GPS tracking
Know where every vehicle is, who is in it, and when it is coming back
Tracking that reads your bookings. Every other fleet tracker shows you a dot on a map and leaves you to work out whose it is.
$99 per tracker, once. $12 per vehicle per month. Both include GST.
The difference
A tracker knows where. Glovebox knows why it matters.
Generic tracking says a vehicle is moving
At 11pm, on a road you do not recognise. You open the booking system in another tab to find out whether that is a problem.
Glovebox says the hire ended at 4pm
Same vehicle, same road. It is three hours overdue, 74 km from the depot, and the distance is growing. That is an alert, not a map you have to read.
And it knows when nothing is wrong
A vehicle sitting in a yard at midnight is not news. One moving with no booking against it is. The difference is the booking data, which is the thing a standalone tracker has never had.
What you get
The map, the alerts, and the receipts
A fleet list that reads as operations
Every vehicle coloured by hire state: on hire, at base, overdue, needs attention, out on a relocation, or gone quiet. Click one for the booking, the customer, the due time and how far it is from where it should be.
The map underneath is NZ aerial imagery from LINZ, so a rural pin is a paddock and a driveway rather than a blank grid.
Sample fleet. The colour is the hire state, not the engine state.
Alerts that match rental risk
Overdue, and whether it is heading back or further away. Moving with no booking and no scheduled relocation. The tracker losing power mid-hire. Going offline, with the last known position and a timestamp. Sustained overspeed rather than a momentary spike. Low battery, before it becomes a callout.
In-app and by email. Text messages are reserved for the two that cannot wait, overdue and unauthorised movement, with a monthly cap per vehicle so a faulty tracker cannot run up a bill.
Sample data. Each one names the vehicle, the problem and where.
A route on every booking
The trip as it happened: the route, a day-by-day log, distance, top speed and where it stopped. Distance is cross-checked against the odometer readings taken at handover, so over-mileage surfaces at check-in instead of a week later. Export it as a PDF when you need to put it in front of someone.
This is the part that ends arguments. Not because it wins them, but because there is nothing left to argue about.
Sample hire. The tracker and the odometer agree to within 3 km.
Privacy, and the law
You have to tell your hirers. We think that is fine.
Tracking a vehicle someone has hired collects personal information about them, and the Privacy Act 2020 says you must be open about it. In practice that means the rental agreement tells them the vehicle is tracked, what is recorded, and what you use it for. Glovebox provides a clause for that, so it is not a piece of drafting you have to commission.
Operators sometimes worry this will cost them bookings. It generally does not. Customers expect a rental car to be tracked; what they object to is finding out afterwards.
There is no audio, and there will not be. The tracker records position, speed and whether it has power. It does not listen, and it cannot be made to.
What it costs
$99 per tracker, paid once, which covers the unit and its SIM. There is no separate data bill. Then $12 per vehicle per month for the tracking itself, added to your Glovebox subscription rather than arriving as a second invoice. Both figures include GST.
A ten-vehicle operator pays $990 once and $120 a month. Commercial fleet tracking in New Zealand generally runs between $25 and $60 per vehicle per month.
GPS tracking is a Glovebox module. The hardware is sold to Glovebox operators to fit to their own fleet; it is not a standalone product.