Outriggers, also called stabilizers, are the legs that swing out and down to level and steady a truck before a boom works. An outrigger sensor tells the GPS tracker when they are deployed. We install outrigger sensors on crane, bucket, digger derrick, wrecker and pump trucks across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
Outriggers going down is the clearest sign that a truck has stopped driving and started working. That one signal answers several questions at once: when the crew arrived and set up, how long the truck was working at that location, and when it packed up to leave.
It also catches a dangerous mistake. Driving away with an outrigger extended can damage the truck, the road and anything nearby. An alert for movement with outriggers out lets someone stop it.
For fleets that bill by the job or report to a utility or general contractor, outrigger time is often the most trusted number on the report, because it reflects physical set up rather than a driver pressing a button.
Most outrigger sensors are proximity or limit switches mounted at the outrigger beam or housing. When the beam is fully retracted, the switch reads one way; when it extends, it reads the other. Some trucks already have outrigger interlocks or indicators wired to the boom controls. Where a usable signal exists, we meter it and may use it through an isolated input. Where it does not, we add a dedicated switch so the truck's own safety system is never touched.
Outriggers live low on the truck, where mud, road salt, rocks and pressure washers hit them every day. Sensors are mounted inside the housing or behind a guard where possible, cables are run in protective loom along the frame, and every connection is sealed. Trucks with four outriggers may be wired so any extended outrigger triggers the input, or with separate inputs if the owner wants to see each one.
Chassis wiring references are in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
Knuckle boom and stiff boom crane trucks, bucket trucks, digger derricks, concrete pumps, rotator wreckers and some aerial lifts. On each of them, outriggers down is the moment work begins. See all applications on our PTO and equipment monitoring page.
This is one of the work truck and equipment applications we wire into GPS trackers. See all of them on our PTO and equipment monitoring page, and find wire colors for your truck in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
We wire PTO monitoring into trackers from all of these brands. Need heavy duty trackers for trucks or heavy equipment? Every brand below makes them, so pick yours and we install it.
Common questions
Yes, with outrigger sensors wired into a tracker input.
Only after metering, through an isolated input, and never in a way that affects the safety system. Otherwise we add our own sensor.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
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