After a storm, the first question is which roads were done. We wire the plow blades and the spreader into the tracker on city, county and contractor trucks, so plow down and spreader on are recorded street by street.
Fleet installs from $65 per vehicle. Testing a few vehicles first? We do pilot installs too.
Each picture shows the part that gets wired into the tracker, circled in red. These are illustrations, not photos of customer trucks. The sections below explain how each one is monitored.
A front plow is raised and lowered by hydraulics. A position switch, or the plow control signal, tells the tracker when the blade is down. The platform then shows plowed streets as the truck drives them, which contractors use to bill and cities use to answer calls.
Yes. A wing plow has its own control and position, and it can go to its own tracker input. That shows where the wing was down, separately from the front blade, which matters on highways where the wing clears the shoulder.
A belly or underbody plow sits between the axles and scrapes packed snow and ice. Its down signal is wired the same way, on its own input, so it shows on the map separately.
A tow plow is a steerable plow on a trailer behind the truck. Its deploy signal is recorded on the truck's tracker, so the platform shows where the second lane was cleared.
The spreader runs on hydraulics. Its on signal shows where salt or sand went down. Spreader controllers with a data connection can also report the spread rate on platforms that support it.
The controller in the cab switches the spreader and sets the rate. Wiring from the controller gives a clean on and off signal, and on supported systems the rate itself.
See our snowplow monitoring page for the full install on a plow truck.
We meter every signal before we use it, so the tracker records the equipment actually working, not a switch that was only requested. Power connections are fused, wiring is secured away from heat and moving parts, and each input is tested with the equipment running before the truck goes back out. Wire colors for the truck side are in our Vehicle Wiring Database. See all the equipment we monitor for the other trucks and equipment we wire in.
Every major tracking platform can record plow and spreader signals, and we wire them into all of them. Need heavy duty trackers for trucks or heavy equipment? Every brand below makes them, so pick yours and we install it.
Common questions
Yes. A plow down signal wired to the tracker records plowed streets as the truck drives them.
Yes. Each can go to its own tracker input.
On supported spreader controllers and platforms, yes. On and off can always be recorded.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, at your yard or job site.
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