Investigations
GPS Tracking
Lawful GPS tracking on vehicles you own or otherwise have the legal right to monitor, used to direct surveillance rather than to replace it.
- #1 Private Investigator in Texas
- Texas License #12818
- Twenty-five years of experience
- Marine veteran owned
- Statewide Texas coverage
- Free confidential consultation
What this is
GPS Tracking, in plain terms.
Start with the part most people find out too late. In Texas it is a criminal offense to place a tracking device on a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner. It does not matter that you are married to the driver, or that you pay the insurance, or that you are sure. If the vehicle is not yours, tracking it is not an option, and an investigator who offers to do it anyway is offering to put you both at risk.
Where it is lawful, it is genuinely useful. A company fleet, a vehicle titled in your name, equipment you own. In those cases tracking is not a substitute for surveillance - it is what makes surveillance efficient, because it tells the investigator where to be before anybody has to spend the day guessing.
The work
What actually gets done.
- Establish, first, whether tracking is lawful in your specific situation, in writing.
- Advise on the alternative when it is not, which is usually conventional surveillance.
- Deploy and monitor tracking on company fleet vehicles and other vehicles you are entitled to monitor.
- Use location data to plan surveillance windows instead of burning hours.
- Produce location histories and stop reports for the period covered.
- Remove equipment and close out the deployment cleanly.
Investigations
Documented, or it did not happen.
An observation nobody wrote down at the time is a memory. Every hour is logged as it happens, with times and locations, including the hours where nothing occurred.
What you get
At the end of it.
- A written position on the lawfulness of what you are asking for.
- Location and stop reporting for the monitored period.
- Surveillance built on top of the data, where that is what the case needs.
- A record clean enough that how it was obtained never becomes the issue.
When people call
The three situations we hear most.
You run a fleet
Vehicles the business owns, used in ways the business needs to account for. Straightforward and lawful.
A vehicle in your name has gone somewhere
Title matters. If it is yours, your options are wider than you think.
You were about to buy a tracker online
Call first. A ten-minute conversation about whether you may lawfully use it is cheaper than the alternative.
Questions
About this service.
Can you put a tracker on my spouse’s car?
Not unless you are an owner of that vehicle. Texas law makes it an offense to install a tracking device on a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent. If the car is not yours, we will say no, and then we will tell you what can lawfully be done instead.
What about a car we both own?
Joint ownership changes the analysis, but it is a question for your attorney before it is a question for us, and the answer can depend on the facts of your case. We will not proceed on an assumption.
Is tracking better than surveillance?
It is not a replacement. Data tells you where a vehicle was. It does not tell you who was driving it, who they met, or what happened. The strongest cases use tracking to decide when to put an investigator in place.
Is the first conversation really free?
Yes, and it is confidential. You describe the situation, we tell you whether an investigation is likely to help, roughly what it would involve and what it would cost. There is no charge for that call and no obligation at the end of it.
More in this area
Other services in Investigations.
Where we work
Four metros, and the rest of Texas.
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio are where most cases start. Coverage runs to the whole state, and records and asset work is run nationally.
Free consultation
Tell us what is going on. The first call is free.
Describe the situation and we will tell you honestly whether an investigation would help, what it would involve and what it would cost. Confidential, no obligation, and no charge for the conversation.