What's the percentage of cargo truck have GPS tracking?

Question

I thought that if the recently hightjacked truck have GPS then the police could find it?

Answer 1

Yes, mainly the larger companies have those.  The truck I drive doesn't have it.  I drove for one company that had it on all their trailers, which was good.  I was told to pick up a trailer once, and the trailer wasn't there.  I called back, they tracked it, and found it had already been picked up (not stolen) and was about 600 miles away.  Very handy. I think it's more common to see them on the tractors, rather than all the trailers have them, but that particular company did.  Kinda expensive from what I understand, so very few of the smaller companies have those.

Answer 2

Not all trucks have a tracking system in them. When you see a truck with a white thing behind or on top of the cab, that is the satellite. Most of the larger companies have them since they can use them to track their trucks and also communicate load information to the drivers. Some even allow the drivers to send email - Werner Enterprises and J.B. Hunt are two. I don't know the percentage, but I know there are quite a few.