California's transportation agency is spending $2.5 million to update its fleet of vehicles with high-tech gear.
The Sacramento Bee reported Saturday that Caltrans is installing GPS tracking devices on its 7,500 sedans, snow plows, trucks and other vehicles. The devices will report where vehicles are traveling, how long they idle and their speed among other things. The devices will also tracks which employee is driving.
In July, the California Highway Patrol found a stolen Caltrans vehicle and arrested a thief within an hour of it going missing because of a GPS tracking device.
The devices cost $2.5 million and Caltrans will spend another $1.5 million on a reporting system annually.
