Outage Response, Dispatched

From One Live Map

When the lights go out, your fleet is the response. Geotab gives dispatch a live picture of every crew.

  • Live visibility across your entire service territory
  • Faster storm and outage response with closest-crew dispatch
  • Safety and compliance accountability for crews

Storm-Ready

The Territory, Live, on One Screen

Normal days run tighter and storm days run calmer when dispatch can see everything.

Closest-crew dispatch

Send the nearest qualified crew and shave minutes off restoration.

After-hours and call-out visibility

See who is already moving and who has not answered yet, with a timestamp on every call-out.

Fleet health for critical units

Bucket trucks and diggers ready when the call comes.

Crew safety accountability

Seatbelt, speeding, and harsh-event visibility that protects crews on brutal shifts.

What Changes

Storm-Ready Trucks and Crews You Can Account For

Critical trucks ready

Fault codes and hours-based reminders keep bucket trucks and diggers in service, not in the shop when the call comes.

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Fewer at-risk drivers

Geotab's Collision Risk is a predictive safety model running on 6M+ connected vehicles, and it flags at-risk drivers 20% more effectively than a scorecard alone (Geotab, 2026).

Audit-ready records

Storm response documented for regulators and leadership.

Our Advice

What We Typically Install for a Utility Fleet

01
Bucket trucks, diggers, and crew vehicles

GO9 or Next-Gen GO: territory map, faults, seatbelt and speed visibility. Plug it into the port, no installer visit.

02
Generators, light towers, and staged equipment

GO Anywhere battery trackers, three to five years per charge, no wiring.

03
Storm-duty and long-shift vehicles

GO Focus Plus AI cameras: in-cab fatigue alerts, and footage that exonerates the crew.

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We configure the zones, alert rules, and storm-mode reports before you need them. The middle of an outage is the wrong time to build a dashboard.

The Real Problems

Three Problems Every Utility Ops Manager Owns

01
Storm accountability

Who responded, where, and when, on the record for the after-action review.

02
Crew safety on brutal shifts

In-cab alerts catch fatigue in the moment: 35% fewer injury crashes when event video is paired with coaching (J.J. Keller, 2023).

03
Ready equipment, found fast

Battery trackers keep staged equipment on the map, engine hours keep service honest.

Built for the territory

What We Set up for Utility Fleets

The live map is the start. These are the zones, rules, and reports we configure so a storm night runs on data, not radio traffic.

Configuration

Configured for the Territory, District by District

Need a threshold changed before storm season? You call your team here and it is done, not a ticket into a vendor queue.

Questions

Utilities Fleet FAQ

Can Geotab support storm and outage response?

Live location and routing help you stage crews and respond faster during storms and outages.

Does it track specialized equipment?

Yes. Bucket trucks, digger derricks, and trailers all track through GO, GO Rugged, and GO Anywhere devices.

Can it help with regulatory reporting?

Automated reports and the open platform make it easier to compile the records regulators and management ask for.

Do the cameras record my crews all day?

No. GO Focus cameras are event-based, not continuous surveillance. In-cab privacy controls include a physical privacy option, and a Road Only configuration runs the driver-assistance alerts with no in-cabin camera at all. We help you set a policy your union and your crews can live with.

Can dispatch share a crew's position with the EOC during an event?

Yes. MyGeotab supports live map views and asset-location sharing, so the emergency operations center sees what dispatch sees without needing logins for everyone in the room.

What goes on equipment that sits in the yard most of the year?

GO Anywhere battery trackers. Self-installed, sealed against weather, three to five years of battery life. They report on a schedule and wake up more often when the asset moves.

Be Ready Before the Next Storm

We will map your territory, crews, and rules in a free demo built around utility operations.

You reach a U.S.-based fleet specialist here, not a call center or a ticket queue.

Prefer to talk? (877) 771-2236