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Module · free for 30 days on new company accounts

See every truck live and put the tracker to work

Tacho Manager connects to the GPS trackers you already have. Map each device to a truck, open a live map from the Vehicles list, and let the stored track locate rests, draw the route region by region and fill distance gaps on days the card odometer recorded nothing. The tachograph card stays the source of truth.

Company account

GPS tracking is a company-account module: the company enters provider credentials, maps trackers to trucks and opens the live map; a linked driver account only sees the GPS-located regions and pins that reach its payroll view.

Why it matters

Works with the trackers you have

Fifteen provider connectors, from PAJ-GPS and Traccar to Webfleet, Samsara, Geotab, Wialon and the rFMS truck-OEM standard. Enable one or several; each truck is tracked by one device.

Live position in two clicks

A red pin beside each mapped truck in the Vehicles list opens a live map. The marker refreshes every 10 seconds and shows speed, battery, time of the fix and coordinates.

Your history, stored locally

Positions sync into Tacho Manager's own storage every 30 minutes, back to your provider's retention limit. Payroll and reports read local data, so nothing depends on the provider being online.

Distance gaps filled, card figures kept

When per-km pay is on and the card odometer left a day at zero, the truck's GPS distance fills it. Days where the card has a figure are never overridden.

Rests located by GPS

Each daily rest of 9 hours or more is placed where the parked truck actually was, so night-out supplements and the region column reflect the real location, not what was keyed into the tachograph.

Routes region by region

Payroll and the rest summary list the regions the truck passed through, with departure and arrival pins you can open on a map together with their timestamps.

How it works

1

Enable a provider

Go to Modules → GPS Tracking, switch the module on, enable your provider and enter its credentials. Test connection reports how many devices the account holds.

2

Map devices to trucks

The Devices table lists every tracker with its provider, name, IMEI and last position. Pick the truck for each one. One device per truck.

3

Watch live

Open Vehicles → Trucks and click the pin beside a mapped truck, or the Live location button on the truck's page. The map follows the vehicle as new fixes arrive.

4

Let the data flow

Positions sync in the background every 30 minutes. Payroll uses them to locate rests, draw the route and fill distance gaps; the rest summary shows GPS positions for every drive leg.

In detail

Supported providers

PAJ-GPS, Traccar, Wialon, Webfleet, Flespi, Samsara, Geotab, Navixy, Ruptela (FM-Track), Mapon, GPSWOX, Motive (KeepTruckin), rFMS (truck OEM), ABAX and Quartix. Credential fields depend on the provider: email and password, API key, token or OAuth2 client.

What the live view shows

An OpenStreetMap map with a pulsing marker that glides between fixes, polled every 10 seconds. Beneath it: device name, speed in km/h, battery level, time of the last fix and coordinates. Trucks only; trailers have no tracker.

How positions are stored

Each mapped device syncs forward from its last stored point and backfills in 45-day chunks down to the provider's retention floor. Points are thinned to one per minute; gaps over six hours in the last five days are re-fetched.

Payroll distance fill-gaps

With the per-km variant on, GPS distance is summed point to point for each day the driver's card shows that truck, and used only where the card odometer produced no distance. A single jump over 200 km is treated as a glitch and ignored.

Rests, regions and pins

Daily rests of 9 hours or more are located by the parked truck. The region column lists the regions crossed per workday, brief clips of a border region dropped; pins carry timestamps. Regions resolve across 24 European countries.

Card first, always

Country and zone come from the tachograph's own border crossings. A switch in Modules → Payroll, Use GPS tracking data in payroll, reverts payroll to card-only without disabling tracking or the live map.

Questions

Which GPS providers can I connect?

PAJ-GPS, Traccar, Wialon, Webfleet, Flespi, Samsara, Geotab, Navixy, Ruptela, Mapon, GPSWOX, Motive, rFMS, ABAX and Quartix. PAJ-GPS is the connector we run in production; the others follow each provider's documented API, so use Test connection before relying on one.

Can GPS replace the tachograph data?

No. Card activities are always the truth. GPS only locates the card's rests, adds the route regions and fills distance on days the card odometer produced nothing. Where the card has a figure, GPS never changes it.

Does the live map work for trailers?

No. Only trucks can be mapped to a tracker, and the live pin appears only on trucks with a device mapped. Trailers keep their documents and vehicle log.

Can a driver account use GPS tracking?

Not directly: provider setup and the live map are company-only. A driver linked to a company that grants payroll access sees the same GPS-located regions and pins in the payroll view, read-only.

Where are my provider credentials kept?

On the Tacho Manager server, per company account. Passwords, API keys and tokens are write-only in the app: after saving they are never displayed again, and leaving the field blank keeps the stored value.

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