A winch truck earns its money pulling, skidding and loading heavy equipment, often in places a crane cannot reach. We wire the winch and PTO into the GPS tracker so every pull is on record with a time and place, for oilfield, rigging, heavy haul and recovery companies across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
A winch truck carries one or more heavy hydraulic winches behind the cab, with a bed and often a gin pole or tail roller to drag or lift loads onto the deck. They are common in the oilfield for moving tanks, skids and rig components, and in rigging, heavy haul and recovery work. The winches are driven by hydraulics from a PTO on the truck transmission.
Chassis wire colors are in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
Winch trucks are usually billed by the hour on location, and long days in remote areas are common. A record of arrival, PTO time and departure supports every ticket, and it shows the office where each truck is in areas where calling the driver is not always easy.
Winch cable, drums, brakes and hydraulic pumps wear with use. Tracked PTO and winch hours let owners schedule cable inspection and replacement and hydraulic service on real use.
Oilfield service companies, rigging and machinery moving contractors, heavy haul carriers and towing companies with winch equipped trucks. Lighter tow trucks are covered on our tow truck tracking page and heavy rotators on our rotator wrecker 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, through the PTO signal and pressure switches on the winch circuit.
Most fleet trackers store data when out of coverage and send it when they reconnect.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, at your yard, on your schedule. Call or text 803-513-1009.
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