GPX Insights
Asset tracking, supply chain visibility and the GPS and BLE hardware behind them, written by the GPX team.
A foreman walks the job site at 6 a.m. and finds an empty spot where a $2,400 cordless tool kit sat the night before. No alarm, no witness, no dot on a map. By the time he files the loss,
Construction equipment and tool theft drains an estimated $300 million to $1 billion from American job sites every year, with single-item tool recovery rates dropping below 7 percent according to the National Equipment Register and the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in a 6-3 decision, invalidating roughly $175 billion in collections and upending trade flows overnight. Within four days, the White House imposed a replacement 15% global tariff
I’ve watched the same story play out hundreds of times since starting GPX Intelligence. Someone calls us after a painful loss. A stolen trailer, a vanished shipment, equipment that just disappeared from a job site. In that moment, everything about
Smart pallet management is becoming non-negotiable—because pallets, totes, racks, and custom dunnage aren’t “cheap consumables,” they’re mobile inventory that quietly disappears when visibility breaks down. And with cargo theft trends continuing to rise (Overhaul recorded a 33% year-over-year increase in
A single vehicle idling for just one hour burns nearly a gallon of fuel. Multiply that across a 50-truck fleet operating 250 days per year, and you are watching $75,000 evaporate into thin air. Now add unplanned breakdowns, compliance violations,
Last year, cargo theft losses in the United States exceeded $35 billion. Equipment vanishes from job sites. Trailers disappear from distribution yards. High-value shipments go dark somewhere between origin and destination. When operations teams try to locate missing assets using
The global returnable packaging market was valued at USD 122.06 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach USD 218.96 billion by 2032 at an 8.70% CAGR, driven by sustainability mandates, EPR regulations, and the rising cost of one-way packaging.
On a busy jobsite, equipment is constantly moving—from yard to trailer to site,which creates plenty of opportunity for misplacement, unauthorized use, or outright theft. The question isn’t whether you should track assets, but what kind of tracking gives you the
Heavy equipment tracking isn’t really about “seeing dots on a map” — it’s about closing the gap between what’s happening in the field and what the office thinks is happening. With construction equipment theft still estimated to cost the industry
