Myrtle Beach is a service-fleet economy with a seasonal spike unlike anywhere else in our territory — and no interstate serving it. We install GPS, cameras and Geotab telematics on hospitality, landscaping, turf and delivery fleets, scheduled for the shoulder season when your trucks can actually come off the road.
Horry County is one of the fastest-growing places in the country — the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro grew 3.8% in 2023–24, third fastest of any US metro, and the county has gone from 227,193 residents in 2014 to 317,749 in 2024. County projections put it at 584,500 by 2040.
But the resident number understates the load on local fleets. The county's own Solid Waste Authority calculates the equivalent full-time tourist population at roughly 96.5% of the resident population — meaning the area effectively operates at about double its census figure. In 2025, 18.2 million visitors spent $13.3 billion, supporting more than 82,000 jobs across roughly 425 hotels and 157,000 accommodation units, a lodging inventory comparable to Las Vegas.
That produces a fleet mix weighted almost entirely toward service rather than freight. Horry County's largest employment sectors are Accommodation and Food Services at 35,842 jobs, Retail Trade at 29,610 and Health Care at 20,631. The largest employers are the Horry County School District, Coastal Carolina University, Horry County Government, Conway Medical Center, McLeod Seacoast and Grand Strand Regional Medical Center — institutional fleets, not trucking companies. Kyocera AVX at about 1,000 employees is the county's largest industrial employer.
One more distinctly local category: 80-plus golf courses and 30 mini golf courses hosting roughly 2.7 million rounds a year, which supports an unusually dense base of turf maintenance equipment, utility vehicles and shuttle operations.
We install every major platform across hospitality, landscaping, turf, municipal and delivery fleets.
GPS on service vans, shuttle vehicles, landscaping trucks, turf equipment and municipal fleets.
Dash and backup cameras for shuttles, delivery vehicles and equipment trailers operating in heavy pedestrian areas.
Geotab Authorized installs plus Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect and Quartix. Our Geotab page →
This is the single most important scheduling fact in this market. From spring through late summer, hospitality, landscaping, shuttle and delivery fleets here run at capacity with a doubled effective population. Taking vehicles out of service during that window is expensive in a way it simply isn't in Columbia or Greenville.
We plan Grand Strand work for the shoulder season. If you're considering telematics for next season, the time to talk is autumn or winter — not May.
Myrtle Beach has no interstate highway serving it directly. Freight and service traffic move on US 501 westbound and US 17 north-south, with SC 31 Carolina Bays Parkway and SC 22 Conway Bypass carrying local and bypass loads. I-95 and I-20 are under 50 miles away, and I-73 remains a planning-stage project.
For telematics configuration, that means speed and harsh-event thresholds tuned for interstate driving will misfire constantly. US 17 through the Strand in July is a fundamentally different driving environment than an interstate, and your alerts should reflect that or drivers will stop reading them.
Horry County has two four-lane reversal routes: SC 544 to US 378, and SC 22 Conway Bypass to SC 576 near Marion County. Fleets here plan for lane-reversal events as a normal part of the operating year, not an exception. Vehicle location during evacuation and re-entry is the practical use case.
Landscaping and turf equipment on the Grand Strand sits outside, near salt air, year round. Sealed connections and careful grounding matter more here than on a van that garages indoors. It's a small difference in install technique that shows up two years later as either a working device or a callback.
South Carolina requires no safety or emissions inspection, and the statewide 10-minute commercial diesel idling limit applies here as everywhere else in the state.
We work the full Grand Strand and inland Horry County:
…across Horry and Georgetown counties. We come to your property or yard.
Autumn through early spring, without question. From roughly April through September the Grand Strand runs at close to double its resident population and service fleets are at capacity. Taking vehicles offline then is far more costly than the install. Plan next season's telematics in the off-season.
Yes. With 80-plus golf courses in the area, turf equipment and utility vehicles are a routine part of our Grand Strand work. These often have different power systems than road vehicles, which affects hardware selection and wiring approach.
It matters a lot for configuration. Default speed and harsh-braking thresholds are usually calibrated for interstate driving and will generate constant false alerts on US 17 through the Strand in season. We'll help you set thresholds against your actual routes so the reports stay credible with drivers.
Yes, and we install it differently. Equipment stored outside near salt air needs sealed connectors and properly protected splices. It's a modest difference in method that determines whether the device is still reporting in two years.
No. South Carolina requires neither safety nor emissions inspection. Federal FMCSA annual inspection rules still apply to commercial motor vehicles.
Planning for next season? Autumn and winter are the right time to get this done.
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