The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming

Town tests employee tracking

Council tries GPS trackers as a way to increase productivity

Moorcroft Councilwoman Heidi Humpal has been pushing for plug-in GPS tracking tools in all town-owned highway vehicles.

“We’ve been discussing it back and for the for a while and we just want to be able to track some work progress, looking at different things that there may be questions about – it’ll just be real easy to tell for more productivity,” she said.

Her fellow councilmen agreed at last week’s regular meeting to a trial period.

The town will be ordering and installing the simple plug-in tracking systems for the maintenance and police vehicles, eight in all.

Humpal apprized the governi...