How it works in one minute

• Tags. Each tag sends a short Bluetooth signal that says which tool it's on, its battery level, and whether it came off. Tags have no GPS and no cellular plan.
• The unit in each truck. It listens for the tags on and near the truck, knows where the truck is, and reports over cellular. Where a tool was last seen is where its truck was when the unit last heard it.
• Each truck's list. You choose which tools ride on which truck. That list is what the unit checks against.
• Texts, the web app, and the Android app. Crew leads get texts and need nothing else. Owners and managers see every truck on the web at loadoutguard.com and in the Android app.

Here's what Carlos, the crew lead on Truck 3, might see in a day. Every text below is word for word what LoadoutGuard sends; Tally is the assistant's name, which you can change in Settings → Assistant.

1. 6:55 AM, LoadoutGuard texts Carlos

   LoadoutGuard: Morning check for Truck 3: 12 of 13 aboard. Missing Hedge Trimmer #H-014, last heard in the yard at 6:41 AM. Reply OK if you're leaving it. - Tally

2. 6:57 AM, Carlos replies

   grabbing it

3. 7:04 AM, LoadoutGuard texts Carlos

   LoadoutGuard: Truck 3 just left the yard with 1 blower. You usually take 2 on Tuesdays. Blower #B-022 was last heard in the yard at 6:52 AM. Reply OK if that's on purpose. - Tally

4. 7:05 AM, Carlos replies

   ok, B-022 is in the shop

5. 4:19 PM, LoadoutGuard texts Carlos

   LoadoutGuard: Looks like Blower #B-027 got left at 148 Oak Ridge Dr. Truck 3 pulled out at 4:17 PM. Map: https://osm.org/go/ZSNqUmsA_--?m Reply 1 if you're going back, or tell me what happened.

6. 4:20 PM, Carlos replies

   1

7. 4:24 PM, LoadoutGuard texts Carlos

   LoadoutGuard: Blower #B-027 is back on Truck 3. 4:24 PM.

On a day when everything is aboard and nothing gets left, Carlos gets no texts at all. What each text means and every reply it understands are on What each text means.

1. The truck parks at a job. The unit notes which tools are aboard.
2. The truck pulls away. Tools that ride along keep answering.
3. A portable tool that was aboard when the truck arrived and isn't heard leaving gets flagged after a short wait (2 minutes unless you change it in Settings → Alert rules).
4. The crew lead gets one text for that departure, however many tools it names, with the place, the time, and a map link.
5. When the unit hears the tool back on the truck, the alert closes as recovered and the crew lead is told.
6. If the crew lead doesn't answer within 10 minutes (also in Alert rules), managers who get texts hear about it.

Crew leads

Texts about their own truck only: a tool left behind and back aboard, the morning check, leaving the yard short, a tool riding on another truck, an unplugged unit, and, if you use after-hours mode, "Is that you?" at night. They sign up for texts themselves from a link you send. The app is optional.

Managers and owners

Everything on the dashboard and in the app. Each person picks push, text, or email for each kind of alert in Settings → Notifications, and sets their own quiet hours there. Texts to you need your own sign-up, on the same page.

Crew members

Nothing. They load the truck and do the job. Nobody needs a login.

Every tool is marked portable or fixed. Portable tools (mowers, blowers, trimmers, surface cleaners, ladders) get left-behind texts. Fixed equipment (a skid-mounted washer, a tank, a mounted hose reel) is counted so you know what's on which truck, but never sends a left-behind text.

• It can only say where a tool was last heard by one of your trucks. Once no unit hears it, it can't follow it.
• If a truck's unit is offline, that truck's tools show when they were last checked, not whether they're aboard now.
• It keeps track of company equipment, not people. It knows where a blower was last heard, not who carried it.