The front plow is the blade everyone pictures: mounted on the front of a pickup, dump truck or loader and pushed down the road or across a lot. We wire a plow down signal into the GPS tracker so every plowed street and lot is recorded with a time and place, across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
On pickups and light trucks, the plow usually has its own electric hydraulic power unit mounted on the plow frame, run from the truck battery and controlled by a joystick or hand controller in the cab. On municipal dump trucks and larger plow trucks, the blade is lifted and angled by the truck's central hydraulic system, often driven by a PTO or an engine mounted pump, with valves controlled from the cab.
Either way, the moment that matters is the blade touching the road, and that is what plow down monitoring records.
Chassis wire colors are in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
Snow work is judged after the storm. Residents ask when their street was plowed. Property managers question invoices for multiple pushes. Slip and fall claims can arrive months later asking whether a lot was cleared. A map of blade-down passes with times answers each of those directly.
For public works, the same map shows which routes are done during the storm, so supervisors can move trucks to where they are needed without radio calls.
City and county public works, state highway maintenance yards, private snow contractors and property management companies with their own trucks. Wing, belly and tow plows each have their own pages, and the whole snow fleet is covered on our snow plow tracking page.
This is one of the work truck and equipment applications we wire into GPS trackers. See all of them on our PTO and equipment monitoring page, and find wire colors for your truck in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
We wire PTO monitoring into trackers from all of these brands. Need heavy duty trackers for trucks or heavy equipment? Every brand below makes them, so pick yours and we install it.
Common questions
Yes, with a plow down sensor or controller signal wired into a tracker input.
Yes. The plow side connector disconnects, and the platform shows no plow activity until it is reconnected.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, at your yard, on your schedule. Call or text 803-513-1009.
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