Delivery Vehicle Tracking for Car rental companies

Every rental turns on a driver file that has to be complete before the keys move: licence, minimum age, proof of insurance, and an authorisation hold that has to be placed and later released against the right card. A counter clerk assembling that from four systems on a Friday afternoon is where the queue and the exposure both come from.

The other half is the walkaround. Fuel level, odometer and existing damage recorded with photographs at collection and again at return, held against that VIN rather than against the booking, is what decides a damage claim in six weeks. Cars also move between branches and airports, so the location on the record has to keep up with a vehicle that was dropped somewhere it did not start.

Between a return and the next pickup sit refuelling, a valet and a condition check. That gap is short, and a car promised for two o'clock that is still being cleaned at ten past is the booking that gets refunded.

A tracker on the car closes the gap between the driver file and the vehicle. Position sits against the VIN beside the walkaround photos, and a boundary alert is what tells you a car has crossed a state line the rental agreement did not cover.

What the platform does here is narrow and specific. 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.

The problem 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.

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.