In the former case, those who have to drive around know that one way to get around the problem is to purloin an entirely illegal GPS jammer. Gary Bojczak may have thought this a sound investment. For, as CBS New York reports , he admitted to investigators that he put one in the truck he drove on behalf of an engineering company called Tilcon. However, Bojczak tended to drive by Newark airport in New Jersey. The enterprising souls there were trying out a new system called Smartpath.
This, according to its maker Honeywell, lets airports "increase airport capacity, decrease air traffic noise, and reduce weather-related delays. For example, in , planes landing at Northeast Philadelphia Airport were losing their GPS signal from 1 mile away from the airport. The FCC agent immediately confiscated the device and destroyed it with a sledgehammer. However, the US trucking association says they have found no evidence to show that large numbers of truck drivers are using GPS jammers, and the Sentinel project found that it was drivers of smaller vehicles like delivery and service vehicles , as well as taxis that were the primary type of employee to use GPS jammers, not truckers.
While your drivers might think the illegal jammers make them invisible, what they do instead is to attract more attention to their behavior. If an employee is using a GPS jammer to disrupt the GPS signal, it will appear on the live tracking map or trip history map as an interrupted or missing trip. Plus you can also create an exception rule that looks for GPS signal faults and triggers an alert or email when GPS interference occurs.
Once you detect an employee has disrupted GPS tracking, you can take appropriate disciplinary measures. You also have a record of the GPS jamming for disciplinary action such as firing the offending employees for cause.
But they do know they are breaking work rules when they use them to hide their locations from your dispatch office during working hours. Employees need to know that the use of these devices can result in more than just the termination of their employment.
Need help setting up your systems to deal with GPS jamming and spoofing? Or call us at weekdays from 8 until 5 Eastern for answers to your questions of a confidential bid. Thousands of people in the UK are using "GPS jammers" that plug into car cigarette lighters and can stop tracking systems used to detect stolen cars, monitor vehicle use or stop drivers working overlong hours, according to new findings from experts.
That could lead to the danger of overtired lorry drivers staying on the roads despite the presence of monitoring equipment, and could also pose a threat if vehicles equipped with the jammers were to go on to airport areas near aircraft which rely on GPS global positioning system for navigation. Yet despite the risks posed by the devices — which are sold over the internet — it is not illegal to import, sell, buy or possess them. It is an offence only under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to "knowingly use" such a device to block GPS signals — though the communications regulator Ofcom is looking to close some of the loopholes.
The growing use of the devices could also torpedo any plans to introduce "pay as you drive" insurance or road toll systems if the vehicle owner was able to block communications with monitoring systems.
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