GPS & Camera Installation in Florence, South Carolina Call or text: 803-513-1009  ·  info@apisignalcorp.com
Serving City of Florence & Pee Dee county fleets

Municipal Fleet GPS & Camera Installer in Florence, SC

We install GPS tracking, dash and backup cameras and telematics on City of Florence, Florence County, Marion, Dillon and Williamsburg County public fleets, at your garage, station or yard, on every major platform.

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Florence-Area Public Fleets

Which public fleets do we install for around Florence?

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The City of Florence runs one of the larger municipal fleets in the Pee Dee. Its Public Works Equipment Maintenance Division operates the city garage on South McCurdy Road and maintains roughly 900 vehicles and pieces of equipment. Sanitation handles weekly residential collection and dumpster service for more than 500 commercial customers, and in August 2026 it put the city's first 11-yard rear-loader recycling truck into service, with a second on order. Beautification and Facilities adds parks, street maintenance, mosquito control and animal shelter units to the list.

Florence Utilities is growing. The City draws from the Great Pee Dee River at the Frank E. Willis Pee Dee Regional Water Treatment Plant, rated at 10 million gallons a day, and in August 2024 City Council voted 6-0 to issue a $270 million bond, the second of three phases, to expand the surface water and wastewater plants and reroute sewer under Jeffries Creek. More plant and more pipe means more service trucks and equipment on the road every day.

Public safety is a large share of the work. Florence Fire runs six stations over about 21 square miles and answers around 4,000 calls a year. Florence Police runs four patrol squads on 12-hour shifts plus a Traffic Team and K9. On the county side, Florence County EMS keeps at least ten advanced life support ambulances staffed at all times from seven stations and logged more than 28,000 incidents in 2023. The Florence County Sheriff's Office put body cameras in service in 2021 with weekly supervisory review of the footage.

The fleets around Florence are regional by nature. The Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority, based on South Stadium Road since 1974 and the first regional transit authority in South Carolina, runs 47 routes across six counties including Florence, Marion and Dillon, carries more than 450,000 trips a year and has been fare-free since August 2025. I-20 ends at I-95 in Florence, so deputies, ambulances and road crews spend real time on interstate shoulders, and Dillon County's Inland Port sits right off I-95 at exit 190. Further south, Williamsburg County's fleets work out of Kingstree on the Black River.

What We Install in Florence

Built for Pee Dee public fleets

We fit every major platform, including Geotab, Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Lytx, Netradyne, Powerfleet and CalAmp, with twelve-volt work that survives rural roads and river water.

GPS Fleet Tracking

Hardwired tracking on packers, rear-loaders, utility service trucks, patrol units and ambulances, OBD units on inspector and pool cars, and battery-powered trackers on portable pumps, generators, mowers and trailers that get moved around during river flood events.

Dash & Backup Cameras

Road-facing and driver-facing cameras, plus backup and side cameras on the rear-loaders and dumpster trucks that reverse down residential streets, and on transit buses where the footage matters when a rider or a driver files a complaint.

Telematics & Integrations

Engine data, PTO and body-in-motion inputs, and connections to the maintenance software your garage already uses, so the data lands against the VIN and stays with the vehicle when a unit is replaced or reassigned.

Florence-Specific Considerations

What makes public fleet installs around Florence different?

Will the devices survive a truck that works flooded Pee Dee roads?

Yes, if they are mounted with water in mind, and that is how we fit them here. This is river country: Hurricane Matthew put about four feet of water down the streets of Nichols in 2016 where the Lumber and Little Pee Dee meet, Hurricane Florence followed in 2018, and in October 2015 Williamsburg County counted 53 flooded roads while the Black River rose at Kingstree. The trucks that go out in those conditions are exactly the ones you most need to see on a map.

We mount the tracking unit high under the dash, loop the harness up away from the floor, and use sealed connectors wherever a splice could sit in standing water. Portable pumps and generators that get staged at low spots get their own battery-powered asset trackers, so you know where every piece of equipment ended up when the water goes down.

Mounting above the flood lineUtility truck towing a portable pumpRoad cameraGPS unit highunder dashHarness looped up,sealed connectorsRear cameraBattery assettracker on pumpFlood water line

What does GPS show on a take-home police car?

It shows where the car is, on and off duty, and that is why the policy conversation should happen before the install. Florence Police offers officers a take-home vehicle within 30 miles of the City Center, which means patrol cars park overnight in driveways across Florence County and into neighboring counties.

Most departments settle this with clear rules on who can view location data and when, and by using the data to coach and to protect officers rather than to catch them out. For the install itself, we schedule around shift change so a car is only off the road for the time the work takes, and we wire it so the tracker, the in-car camera and the emergency lighting do not fight each other for power.

How do you fit a garage that already looks after 900 units?

We work inside your maintenance schedule instead of adding a second one. When the Equipment Maintenance Division is already looking after roughly 900 vehicles and pieces of equipment, the least disruptive time to fit a tracker is when the unit is already down for service.

Give us the service calendar and we will match installs to it, working in the garage bay or the yard alongside your mechanics. We label every device and harness, keep an install sheet by VIN, and leave the device where your technicians can reach it, so the garage can pull and move a unit when a truck is retired without waiting on anyone.

Can cameras go on transit buses that already run a rider tracking system?

Yes. PDRTA already publishes live bus locations to riders, and a camera system can go in alongside that without disturbing it, as long as the power and mounting are planned around the equipment already on board.

With 47 routes spread over six counties, new buses arriving through grant funding and fare-free service drawing riders, buses cannot sit out of service for long. We fit cameras and telematics on site at the depot, in the hours a bus is not scheduled, and we check the existing rider tracking still reports before the bus goes back out.

Cameras alongside rider trackingTransit bus, fitted at the depot between runsExisting ridertracking (left alone)Interior cameraForward cameraTelematics unitPower plannedaround what isalready on boardDepot yardCheck ridertracking reportsbefore it rolls
Florence-Area Coverage

Where do we install around Florence?

We work throughout Florence County, Marion County, Dillon County and Williamsburg County:

Downtown Florence
West Florence
Timmonsville
Lake City
Johnsonville
Pamplico
Marion
Mullins
Nichols
Dillon
Latta
Kingstree

We work throughout Florence, Marion, Dillon and Williamsburg counties, and we come to your yard, station or motor pool.

Questions From Florence Fleet Managers

What do Florence public fleet managers ask us?

Can you install on sanitation trucks without pulling them off a route?

Yes. We fit rear-loaders, dumpster trucks and yard waste units before roll-out, after the last dump, or on the days a truck is not scheduled, and we work a few units at a time so the division is never down more than a unit or two.

Do you install on fire apparatus and ambulances as well as cars?

Yes. We wire engines, tankers, brush trucks and ambulances with the extra care those electrical systems need, keeping trackers and cameras off the circuits that run lights, sirens and patient compartment equipment.

Can deputies and ambulances working I-95 and I-20 have cameras that record the shoulder?

Yes. We fit road-facing and rear-facing cameras so the footage covers what happens behind a unit stopped on the shoulder, which is where much of the risk sits on a busy interstate junction.

We bought the hardware through a state contract. Will you still install it?

Yes. We install hardware you already own on any major platform, and we also move units from retired vehicles to their replacements so the history stays with the fleet.

Can the county and a town schedule installs at the same time?

Yes. We regularly plan work that covers the county yard one day and a town motor pool in Lake City, Mullins or Kingstree the next, so each department keeps its own quote and paperwork while the installs run in one trip.

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