We install GPS trackers, dash cameras and Geotab hardware at your yard anywhere in Cobb County — Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Austell, Powder Springs and Acworth. Cobb runs a heavy mix of defense, healthcare, municipal and trades fleets, and each one needs a different install.
Cobb County had 793,345 residents as of mid-2025 and roughly 385,000 people employed across more than 22,000 employer establishments. Marietta sits at the middle of it, at the point where I-75 and I-575 split.
The fleet mix here is unusual because Cobb has a genuine industrial anchor rather than just rooftops. Lockheed Martin's Marietta site supports more than 5,600 Georgia jobs, builds the C-130J Super Hercules and the F-35 centre wing assembly, and has announced another 1,200 Marietta-based positions. Next door, Dobbins Air Reserve Base supports personnel across four services and hosts the 94th Airlift Wing and its C-130s. That combination pulls in a long tail of contractor, logistics and support fleets that would not otherwise be here.
Healthcare is the other anchor. Wellstar Kennestone in Marietta is a Level I trauma centre, and in April 2026 it opened a nine-storey, roughly 300,000 square foot tower at a cost of around $400 million, adding 235 beds. Hospital campuses of that size run their own courier, supply, facilities and patient-transport vehicles.
Public sector fleets in Cobb are substantial in their own right. Cobb County's Fleet Management division maintains 1,728 cars, 464 trucks, 40 motorcycles and 302 pieces of equipment, along with 63 electric vehicles and four electric motorcycles — at an average of 106 vehicles per technician. Cobb County School District runs roughly 1,000 buses at an average fleet age of 11 years. CobbLinc operates 108 revenue vehicles, with 76 in maximum service.
Then there is everything else: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, pest control, medical courier and last-mile delivery, spread across a county of 22,000 businesses.
One honest note, because it affects planning: Cobb's residential building permits are running well below where they were at the start of the decade — 1,787 new units authorized in 2025 against 3,247 in 2021. The trades work here is real, but it is renovation and service work more than new-build volume. We would rather say that than sell you a boom that is not showing up in the data.
We install every major platform Cobb fleets run, at your yard or jobsite rather than at a shop.
Hardwired and OBD trackers on service vans, pickups, box trucks and Class 8 tractors, wired for vehicles that sit through long I-75 backups.
Road-facing, dual-facing and backup cameras. On the Cobb Parkway and South Marietta Parkway corridors, the recurring claim is a low-speed lane-change or a backing incident in a tight lot.
Geotab Authorized installs for Cobb’s defense, healthcare and municipal fleets, plus Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Powerfleet and Quartix. Our Geotab page →
No, and this is the single most consequential fact for a Cobb fleet. The Northwest Corridor Express Lanes run 29.7 miles — I-75 from Akers Mill Road to Hickory Grove Road, and I-575 from I-75 to Sixes Road — and they are restricted to vehicles with six or fewer wheels. Tractor-trailers are prohibited outright, and so is any vehicle towing a trailer.
That means the part of your fleet most affected by congestion is the part that legally cannot use the relief lane. A pickup pulling an equipment trailer is stuck in the general purpose lanes with the tractor-trailers. A bare service van is not.
The lanes are also reversible, which surprises people. Sunday through Friday they run southbound from 1:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., close for reversal until 1:30 p.m., then run northbound from 1:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Saturdays are southbound all day. Access is limited to six I-75 interchanges — I-285, Terrell Mill, Roswell Road, I-575, Big Shanty and Hickory Grove — plus three slip ramps on I-575.
One more change worth knowing: as of 30 September 2025, alternative fuel vehicles no longer travel toll-free on Georgia's express lanes.
Where this lands for us is dispatch and routing data. If half your fleet can use the lanes and half cannot, a single average drive time between two points is meaningless. We set up the reporting so the two groups are distinguishable, because otherwise the numbers hide the problem instead of showing it.
Cobb is one of the 13 counties in Georgia's Clean Air Force programme. For the 2026 registration period, testing applies to 2002–2023 model year gasoline cars and light-duty trucks rated 8,500 lbs GVWR or under.
The two exemptions that matter for fleets are diesel and weight. Vehicles operated exclusively on diesel are exempt, as is anything over 8,500 lbs GVWR. The three most recent model years are exempt, and so are vehicles 25 model years or older. Hybrids and flex-fuel vehicles that burn gasoline are still tested. The test is annual, tied to the registration date, and capped at $25.
The practical effect on a mixed fleet: your heavy diesel trucks are out of scope entirely, while your gasoline service vans and half-tons are in scope every year. Location and mileage history from a telematics platform is the cleanest way to document which unit is garaged in Cobb and when it last ran.
It can. Cobb's zoning code allows heavy equipment and semi tractor-trailers to be parked on gravel in Heavy Industrial districts, provided there is a paved apron running 75 feet in from the right-of-way and appropriate screening. A lot of Cobb yards are set up exactly that way.
For us, a gravel yard means planning the work area rather than assuming a level, clean surface. It changes where we can safely put a jack, where we run cable, and how we protect connectors from grit and standing water. Dust and moisture ingress at the connector is one of the more common causes of a device that works on install day and drops out three months later. We seal and route accordingly, and we would rather know about the surface before the crew arrives.
No. We looked, and we want to be straight about it: Georgia has no statewide idling regulation, and Cobb County's noise ordinance contains no idling time limit, no engine-brake provision and no loading or unloading noise provision. What it does cover is horn use, vehicles in disrepair that create grating or rattling noise, exhaust discharged without an effective muffler, and loudspeakers on trucks.
So idle time in Cobb is not a compliance problem. It is a money problem. Idle hours burn fuel, accumulate engine hours against your maintenance intervals, and shorten the life of the vehicle without adding a mile of useful work. That is a better reason to measure it than a rule nobody is enforcing, and it is how we set up the reporting.
Yes, and those sites come with their own access requirements. Secured and controlled-access facilities around the Lockheed and Dobbins area typically need advance notice, an escort, and a current certificate of insurance on file before a technician gets through the gate. Hospital campuses like Kennestone want the work staged away from ambulance bays and emergency access.
We carry $2 million in insurance and we are used to sending documentation ahead rather than showing up and hoping. Tell us the site requirements when you book and we will handle the paperwork side before the install date, not on it.
We cover Marietta and the whole of Cobb County, plus the northwest metro:
If your trucks are in Cobb or the northwest corridor, we will come to your yard rather than asking you to lose vehicles to a shop visit.
No. The Northwest Corridor Express Lanes are limited to vehicles with six or fewer wheels, and vehicles towing trailers are prohibited. Tractor-trailers and any pickup or van pulling an equipment trailer stay in the general purpose lanes. The lanes are also reversible — southbound early, northbound from 1:30 p.m. — which catches out crews who assume they run both ways.
Gasoline cars and light trucks rated 8,500 lbs GVWR or under, 2002 through 2023 model years for the 2026 registration period. Diesel vehicles are exempt at any weight, as is anything over 8,500 lbs GVWR. The three newest model years and vehicles 25 model years or older are also exempt. Hybrids and flex-fuel vehicles running gasoline are still tested.
We come to you. That is how we do the large majority of our Cobb work — your yard, jobsite, terminal or hospital campus. For most fleets the drive to and from a shop costs more downtime than the install itself.
A straightforward hardwired GPS tracker is typically well under an hour per vehicle once we are set up on site. Dual-facing dash cameras take longer, and Geotab installs using IOX expanders or PTO integration longer still. When we quote a multi-vehicle job we give you a per-day throughput number so you can plan which units are down when.
We are a Geotab Authorized Installer and we also install Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Powerfleet, Quartix and most other major systems. We are brand agnostic — we install and support every major platform, which means our advice is about what actually holds up in a vehicle rather than about what we would like to sell you.
Yes. We batch Cobb rollouts by location and by vehicle type so your operation keeps running — typically working through a yard in sequence and releasing each unit as it finishes. For fleets split between a Marietta yard and satellite locations in Kennesaw or Austell, we normally run the sites on separate days rather than pulling vehicles across the county.
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