Self-Monitored Vehicle Tracking in South Africa

No. A control room is only needed when you want someone else watching around the clock and coordinating a physical recovery. For day-to-day oversight — where vehicles are, who is speeding, which van left the depot late — The Tracking Co gives the business owner or office manager direct access to the platform. Most fleets run entirely self-monitored and add stolen vehicle recovery only on the vehicles that warrant it.

You still have the live location. Open the platform, share a live location link, and give it to the South African Police Service so they can follow the vehicle. SAPS will act on a location. What you do not get without SVR is a 24/7 control room watching on your behalf or recovery agents dispatched to the scene — The Tracking Co does not dispatch recovery under a self-monitored subscription. SVR can be added at R44 per vehicle per month.

Yes. Stolen vehicle recovery is an add-on to any The Tracking Co subscription at R44 per vehicle per month, or R480 per vehicle per year. It can be added per vehicle rather than across the whole fleet, so a business can put SVR on the two vehicles that carry the most value and leave the rest self-monitored. Adding it does not change the hardware or require a new installation on a hardwired tracker.

Yes. Ask The Tracking Co to enable an admin account on your profile. From there you create as many sub-accounts as you need and control which vehicles each one sees, and whether that person can make changes or only view. A supervisor running four vans sees those four vans and nothing else. Sub-accounts are included in the standard R50 per vehicle per month subscription at no extra cost.

Not on a standard SIM. The Tracking Co fits MTN South African SIMs, and they stop connecting once a vehicle crosses the border. Roaming can be enabled on the same SIM before the vehicle travels — the hardware and the SIM stay as they are. Roaming data is billed month to month at MTN roaming rates for the country the vehicle is in, on top of the subscription. Tell The Tracking Co before the first cross-border trip.

Yes, if someone on the team is technically capable. A tracker needs a connection to the vehicle power supply, and beyond that you can hide it wherever you like in the vehicle. The Tracking Co supplies the wiring diagrams and its technicians will walk an installer through the process. Any auto electrician can also do the job. Self-installing saves the installation cost entirely, and the device is yours either way.

The hardware is yours, so it moves with the business rather than the vehicle. The Tracking Co can remove the unit from the old vehicle and fit it to the replacement, charging only the technician call-out — there is no transfer fee. If the vehicle is sold with the tracker still fitted, that unit is simply cancelled, with no cancellation fee. Your own auto electrician can do the swap instead if you prefer.