GPS & Camera Installer in Lexington, SC

Which fleets do we install for around Lexington?

The busiest commercial address in Lexington County is Saxe Gotha Industrial Park, 714 acres running along I-26 about a mile from I-77, with a CSX line on its western edge. Amazon runs two buildings there, including a 1.25 million square foot fulfillment center. Chick-fil-A Supply opened a 165-job distribution center in the park in spring 2025 to keep restaurants stocked, and Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits moved its Columbia operation into a 412,500 square foot warehouse off 12th Street Extension in spring 2026. WESCO Distribution, Dominion Energy and Nephron Pharmaceuticals fill out the tenant list, which means linehaul tractors, route trucks and service vans all working out of the same few gates.

About nine miles away, Columbia Metropolitan Airport sits in Lexington County between Cayce and West Columbia. UPS opened its southeastern regional air hub there in 1996, a 352,000 square foot building built to sort 42,000 packages an hour, and FedEx Express and ABX Air fly freight in and out as well. CAE handled 76,194 tons of cargo in 2019, more than any other airport in South Carolina, and Nephron has leaned on UPS air service from CAE to move its pharmaceutical orders. Every one of those loads reaches the freight ramp on a truck or a van.

Manufacturing runs west along I-20. Michelin made its first tire in Lexington on October 29, 1981, had more than 1,470 people on site by 2021, and its Lexington County plants build everything from passenger radials to earthmover tires, including a 63-inch-rim giant that stands 13 feet 5 inches tall. In December 2024, Lexington County Council voted to open incentive talks with Michelin over a further expansion off Two Notch Road. Behind plants like that sit the parts suppliers, contract carriers, maintenance contractors and equipment rental yards that keep them running, and each of them has vehicles on the road.

Then there are the trades. Builders pulled permits for 2,006 new housing units in Lexington County in 2025, and 2,692 at the 2021 peak, according to Census permit data. Every one of those homes needs framers, electricians, plumbers, HVAC crews, concrete finishers and landscapers, and those companies range from a single owner-operator truck in Red Bank to contractors running dozens of units out of Irmo or Batesburg-Leesville. Town and county fleets are on our municipal page; this page is for the businesses that earn their living on these roads.

What makes commercial fleet installs around Lexington different?

We are moving our yard into Saxe Gotha. What happens to our trackers?

The trackers keep working, but every setting built around your old address stops making sense, so we redo them as part of the move. Southern Glazer's shifted its operation into the park in spring 2026, and Chick-fil-A Supply, Cardiff Products and ALLTAPE all opened or are opening buildings in and around Saxe Gotha within about a year of each other. When a fleet changes base, the home-yard geofence, after-hours alerts, arrival and departure times on your reports and any dispatch zones are all still drawn around the old gate.

We draw the new yard boundary at the actual truck gate, reset the alerts, confirm each unit reports correctly from the new lot, and install on any vehicles added for the new site as they arrive. If you were already planning to add cameras or change platforms, move week is a sensible time to do it, because the trucks are already off their normal pattern and nobody has to pull them out of service twice.

Will GPS show the short runs between Saxe Gotha, the airport and I-26?

Yes, if the logging is set up for short trips. The run from Saxe Gotha to the air cargo side of Columbia Metropolitan Airport is about nine miles, and freight feeding the UPS regional hub moves on a departure clock the driver does not control. On a tracker left on a slow reporting setting, a nine-mile hop can show up as a handful of points joined by straight lines, which tells you nothing about where the truck actually sat and waited.

During setup we adjust logging and turn detection for this kind of work where your platform allows it, then drive a test loop before we leave to confirm the trail follows the road. We add arrival geofences at your shippers' docks and at the cargo gate, so the office sees a truck check in without phoning the driver. On box trucks with metal or composite roofs we place the GPS antenna where it has a clear view of the sky, because an antenna buried under metal is one of the usual reasons a short trip draws badly.

Can our trucks go home with the crew and still be tracked fairly?

Yes. With thousands of new homes permitted across the county every year, a lot of trades crews start the day at a job site in a new subdivision instead of at the shop, so the truck goes home with the tech. That saves a drive every morning, but it also means the tracker records the Saturday run to the hardware store, and that is usually where crews push back on GPS.

We set the system up so work and personal driving stay separate. Depending on the platform, that means a driver ID reader on the dash so each trip is tied to whoever is driving, an after-hours privacy setting, or a personal-use switch wired where the driver can reach it. We can do the install in the tech's driveway or at the job site before work starts, so nobody loses a morning, and we walk the crew through what the system records and what it does not.

How do you set up a fleet for a plant that has not shipped yet?

We fit each truck the week it lands on your lot, so the whole fleet is live before the first load ships. Several new operations are starting up in this part of the county at once: ALLTAPE's adhesive plant in Saxe Gotha is due to open in July 2026 with 130 jobs, Cardiff Products is making plant-based drinks on 12th Street Extension, Techo-Bloc is opening a landscaping materials plant off Dixiana Road in Cayce in fall 2026, and Wijo announced 170 jobs in Lexington County in October 2025.

A new fleet is the easiest one to get right, because nothing has been installed badly yet. We agree one layout per vehicle type, covering where the tracker sits, how it is powered, where each camera points and how units are named in your software, and then repeat it on every truck and van as it rolls onto the lot. Months later, when the next batch of vehicles arrives, they match the first ones exactly and report the same way.

What do Lexington public fleet managers ask us?

Do you install for a Lexington business with only 1 to 10 vehicles?

Yes. A plumber in Red Bank with three vans gets the same technicians, the same wiring standard and the same testing as a distribution fleet in Saxe Gotha, and a fleet that size is normally finished in one visit at your shop or job site.

Which GPS and camera platforms do you install around West Columbia and Cayce?

Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Geotab, Lytx, Netradyne, Powerfleet, CalAmp and more. That matters in a park like Saxe Gotha, where a carrier may run its own system on its tractors and a customer's system on dedicated trucks, and we fit both to the same standard in the same visit.

Can you install inside a secured distribution center or plant lot?

Yes. We work inside gated yards and plant lots, follow your site's safety rules and sign-in process, and schedule around dock appointments so no truck is pulled off a live door.

Do you install on leased and rental trucks?

Yes. On leased or rental units we use plug-in harnesses and no-cut connections wherever the vehicle allows, so it goes back at lease end without spliced wires, and at turn-in we remove the kit and refit it on whatever unit takes that truck's place.

How far around Lexington do you travel?

The whole county, from Irmo and Seven Oaks down to Red Bank and Gaston and out to Batesburg-Leesville, plus the rest of our South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina service area. Wherever your vehicles are parked is where we do the work.