We install fleet GPS, dash cameras and telematics on site in North Charleston, SC, for drayage carriers working Leatherman Terminal, manufacturers and suppliers along Palmetto Commerce Parkway, and trades businesses running 1 to 10 vehicles. We come to your yard, fit every major platform, and wire each truck for the way it actually moves through this city.
Container work here has moved onto the old Navy base. The Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal opened there in April 2021 with a 1,400-foot berth sized for 20,000-TEU ships; its first phase added 700,000 TEUs of yearly capacity, and full buildout is planned at 2.4 million. Trucks reach it on the four-mile Port Access Road straight off I-26. Upriver, SC Ports agreed in 2024 to buy the roughly 280-acre former WestRock paper mill beside North Charleston Terminal so that terminal can grow too. Drayage carriers, chassis and container repair crews, and the warehouses that unload those boxes make up a large share of the trucks we fit around the city.
Aircraft and vans are built here. Boeing moved all 787 Dreamliner final assembly to its North Charleston site in 2021, and Mercedes-Benz Vans builds the next-generation electric eSprinter at its Palmetto Commerce Park plant, where that production started in the second half of 2023. Those plants pull in parts runners, tooling and service vans, and contract logistics fleets. The Crosspoint industrial park, going up on about 335 acres between I-26 and Highway 78, is being marketed at more than 3 million square feet for aerospace, automotive and logistics tenants.
The rest of the former base is filling back in. The Navy Yard Industrial Campus holds 40-plus companies on 100 acres, and the city's plans for Navy Yard Charleston and Battery Park together call for more than 4,000 new homes plus commercial space. That building work, on top of everyday service calls from Park Circle to Ladson, keeps electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, pest control crews, landscapers, couriers and tow operators on the road. Plenty of those businesses run 1 to 10 vehicles, and they get the same hardware and standards as a hundred-truck carrier.
Larger fleets round it out: regional and national carriers that stage trucks near the I-26 and I-526 split, construction and equipment rental outfits, utility contractors, healthcare transport and linen services, and national service fleets whose head office picked a platform and needs local hands to put it in. City and county vehicles have their own page; this one is about the businesses that keep North Charleston's freight and service work moving.
Every major platform, installed at your yard and tested on the vehicle before we leave.
Hardwired trackers on day cabs, service trucks and vans, with geofences drawn for Leatherman Terminal, North Charleston Terminal and your own yard so a terminal turn and a customer delivery read as separate stops.
Road-facing and driver-facing cameras mounted and aimed for heavy merges like Ashley Phosphate Road at I-26, plus backup cameras for box trucks and vans working the tight dock courts on the old base.
Engine data, electric van charge data where your platform supports that model, PTO and door inputs, and dispatch or ELD links set up and checked before the truck goes back to work.
They make the ignition source the most important wire in the truck. A day cab shuttling between a warehouse, the Port Access Road and the Leatherman gate can start and stop many times in a shift, often creeping in a queue, and a tracker powered from the wrong circuit will merge those moves into one long trip or chop one move into several. We tap a true switched feed, confirm the device wakes and sleeps with the key, and drive the truck before we sign off.
Container stacks and crane structures also sit right where your trucks wait. We place GPS antennas with the clearest sky view the cab allows instead of tucking them low behind the dash, and we set up terminal and yard geofences with you so time at each gate comes out of the data rather than a driver's memory. When the Navy Base Intermodal Facility opens with its dedicated one-mile drayage road to Leatherman, adding that gate is a short change, not a new install.
It fills up with idle time the driver could not avoid, unless the system is set up for it. North Charleston lives with freight rail: crossings such as Rivers Avenue at Durant Avenue, East Montague Avenue, Spruill Avenue and Ashley Phosphate Road have been reported blocked for 30 minutes at rush hour, and the city is now studying overpasses at Azalea Drive and Stromboli Avenue and at Virginia Avenue and Noisette Boulevard because more container trains are expected once the Navy Base Intermodal Facility is running.
So we wire idle detection to actual engine run rather than a key-on signal, and help you set crossing-zone rules on your platform so a 25-minute train does not trip the same alert as a truck left running over lunch. A road-facing camera clip of the stopped train is also the quickest way for a 1 to 10 vehicle service business to show a customer why the van was late.
Yes. The eSprinter is built on Palmetto Commerce Parkway, so it is a van North Charleston fleets are likely to meet. An electric van has no running engine to watch and a 12-volt auxiliary battery that carries every accessory while the van sits parked, so the old habits of tapping any ignition wire and reading idle time do not carry over.
We keep well clear of the high-voltage system, power the tracker from a circuit that follows the van's ready state, check how the device sleeps on the 12-volt side, and confirm your platform reads that model's charge and range data before hardware goes in. Camera wiring follows the same rule, so a parked van is not flat by morning.
High enough to see across lanes and inside the wiper sweep, because that interchange has a crash record. State Department of Public Safety figures for 2011 to 2015 ranked Ashley Phosphate Road at I-26 first in the tri-county with 629 crashes, about one every three days, with the I-26 and I-526 junction and several Rivers Avenue intersections also on the list. The Palmetto Commerce Interchange opened in November 2025 to ease Ashley Phosphate, but that stretch of I-26 still carries around 102,000 vehicles a day.
When a car cuts across three lanes for an exit, the footage has to show it plainly. We mount road-facing lenses below the tint band, level and aim them on the truck itself, and wire them to hold power long enough to save an event after the key goes off. Where your policy calls for driver-facing cameras we add those too, and we walk drivers through what is recorded before their first shift.
We work throughout Charleston County, Berkeley County and Dorchester County:
We cover North Charleston across Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, from the Navy base terminals to Palmetto Commerce Parkway, and we come to your yard.
Yes. A Park Circle electrician with three vans or a Ladson landscaper with eight trucks gets the same technicians, the same wiring standard and the same road test as a port carrier, done in one visit at your shop or job site. Most businesses that size want trackers plus road-facing cameras, and we fit and check both the same day.
Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Geotab, Lytx, Netradyne, Powerfleet, CalAmp and more. Around the port a tractor sometimes carries two systems, one the carrier chose and one a shipper or leasing company asked for, and we install both on the same truck with clean, separate power so neither one drops out.
Yes. We check the existing tracker install first, fix any loose or poorly fused power we find, and then wire the camera on its own protected circuit so one device never takes the other down. Where your platform pairs cameras with its trackers, we link them and confirm video shows up against the right vehicle.
A vehicle list with year, make and model, which platform you are on or moving to, and where the vehicles will be parked. If the hardware ships to you, we confirm counts before we roll so nothing is missing when we arrive.
Yes. Supplier fleets here run parts vans, box trucks and service pickups between their own buildings and the plants they feed. We work inside your lot under your site's safety and visitor rules, and plan the order of vehicles with your shipping lead so the trucks you need that day stay on the road.
Tell us what you run, from one service van to a yard of day cabs, and we will plan the install around how your trucks move through North Charleston.
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