We install fleet GPS trackers, dash cameras and telematics for Wilmington-area businesses where the vehicles are kept, across New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties, from Leland and Southport to Hampstead and the beach towns. That includes trades running 1 to 10 vehicles, builders and service companies working the islands, plant and port contractors, and the road and bridge crews rebuilding the routes everyone else depends on.
The growth is on the far side of the river. Brunswick County's population rose 4.7% in the year to July 2025, the sixth-fastest rate of any U.S. county over 20,000 people, and the Wilmington metro as a whole grew 2.6%, seventh in the nation. Census estimates put Brunswick at 174,702 residents, Pender at 72,111 and New Hanover at 245,959. The plumbers, electricians, HVAC companies, roofers and landscapers chasing that growth mostly run 1 to 10 vehicles, and their days now stretch across three counties and at least one bridge.
New Hanover itself is compact, 192 square miles, and built out along its roads to the coast. Service companies spend much of the week on Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Kure Beach, where a bridge is the road on and the road off. A few work on Bald Head Island, where the truck arrives by barge.
Industry sits north of town and along the river. GE Aerospace announced $60 million for its Castle Hayne Road plant in 2026, taking the total past $130 million since 2024. The Port of Wilmington handles grain, wood products, chemicals and fertilizer alongside containers, and the haulers and maintenance contractors that serve the plants and the port run tractors, tankers, dump trucks and service bodies.
Road building will keep its own fleets here for the rest of the decade. Three bridges are being replaced at Wrightsville Beach, the Hampstead Bypass is under construction in Pender County, and the replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, a project of more than $1 billion, is in environmental review. Each brings contractors whose trucks and equipment stay in the area for years.
You choose the platform and we install it, then configure it for what is particular to working here: a lift bridge on the main route, islands with their own rules, and service areas that cross two county lines before lunch.
Hardwired trackers on service vans, pickups and dump trucks, with geofences on the river and beach bridges so waits are labelled for what they are, and battery-powered trackers on trailers and equipment left on an island job for days at a time.
Road-facing and driver-facing cameras for crews running US 17 and US 74 every day, rear cameras on trucks backing down narrow beach-town streets and onto a barge ramp, and driver-facing units where your insurer or your own policy calls for them.
Netradyne, Powerfleet, Geotab, CalAmp, Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Lytx and more, with speed thresholds set by area, after-hours movement alerts, crossing counts per vehicle and a geofence for each county, so reports break a day down by where it was spent.
Because the main crossing is a lift bridge, and sometimes it is up. The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge carries US 17, US 76 and US 421 into Wilmington on a steel vertical-lift span that opened on October 1, 1969. More than 50,000 commuters use it every day. When a tall vessel comes through, the center span rises and traffic waits. Openings have become rarer, 381 in 2019 against 69 over the past year by one local count, but each one still puts a dead stop into the trip record of every truck on the approach.
A tracker reports that faithfully: engine running, vehicle stationary, in the middle of a highway. Unlabelled, it reads as a driver idling. We draw a geofence over the bridge and its approaches, so the stop shows in reports as time inside the bridge zone and, on platforms that allow it, is left out of idle scoring. The same geofence counts crossings per vehicle, and that may matter later. In July 2026 NCDOT turned down a private proposal for the replacement bridge that would have charged up to $2.75 a crossing, but it says it is still pursuing a toll, which would need a change in state law. Nothing is decided. If a toll does come, a year of crossing counts by truck is the figure you will be glad to have.
Plan every trip around one road and the drawbridge's hourly openings. NCDOT is replacing three bridges on the way onto Wrightsville Beach, the Causeway Drive bridge and two on West Salisbury Street, in a $105 million project. Work on the Lees Cut bridge begins in fall 2026, the longer Salisbury Street bridge follows in 2027 and 2028, and Causeway Drive runs from 2028 to 2030. The Heide Trask drawbridge already opens for pleasure boats only on the hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Because of the bridge work, the Coast Guard has proposed holding commercial vessels to the same hourly openings from November 1, 2026 to June 30, 2030, with limited exceptions. That rule was still a proposal when this page was written.
For a contractor with crews on the island, arrival times will bunch around the openings, and a missed slot is expensive. We place one geofence on the drawbridge approach and another on the island, so the platform separates time in the queue from time on the job, and you see which start times work. For vehicles kept on the island we come to them early, before the day's lane closures begin.
It does, and the island's rules give you two settings worth making. Bald Head Island allows gas and diesel vehicles on village roads only with an internal-combustion permit, and only on workdays: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, holidays excluded. Anything outside those hours needs a special use permit. Daily permits are issued at the barge office, and the speed limit across the whole island is 18 mph.
A contractor's truck reaches the island on a barge and often stays for days. On the map that looks like a slow crossing over open water, or a jump from one landing to the other depending on the device, followed by a vehicle that barely moves. That is normal there. We set the speed alert inside the island geofence at 18 mph, a limit ordinary map data does not carry, and an after-hours alert that matches the permit window, so a truck moving at 7 p.m. on a Saturday reaches you as a notification. Both are set during the install and save an argument later.
Most likely because the road has moved and the map has not caught up. NCDOT is building the Hampstead Bypass in stages. Southbound US 17 near Leeward Lane was shifted onto new roadway in late spring 2026, the first segment, from NC 210 to Sloop Point Loop Road, is due in late 2027, and the full 12.6 miles in 2030. Each shift puts trucks on pavement that the map inside a telematics platform may still show as an empty field, or as the old alignment with the old limit.
Speeding alerts depend on that map. When it is behind, a driver holding the posted speed is flagged, or one who is over it is missed. For fleets running US 17 between Wilmington and Hampstead we set a corridor rule with a fixed threshold, so alerts follow the limit you give the system and not the one it guesses. We review it with you after each traffic shift until the bypass is finished.
New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties:
A shop in Leland, a storage lot in Ogden, a job on Carolina Beach: we go to the vehicle, on either side of the river.
Almost always. We come to the shop, the storage lot or the owner's driveway and work through the vehicles in turn, so the ones needed first are done first. Five trucks get the same fused, labelled, tested wiring as sixty, and each is confirmed live on the platform before it goes out.
Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Lytx, Netradyne, Geotab, Powerfleet, CalAmp and more. We are an independent installer and install the system you have bought. On a job where a builder and its subcontractors each use something different, each company's vehicles get that company's platform, in the same visit to the site.
No, it is one job with three stops. We plan the day so each group of vehicles is done where it parks, and we set the platform up with a geofence around each county, so a week's report shows how the hours divided between Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender. For a company deciding where to put its next truck or its next hire, that split is worth having.
We save the alternates in the platform before it happens. During the preservation work from January to May 8, 2024, trucks were detoured by South College Road and Shipyard Boulevard, and the Isabel Holmes Bridge, which already carries about 40,000 vehicles a day, took much of the rest. NCDOT has shown a possible construction start for the replacement bridge in December 2027, a date it says may change. We set up the detour corridors as named geofences, so when a closure comes you compare drive times before and after.
Yes. We install trackers and cameras on service trucks, tankers, dump trucks and tractors at your own yard, and set geofences around the plant and terminal sites you serve, so each vehicle's time there is on record. If a site issues its own vehicle requirements, send them to us before install day and we build the job around them.
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