API Signal installs fleet GPS trackers, dash cameras and telematics in High Point at your yard, plant or shop, and across the four counties the city sits in. We install for trades running 1 to 10 vehicles, beverage and box-truck fleets, bus operators, manufacturers that deliver their own goods, and truck upfitters.
High Point makes vehicles as well as running them. Thomas Built Buses was founded here in 1916 and is still one of the city's largest employers, with a 275,000 square foot plant, opened in 2004, building conventional school buses. Mickey Truck Bodies, in business since 1904, builds truck bodies on Trinity Avenue, including the side-load beverage bodies that soft-drink and beer distributors run. A city that produces buses and truck bodies is also full of the people who operate them: school and activity bus contractors, church and daycare fleets, and beverage, dry-freight and refrigerated route trucks.
The trades are the other half. The Census Bureau estimates High Point at 120,571 people in July 2025, up from 114,059 in 2020. Electricians, plumbers, heating and air companies, roofers and landscapers with 1 to 10 vehicles work from shops in the city and from homes in Archdale, Trinity and Jamestown.
Manufacturing and distribution keep delivery fleets busy all year. The city's largest employer runs distribution here with about 3,000 people, hosiery and textile mills still ship from town, and furniture makers and their suppliers move goods between plants every day, quite apart from the two Market weeks.
Then there is construction. High Point University broke ground in August 2025 on a $100 million library due to open in 2027, on a campus that has kept building contractors busy for years, and NCDOT is widening Johnson Street and Sandy Ridge Road through to 2029. High Point also owns its electric utility, founded in 1893, which serves about 44,000 customers and brings line and tree contractors with it.
We install every major platform and set it up for the vehicles that are common here: route trucks with doors down both sides, buses that arrive with factory telematics, and box trucks too large to go home with the driver.
Hardwired trackers on route trucks, box trucks, service vans and pickups, plug-in or second units on buses that already carry a factory device, and after-hours location alerts for vehicles that are meant to stay at the yard.
Road-facing, side and rear cameras laid out for the body on the truck, interior and rear cameras for buses, and driver-facing units where your insurer or your contract asks for them, all powered from fused circuits of their own.
CalAmp, Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Geotab, Lytx, Netradyne, Powerfleet and more, with door and PTO inputs where the body calls for them, driver ID for trucks shared across shifts, and each vehicle's home yard recorded against the right county.
Along the sides, because that is where the work and the risk are. A side-load body has roll-up bays down both sides, and the driver unloads standing beside the truck, often in a traffic lane or a tight alley behind a store. A single forward camera sees none of that, and it misses the low-speed scrapes against poles, awnings and parked cars that a route truck picks up.
We install a road-facing camera at the windshield, a side camera on each side looking back along the bays, and a rear camera mounted high on the back wall for reversing. The cable runs along the body frame, clipped and protected, so it is a job for after the body is mounted on the chassis and before the truck goes on a route. When a new truck is on order, give us the delivery date and we schedule the install for that week.
Because a tracker tells you where the bus is, and most operators also need to see what happened on it. Thomas Built announced in 2016 that a Zonar telematics unit would be factory-installed as standard on Saf-T-Liner HDX, EFX and Minotour buses ordered from November 14 of that year, having already made it standard on the Saf-T-Liner C2. That covers location and vehicle data. Cameras are a separate purchase, and so is any platform a contractor already uses for the rest of its fleet.
We leave the factory unit exactly as it was built. Road-facing, interior and rear cameras get their own fused power feeds and their own cable runs, with nothing spliced into the factory harness, so the factory unit is untouched and keeps working exactly as it did before. If you run vans and cars on a different platform and want the buses on the same screen, we add that system's device alongside. A church with two activity buses and an operator with sixty get the same approach.
It changes arrival times now and geofences later. NCDOT awarded a $68 million contract to widen Johnson Street and Sandy Ridge Road from two lanes to four over nearly 4.5 miles, from Skeet Club Road to I-40. Work started in fall 2025, the job was about 16% complete in September 2026, and all lanes are due to open in fall 2029. The first phase, from Skeet Club Road to Kendale Road, has a traffic shift targeted for late November 2026.
If your yard is on that corridor, we book the install for early morning. If your vehicles work it, the thing to watch is each traffic shift. Driveways and entrances move as the road is rebuilt, so a tightly drawn geofence is liable to miss an arrival. We name the corridor's geofences as a group at setup, so they are quick to find and redraw after each phase.
We set an after-hours alert on it, because in High Point it is not supposed to. The city's code enforcement rules tell residents not to park a large truck, meaning one more than 24 feet long or over 14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, on the street or on private property except when loading or unloading. A box truck or a loaded service body left in a neighborhood overnight is the kind of thing that brings a complaint to the company's door.
We record each vehicle's length and weight class at install and mark the ones over the line. Those trucks get a home geofence at the yard and an alert if they are parked anywhere else after hours. Vans and pickups under the limit are left out of it, so the rule lands only on the vehicles it applies to. It also means the install for those larger trucks is always done at the yard, where they are every night.
All four counties the city reaches into, Guilford, Davidson, Randolph and Forsyth:
Plant, yard, church lot or driveway, on whichever side of the county lines it falls: we come to the vehicles.
Yes. Whether it is six roofing trucks or eighty route trucks, the technicians, the wiring standard and the live test are the same. A fleet of 1 to 10 is usually a single visit to the shop, and we agree the start time with you so the crews are not kept waiting.
Verizon Connect, Lytx, Netradyne, Geotab, Powerfleet, CalAmp, Samsara, Motive and more. We are an independent installer. We install the one your contract or your insurer names, and where a vehicle already carries a factory unit we add yours beside it.
Yes. For body builders and upfitters we install at your plant once the body is mounted, so the truck reaches its owner with the tracker and cameras already working and nothing left to book afterward. We need the end customer's platform and device kit ahead of time, and we label and document the install so their own shop understands it later.
It makes no difference to the install, and we record it for you. High Point is the only municipality in North Carolina that lies in four counties, and vehicle property tax follows the address a vehicle is registered at. We record each vehicle's home yard and county in the platform at install, which keeps your own records straight when the fleet is split across a county line.
Yes, along with Wallburg and Lexington. We work throughout the four counties around High Point, and a fleet with vehicles in several of those towns is planned as one job.
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