SectorsWaste, skip hire and recycling

Know where every skip is, and how long it’s been there

Tag every skip and container. Your skip lorries log each drop and lift automatically, so you can see where every skip is, how many days it’s been out, and which ones are overdue — alongside your lorries and the plant at your transfer station.

Built for

Who it's for, and what it changes

Owners and directors

Stop losing skips, and stop leaving them out earning nothing.

A count of every skip — in the yard, on hire or overdue
Skips left out past their hire period flagged for collection
One system for lorries, skips and site plant

Transport managers

Proof of every drop, exchange and collection on every route.

Each drop and lift logged with time and place
The wrong skip collected flagged straight away
Lorries live on the map, with trip history for disputes

Yard and site managers

Know what’s in the yard, what’s out, and when the plant is due.

Skips counted back in at the gate
On hours and service reminders for loaders and grabs
Out-of-hours movement alerts for site plant

Sound familiar?

A skip has no engine, no power and no driver. Once it’s dropped on a driveway, the only record of where it is tends to be a job sheet.

“Where’s skip 214?”

Skips get dropped, swapped and moved on by customers. Tracking down a missing one means checking paper job sheets and driving round.

“That one’s been out for weeks”

A skip left out long after its hire period isn’t earning, and an expired road permit can mean a fine. Nobody notices until someone goes looking.

“We collected the wrong one”

On a busy site with several skips, the driver lifts the wrong one, or a customer claims a skip was never delivered.

Every skip logged where it’s dropped

A tag on each skip is detected by the skip lorry. When the lorry drives away without it, GeoTrace records where and when it was left — no scanning and no paperwork for the driver.

Empty skip just dropped on a house driveway, with the skip lorry driving away — SK-214 · 6-yard skip
Live
Dropped
Tue 08:20 · Lorry 3
Location
Elm Road
Hire period
14 days
Collection due
Tue 4 Nov

Days on site, and overdue skips

Every skip shows how long it has been out since it was dropped. Skips past their hire period or road permit stand out, so they’re collected — and re-hired — instead of sitting on someone’s driveway.

Full skip with lit safety cones on a terraced street at dusk — SK-118 · on the road
Overdue
Dropped
Thu 2 Oct · Lorry 1
Days on site
19 days
Hire period
14 days
Road permit
Expires Friday

Exchanges and collections, checked

On an exchange, the full skip lifted and the empty one dropped are both logged against the job. If the lorry lifts a different skip from the one booked, you’ll know before it leaves the street.

An empty skip and a full skip side by side on a building site — Exchange · job 5521
Complete
Lifted
SK-214 · full
Dropped
SK-301 · empty
Lorry
Lorry 3 · 10:42

Lorries tracked like the rest of your fleet

Every skip lorry is live on the map. Draw your transfer station as a geofence to log every tip run and turnaround, and replay any trip when a customer says the lorry never came.

Skip lorry carrying a full skip on the weighbridge at a waste transfer station — Transfer station
Live
Lorry 3
Entered · 11:05
Tip runs today
4
Average turnaround
18 min
Next job
Elm Road exchange

Plant at the transfer station

Fit a tracker to loading shovels, telehandlers and grabs to log their on hours for service reminders, and get an alert if a machine moves outside working hours.

Loading shovel pushing a pile of mixed waste inside a transfer station shed — Loading shovel L-02
Live
On hours today
5.20 h
Next service
24 h left
Out-of-hours use
None this week
Machine battery
27.4 V

The yard, counted

A plug-in gateway at the yard gate logs every skip and container coming back, giving you a live count of empties ready to go out and a list of what’s still on hire.

Overhead view of a skip hire yard with rows of empty skips, two skip lorries and a gated entrance — Yard · this morning
Empty skips in yard
86
Out on hire
214
Overdue
12
Back in today
9

Plus everything else in GeoTrace

It all sits in the same GeoTrace dashboard as your vehicle tracking, so there's nothing extra to learn.

A summary every morning

Overdue skips, plant services coming up and trackers not reporting, emailed at 7am.

Tag battery warnings

Every tag warns you well before its battery runs flat, so no skip quietly drops off the count.

Drivers see their own jobs

The companion app shows each driver the skips on their lorry and the ones they’re due to collect.

Driving behaviour and alerts

Harsh braking, speeding and idling for every lorry, plus tamper and jamming alerts on the trackers.

Other sectors

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See your skips on the map

We’ll tag a few of your skips, fit a tracker to a lorry, and show you drops, exchanges and days on site on the dashboard.

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