GPS & Camera Installer in Gastonia, NC

Which fleets do we install for around Gastonia?

Many Gaston County companies do much of their work in Mecklenburg. The Census Bureau puts Gastonia at 87,067 residents in July 2025, up 8.2% since 2020, and Gaston County at 246,558, with an average commute of 27 minutes. The trades follow the same pattern as the commuters: electricians, plumbers, HVAC companies, roofers and landscapers with 1 to 10 vehicles, based in Gastonia, Dallas or Belmont and crossing the river for work several days a week.

Medium-duty trucks are a local product. Freightliner has built trucks at its Mount Holly plant since 1979, including the full Business Class M2 line, and a sister plant on Tulip Drive in Gastonia has supplied cab and chassis components since 1978. The M2 is one of the most widely used medium-duty trucks in the country, and plenty of them work within a few miles of where they were assembled, as box trucks, flatbeds, dump trucks and service bodies.

Manufacturing is broader than trucks. One of the country's large yarn spinners is headquartered in Gastonia, and the county's industrial parks, including the 422-acre Gastonia Technology Park, hold makers of window coverings, drainage pipe, plastics and packaged foods. Their freight moves on local carriers and on the companies' own trucks.

Utilities and health care add specialized fleets. Gastonia has run its own electric system since 1900, and its water utility serves about a dozen towns from Bessemer City to Cramerton, plus Clover across the South Carolina line. CaroMont opened a $260 million hospital in Belmont in March 2026. Line, tree, pipe and facilities contractors work for all of them.

What makes fleet installs in Gastonia different?

Where do you take power on a Freightliner M2?

From the connection points the truck provides, and never by cutting into the harness. Freightliner describes the current M2 106 Plus as built on a multiplexed electrical system. On a multiplexed truck, switches and lights are run by control modules that talk to each other over a data network, so a wire does not simply carry power from a switch to a lamp. Tap the wrong one and the result is a fault code or a warning light.

So we connect a tracker at the diagnostic connector with a pass-through harness, which gives it power, ignition status and engine data while leaving the port open for the shop's diagnostic tool. Cameras and other added equipment take power from the fused points intended for accessories. Freightliner also lists the truck with its own factory connectivity, and our device sits alongside that without interfering with it. The M2 is built in Mount Holly, so it is the first truck we plan for on a Gaston County job.

Both roads into Charlotte are being rebuilt. How should we plan around the river?

Assume the crossing is the slowest part of every job and measure it. NCDOT awarded a $337 million contract in July 2025 to widen four miles of I-85 between Exit 23 and Exit 27 from six lanes to eight, a job that replaces or rehabilitates six bridges, including the interstate's bridge over the South Fork, with completion expected in 2029. It is one part of a 9.8-mile, $635 million program running from US 321 to NC 273. At the same time the Wilkinson Boulevard bridge over the Catawba, which dates from 1933, is being replaced by a six-lane bridge built in stages beside the old one.

For a company with customers on both sides, that means arrival times will be unreliable for years. We put geofences on both crossings, so the platform reports how long each trip spends getting over the river and at what time of day, and dispatch sees live which route is moving. It also settles where the install should happen: at your Gaston County yard, first thing.

Our heavy trucks are accused of using the left lanes on I-85. Can a camera settle it?

Yes. NCDOT's truck restriction table bars trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating with three or more axles from the two leftmost lanes of I-85 through eastern Gaston County to the Mecklenburg line, under an ordinance that has been in force since 2008. Dump trucks, roll-offs, mixers and tractors are all covered.

A GPS position is accurate to a few yards at best, which is not enough to say which lane a truck was in. Video is. A road-facing camera shows the lane markings, the signs and the traffic around the truck, with time and speed attached, so a complaint or a citation is answered with footage instead of a driver's word. We mount the camera where it sees the full width of the road, and we mark the restricted stretch as a geofence so clips from it are easy to find.

What does Christmas Town do to evening routes in December?

It changes evening driving in one corner of the county for most of the month. McAdenville's Christmas lights began in 1956. In 2026 they run from December 1 to December 26, from 5:30 to 10:00 every night, with the tree lighting on December 1 and the Yule Log Parade on December 10. The town sits beside I-85 between Lowell and Cramerton, and visitors come by the carload every night of the run.

If you have service calls or deliveries in that area, the simple rule is to be finished by 5:30. A geofence around McAdenville with a time-of-day report for December shows which jobs ran late into the traffic, and helps you move them into the morning the following week. Any install for a yard in Lowell, Cramerton or McAdenville in December is set for the morning for the same reason.

What do Gastonia fleet managers ask us?

Do you install for Gaston County businesses with 1 to 10 vehicles?

Yes. Five vans or a hundred trucks, the people doing the work and the way it is wired and checked are the same. For a fleet of 1 to 10 we normally plan one visit to the shop or the owner's home, arranged around when the vans need to roll.

Which GPS and camera systems do you install in Gastonia?

Netradyne, Powerfleet, CalAmp, Samsara, Motive, Geotab, Verizon Connect, Lytx and more. We are independent, and we install the system you have chosen. If a shipper you haul for requires its own device on the truck, we install that as well.

Will the I-85 work reach Gastonia itself?

Yes, in a later phase. The contract let in 2025 covers Exit 23 to Exit 27, on the Belmont and Mount Holly end. NCDOT's program for the whole corridor runs 9.8 miles back to US 321 at Exit 17 in Gastonia and replaces eleven road bridges and four railroad bridges, with the next section due to go out for bids in late 2028. Fleets based near the western exits have time to get geofences and arrival reporting in place before the work zone arrives.

We have customers in Clover and York County. Do you work across the state line?

Yes. We install in both states, and for a Gaston County company with South Carolina customers we switch on the platform's miles-by-state report and check it at install. That is what fuel-tax records on heavier trucks call for, and it shows where the day goes.

Do you cover Belmont, Mount Holly, Kings Mountain and Cherryville?

Yes, and Cramerton, Lowell, Ranlo, Dallas, Bessemer City and Stanley as well. We work throughout Gaston County and into Lincoln and Cleveland counties, and vehicles kept in several towns are planned as a single job.