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Not GPS tracking. Delivery progress - usually the thing you actually wanted.
A live dot on a map, and knowing whether drop fourteen has gone out yet, are two different things. This page tells them apart honestly.
Fleet management and van tracking usually means a vehicle's live GPS position on a map. Market Run does not do live GPS tracking or telematics. It knows where a round is up to because the driver's app reports each drop as it is made, so a wholesaler sees how many stops are done and how many remain.
Two different questions, told apart honestly
Vehicle tracking and telematics are a real, mature category of software: a box fitted to the van reports its live position continuously, often alongside driving behaviour like harsh braking or idling, fuel use, and mechanical diagnostics. That is genuinely useful for vehicle security, insurance, and managing a fleet as assets. It is also a different job from the one most wholesalers are actually asking about when they search for it.
What most wholesalers want to know at eleven in the morning is not where van three is on a map - it is whether drop fourteen has gone out yet, and how far behind the round is running. That is delivery progress, not vehicle position, and it comes from a different source: the driver's own app reporting each stop as it is completed, with the time and the proof captured there. Market Run builds that picture from the round it already holds, without needing to track the vehicle itself.
Plainly
What it will not do on its own
- It does not show a van's live GPS position on a map.
- It does not monitor driving behaviour, fuel use or vehicle diagnostics.
- It does not replace a telematics system fitted for insurance, security or vehicle maintenance.
- Delivery progress updates when a driver completes a stop in the app, not continuously between stops - it is not a live moving dot.
Questions people ask
- Does Market Run track vans with GPS?
- No. Market Run does not show a van's live GPS position on a map, and is not a telematics product. It knows where a round is up to because the driver's app reports each drop as it is made.
- What is the difference between van tracking and delivery progress?
- Van tracking shows a vehicle's live position on a map, usually as part of a telematics system that also covers driving behaviour and vehicle diagnostics. Delivery progress shows how many drops on a round are done and how many are left, updated each time a driver completes a stop - a different, and for most wholesalers more useful, piece of information.
- How does Market Run know how far through a round a driver is, without GPS?
- The driver's app reports each drop as it is made, with the time and the proof of delivery captured at that stop. That builds an accurate picture of progress through the round without tracking the vehicle's position between stops.
- Is delivery progress enough, or do I also need vehicle tracking?
- That depends what the tracking is for. If the question is "how far through the round is van three", delivery progress answers it. If the need is vehicle security, insurance, or monitoring driving behaviour and fuel use, that is a genuinely different job, and a dedicated telematics system is the right tool for it - Market Run will connect to one already in use rather than trying to replace it.
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