When the job site eats hardware
Sealed heavy-duty tracking for excavators, loaders, and off-road equipment. Built to survive the work.
Why GO Rugged
Real engine hours land automatically, so service intervals and utilization run on the machine's own count.
Yards, jobs, and everything in between, with geofence alerts on movement.
See which machines earn and which ones sit, before you rent another one.
Catch issues early and protect uptime on your highest-value assets.
After-hours movement triggers instant alerts.
Built for Harsh Environments
A sealed build and a harness matched to your machine, installed and verified before you rely on it.
Locking harness seals stand up to pressure-washing and weather.
Matched to your equipment before install, so power and ground are right the first time.
Six short beeps at power-up confirm it started clean, so you know it is live before the machine goes back to work.
Our team confirms it is talking to your database and reading the machine before you see a single report.
The numbers behind "rugged": -40 to 85 C operating range, GPS + GLONASS positioning, g-force monitoring with accident detection, and over-the-air firmware updates.
Uptime & Health
GO Rugged reads engine and system diagnostics straight off the equipment, so a warning becomes planned service instead of a machine stranded at the far end of the site.
A closer look
GO Rugged brings the same MyGeotab tracking to the machines and trailers that live outdoors, off-road, and off-highway.
A waterproof, dustproof, shock-resistant housing takes pressure washing, mud, and constant vibration.
A hard-wired install keeps it on equipment that has no diagnostic port to plug into.
It pulls engine data straight off the equipment's own bus, so faults and run-time come from the machine, not a manual log.
It wires into the equipment's own power, so it reports for the long haul, on-road or off.
Yellow iron and trailers show up beside your trucks in one MyGeotab view.
Location history and geofences recover equipment that walks off a remote site.
Built for off-highway, sealed to keep reporting where standard trackers quit.
Planned Maintenance
Reminders fire on real engine hours and usage, so heavy assets get serviced on schedule and hold their value, with no clipboard or spreadsheet in sight.
Iron That Reports In
Hours, faults, and location, logged by the machine itself and carried from site to site.
One Platform
GO Rugged equipment shows up in MyGeotab right beside your GO-tracked vehicles and GO Anywhere assets. One login, one set of reports, one system for the whole operation.
The Payback
Savings, fuel, and stop-time roll up from every machine wearing a GO Rugged — in the same reports your on-road fleet already uses.
GO RuggedReporting in from the machines that never see pavement.
Match the Hardware
One operation, one platform. Match each asset to the device built for it, then watch them all report into the same MyGeotab.
Not sure how to cover a mixed yard? Talk to a specialist and we will match devices to every asset you run.
Beyond the cell network
The IOX port on GO Rugged is what makes it a platform instead of a rugged box with a SIM.
The IOX-SATIRDv2 adds Iridium satellite connectivity for equipment that works past the edge of cellular: pipelines, forestry blocks, remote pits. Location and critical data keep flowing when there are no bars at all.
The IOX-ALERT is a physical button for the operator working alone at the far end of the site. Press it, and the alert lands with the people who need to move.
Pair GO9 Rugged with the rugged IOX-COLD for refrigerated trailers: live cargo temperature for up to 3 zones, refrigeration engine status, and door-sensor status on the map, with exportable history for compliance evidence.
One device family, one platform. The add-ons bolt onto what is already installed. That reach is why oil and gas fleets run GO Rugged past the last bar of signal.
IOX in practice
An auxiliary camera plugs in through IOX, no second platform required.
Who runs it
Standard telematics dies in these environments. GO Rugged is sealed for them and reports through them.
Excavators, dozers, and loaders that move between job sites and the yard.
Pumps, rigs, and support equipment working past the last bar of cell signal.
Tractors, harvesters, and implements run hard through planting and harvest.
Bucket trucks, digger derricks, and gensets staged across a service territory.
Haul trucks and crushers earning their hours in the pit, day and night.
Graders, sweepers, and loaders across DOT yards and municipal depots.
Beyond Location
GO Rugged reads the machine, not just the map pin. Dump cycles, PTO hours, and after-hours movement come straight off the harness.
Questions
It is a sealed, IP68 and IP69K rated device built for off-road equipment and harsh sites where a standard device would not survive.
Yes. Engine hours and usage feed maintenance schedules so heavy assets get serviced on real use.
Yes. GO Rugged reports into the same platform as your GO devices and asset trackers.
No. It is rated for exactly that: high-pressure, high-temperature washdowns. Wash the machine like you mean it.
That is a different device on the same map. Non-powered or rarely-run assets get a battery-powered GO Anywhere; the running iron gets GO Rugged. Both report into the same MyGeotab, so the yard walk happens on a screen.
Two ways. On its own, the device stores data and sends it when coverage returns. For operations that cannot wait, the IOX-SATIRDv2 add-on moves critical data over Iridium satellite.
No. GO Rugged installs on 12V and 24V equipment with the approved weatherproof harness for your machine, and we confirm the exact harness by make and model before it ships.
“We are tracking a little over three-thousand assets; from pickups to off-road equipment, trailers, generators, compressors. Each type requires different reporting metrics. All our reports, dashboards and live alerts are personalized and formatted according to asset type and each of our users’ independent needs. This has been a game changer!”KS Energy, New Berlin, WI
Keep exploring
Inside MyGeotab
Maintenance schedules ride with the asset, from oil life to electrical insights.
Illustrative MyGeotab screen with fictional data
We will confirm the right harness and configuration for your equipment before anything ships.
