.

Questions

What hardware does it need?

An OBD tracker in each delivery vehicle, around $20 to buy and about $70 a year to run. Bodhisys integrates with one supported unit rather than with any tracker on the market.

What alerts does the office get?

Idle at one spot for five minutes and again at fifteen, hard deceleration, and speeding against the limit for the road. Each alert names the vehicle, the driver and the run it belongs to.

How does it catch a missed stop?

Completed stops drop off the map as they close. A stop still showing behind the vehicle position has been passed without being closed, and the office can text the driver before the van gets any further.

Does the run change when a new order arrives?

Yes. An order taken mid-morning is sequenced into a run that is already moving, so it joins the loop in the right place.

Can our guests watch their delivery?

Not yet. Guest-facing delivery tracking has not shipped and there is no date published for it.

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Verified against public documentation, 2026-08.