Vehicle tracking hardware
A tracker for each truck.
Plug it in and drive.
Pick trucks from your Fleet Management list. PortaPro checks each one against the manufacturer's fit list before you pay, configures every tracker for your account, and mails them. Push it into the port under the dash and the truck is on the dispatch map within a couple of minutes of pulling out of the yard.
Already a customer? Order from Settings, GPS Tracking, Buy vehicle trackers.
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The device
One plug, no wiring, no shop visit.
The tracker is a Queclink GV500MAP. It is about the size of a garage-door remote, plugs into the 16-pin OBD-II port every light and medium-duty truck has carried since 1996, and takes its power from the truck. It has its own GPS receiver and its own cellular radio, certified on Verizon and AT&T, and the cellular service is included. There is no SIM to source and no data plan to manage.
Because it sits on the truck's data bus, it reads more than position. On trucks the manufacturer has published, that means the VIN, the odometer, the fuel level and the remaining range. Those feed Fleet Management directly: pump-hour and mileage service intervals move on their own, and a fuel entry can be checked against what the truck actually reported.
What it is not: a hardwired install, a dashcam, or a driver-scoring system. It reports where the truck is and what the truck says about itself. PortaPro turns that into live ETAs for customers, an honest dispatch map, and maintenance that keys off real miles.
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Fit verification
We check every truck before you can pay for it.
The buy card reads the year, make and model already on each of your Fleet Management vehicles and looks it up against the manufacturer's tested-vehicle list. You never classify your own truck, and you are never sold a device we cannot vouch for. Three verdicts, three different outcomes.
Your truck's year, make and model is on the manufacturer's tested list.
Goes straight into the cart. It plugs into the port under the dash and reports odometer and fuel as well as location.
Your exact model year is not listed, but the same generation of the truck is.
Goes into the cart. We ask you to confirm you have seen a 16-pin OBD-II port under the dash, and we check the port again before it ships.
The truck is not in our list yet. Heavier trucks often use a 9-pin diagnostic connector instead of OBD-II.
Never charged. Have us check this truck records the request, we look it up by hand, and we follow up within one business day.
A cart, not a form per truck
The card opens with your fleet's tally: how many trucks are verified, how many matched, how many we still need to look at, with an Add all verified link beside it. Browse vehicles shows truck photos and filters by verdict, so “every verified truck with a plate starting in 7” is a filter, a search and one Add all. Five trucks is one checkout, one shipping address, and one payment, with each truck named on the Stripe page.
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After you order
From checkout to a moving dot.
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We configure it for your account
Each tracker is registered to your organization and to the truck you ordered it for before it leaves us. There is no pairing step, no app to download in the cab, and nothing to type in.
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It ships to the address you gave at checkout
Your orders on the GPS Tracking settings page shows the stage: being configured, shipped with the carrier and tracking number, then live once it has reported.
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Plug it in under the dash
The OBD-II port is within reach of the driver's seat on every light and medium truck sold in the US since 1996. Push the tracker in until it seats. That is the whole installation.
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Drive
The tracker wakes with the ignition and reports a fresh location every couple of minutes while the truck is moving. The first report flips the truck to live in PortaPro and starts the monthly service. Nothing is billed for the months a tracker sits in a box.
In the office
The map stops being a guess.
Every pin says where it came from
A bolted tracker, a Samsara feed and a driver's phone all land on the same dispatch map, and each pin is labeled with its source. When a truck has both a tracker and a driver assigned, ETAs prefer the tracker, and fall back to the phone only if the tracker goes quiet.
Customers get a real ETA
On-the-way texts and the live tracking link customers open are calculated from the truck's actual position, not from where the route plan assumed it would be by now.
Maintenance keys off real miles
The odometer the tracker reads updates the vehicle record in Fleet Management, so mileage-based service intervals and inspections come due when the truck says so, not when someone remembers to type in a reading.
Device health you do not have to babysit
The Device health table on the settings page reads healthy, stale or offline against the cadence a plug-in tracker is expected to keep, and an offline tracker raises an alert.
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Already have trackers?
You may not need to buy anything.
Professional trackers from a fleet-GPS provider can usually be re-pointed at PortaPro: Queclink GV series, Teltonika FMB and FMC, Ruptela FM, and Digital Matter devices among them. You keep the hardware and pay only the monthly service. Re-pointing is a manual, per-device job on our side, so it starts with an email to support with the make, exact model, 15-digit IMEI, who provides the SIM, and whether you are still under contract.
Consumer trackers sold with a required subscription, Vyncs, Bouncie, LandAirSea and the like, are locked to the seller's servers and cannot be moved.
If you run Samsara, do not touch the trucks. Paste a read-only API token and your fleet is on the PortaPro map in minutes. You keep paying Samsara and PortaPro never writes to your Samsara account.
Tracking portable units instead? See the battery unit tracking device.
FAQ
Questions operators ask
What is the device?
Will it fit my truck?
What about my Kenworth, Peterbilt or Freightliner?
Can I order for several trucks at once?
What does it cost?
I already have trackers on my trucks. Do I have to buy yours?
What do drivers see?
What happens to the data?
Get Started
See a truck go live on the map.
Book a walkthrough: pick a truck, watch the fit check, and see where the tracker's odometer and fuel show up in Fleet Management.
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