We install GPS trackers, dash cams and telematics on city, county and town fleets across Mecklenburg County and the counties around it, on site at your yard or motor pool. That covers refuse packers, water and sewer trucks, street crews, fire and police units, and the battery-electric buses Charlotte is adding.
Mecklenburg County counted 1,115,482 residents in the 2020 Census, and the Census Bureau estimates 1,206,285 as of July 2024. Eight municipalities share the county: Charlotte, Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill, Pineville and Stallings. Just over the county lines, the cities of Concord, Gastonia and Monroe and the Union County towns from Indian Trail to Waxhaw run vehicles of their own.
The scale in Charlotte is unusual for the Southeast. The city's Fleet Management Division, part of General Services, services more than 7,000 city and county vehicles and pieces of equipment from seven shops, with the Sweden Road shop handling fire apparatus. Charlotte Fire staffs 77 apparatus full time from 43 firehouses and handled 132,853 incidents in fiscal 2023. Charlotte Water maintains more than 9,300 miles of water and wastewater mains, which puts service trucks in every corner of the county. Next door, Gastonia's Fleet Services Division maintains about 965 vehicles and pieces of equipment.
Transit is a fleet of its own. CATS runs 69 bus routes and operates 18 battery-electric buses, and in June 2025 it announced 69 new Gillig buses, 15 of them battery electric and 54 hybrid, plus 56 new paratransit vehicles for its Special Transportation Service. Its 2024 federal transit profile lists 533 revenue vehicles and 138 service vehicles. The city also owns and operates Charlotte Douglas International Airport, which runs its own ground fleet.
Winter is when the street fleets earn their keep. In late January and early February 2026, NCDOT's Division 10, which covers Mecklenburg, had close to 200 state and contract trucks working at a time, after laying more than 170,000 gallons of brine ahead of an ice storm and again before a foot of snow. CDOT keeps about 4,000 tons of salt on hand and put more than 75 drivers through winter training this season. Those are the days GPS history proves which streets were treated and when.
We install every major platform with the same on-site process, and we document every vehicle we touch.
Units on refuse packers, water and sewer trucks, brine and plow trucks, code enforcement pickups and pool vehicles, placed for a clean signal and wired to a proven ignition source.
Road- and driver-facing cameras on patrol units, refuse trucks, transit and paratransit vehicles, plus backup and side cameras where tight neighborhood streets make reversing the risk.
Geotab, Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Lytx, Netradyne and more. We install to the provider's spec, test each unit before we leave, and can swap one platform for another vehicle by vehicle.
Yes, by breaking it into departments and phases. A city fleet of more than 7,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment is never installed in one push. We plan it department by department, around your shop schedule, and each installer typically completes 15 to 20 vehicles a day on standard installs.
Every vehicle gets a record: unit number, device serial, where it is mounted and photos of the finished install. When a unit goes quiet months later, your team can see exactly what was done and where.
Yes. CATS already runs battery-electric buses and has more on order, and Charlotte Code Enforcement added five Ford F-150 Lightning trucks in February 2024. The city set a goal in 2018 of running its fleet and facilities on zero-carbon sources by 2030, so more of these are coming.
On an electric vehicle we work on the 12-volt side only, use the diagnostic port where the platform supports it, and keep every wire and mount well clear of high-voltage cables and battery packs.
That is how we plan it. We schedule with your shop so units come to us one or two at a time between calls or at shift change, and a standard GPS install is finished in well under an hour. Nothing on the vehicle's emergency lighting or radio wiring is touched.
No. We have no vehicle minimum. A town public works department with six trucks gets the same install, the same testing and the same records as a city department with six hundred.
We work throughout Mecklenburg, Union, Cabarrus and Gaston counties, from Lake Norman down to the South Carolina line.
We work across Mecklenburg and the counties around it, from Uptown Charlotte out to the lake towns and the Union County line, and we come to your yard or motor pool.
We come to you. We work at your motor pool, shop or station, so your vehicles never have to be driven across the county to be installed.
Yes, and fall is the right time to do it. Charlotte-area street fleets were working ice and a foot of snow in early 2026, so we schedule winter equipment first and finish before the season starts.
Yes. The major platforms we install store position data on the device when signal drops and send it once the vehicle reconnects, so the trip history fills back in.
Yes. We pull the old units, install the new ones and confirm each vehicle is reporting before we leave, so you are not paying for two systems longer than you need to.
Yes. We install cameras and tracking on buses, paratransit vans and service vehicles, following the transit agency's and the platform's requirements.
City, county, town, transit or airport fleet, tell us what you run and when units can come off the road, and we will build the schedule around it.
Tell us the departments, unit counts and platform you use, and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
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