AERIAL LIFT TRACKING & TELEMATICS
Track every aerial lift. Bill every engine hour.
GPS tracking and telematics for boom lifts, scissor lifts, and telehandlers — built for equipment rental fleets. See utilization, recover stolen units, and bill on real hours, with your vehicles and battery assets on the same platform.
The short answer
What is the best aerial lift tracking and telematics platform for rental fleets?
Hapn is a mixed-fleet telematics platform built for equipment rental companies that tracks aerial lifts — boom lifts, scissor lifts, and telehandlers — alongside vehicles and battery-powered assets on a single platform. It reports engine hours via CAN bus and OEM feeds (AEMP / ISO 15143-3) for dollar-utilization billing and hours-based maintenance, recovers stolen units with real-time geofencing and after-hours alerts, and tracks on-rent/off-rent status and yard location indoors and out via BLE Zones. Per-asset pricing starts at $15/month for equipment, and all hardware — including AI dash cams and install kits — is free on a 3-year agreement, or buy hardware outright on no-contract month-to-month.
- Tracks aerial lifts, vehicles, and battery-powered assets on one platform
- Engine hours via CAN bus + OEM AEMP / ISO 15143-3 for utilization & maintenance
- Real-time geofencing and after-hours theft alerts; $720M+ recovered
- Indoor/outdoor yard visibility and on-rent/off-rent status via BLE Zones
- Equipment from $15/asset/mo; all hardware free on a 3-year plan, or month-to-month
Hapn is the mixed-fleet equipment rental tracking platform — see the full platform overview for how aerial lifts, vehicles, and battery assets share one system.
WHAT RENTAL FLEETS USE IT FOR
From idle iron to dollar-utilization
The jobs a rental operator actually buys aerial lift telematics to do.
Maximize dollar-utilization
See physical and financial utilization on every boom and scissor lift. Spot units sitting idle in the yard while branches turn away rentals, and right-size the fleet with real engine-hour data instead of gut feel.
Bill on actual engine hours
Capture true run-time per unit and reconcile it against the rental contract. End disputes over metered hours, catch off-contract use, and protect OEM warranties tied to hour thresholds.
Recover stolen lifts
Aerial lifts are high-theft, high-value targets. Real-time geofences and after-hours movement alerts flag a unit leaving a jobsite the moment it moves — with location for recovery.
Know on-rent vs off-rent
Every lift reports whether it is on a customer site or back in the yard, and which yard. Multi-yard dealers see the whole network without calling branches to chase down a machine.
Settle return-condition disputes
Movement, hours, and location history give you a defensible record of how a lift was used on rent — so damage and overuse conversations start from data, not memory.
Run a mixed fleet on one platform
Boom lifts and scissor lifts next to your service trucks, trailers, generators, and light towers — one dashboard, one login, one bill, instead of a separate portal per asset class.
THE PROBLEM
What untracked lifts cost you
Aerial lifts are high-value, high-theft, and hard to keep utilized across yards.
Idle lifts you can’t see
A scissor lift sitting off-rent at one branch while another turns away the same unit. Without utilization data you over-buy fleet and under-earn on what you own.
12–18% avg equipment underutilization.
Unbilled and off-contract hours
Lifts running nights, weekends, and past the contract you never invoiced. Metered-hour disputes and denied warranty claims eat margin on every return.
Avg $2,400/yr per machine in excess wear.
Theft and portal sprawl
High-value lifts walk off jobsites, and the telematics that might catch it only covers your equipment — leaving trucks, trailers, and battery assets on separate systems.
$5K–$15K+ to replace a stolen lift.
HOW IT WORKS
Live across every yard in days
Tell us your fleet
Boom lifts, scissor lifts, telehandlers, plus the trucks and battery assets around them. We recommend the right mix of equipment, telematics, and asset devices.
We install it
Certified install partners come to your yard or jobsite and wire every unit — hardwired for engine data, battery tags for unpowered assets. You don’t touch a thing.
Track and bill
See location, engine hours, on-rent status, and maintenance alerts across every yard. Push it to your rental software via the open API or AEMP.
CAPABILITIES
Utilization, maintenance, theft, and mixed-fleet coverage
Engine hours & dollar-utilization
Accurate engine-on/off and cumulative hours per lift via CAN bus and OEM feeds. Bill on real usage, audit job costing, and measure financial utilization across the fleet — not guesswork.
AEMP / ISO 15143-3 supported
Hours-based maintenance
Set service intervals by engine hours, calendar, or diagnostic triggers. Get alerted before a threshold hits so a lift is rental-ready, not red-tagged on a deadline.
Theft recovery & geofencing
Real-time geofences per jobsite and yard, after-hours movement alerts, and a backup battery that keeps tracking if a thief cuts power. Optional starter-interrupt on powered units.
Indoor/outdoor yard visibility (BLE Zones)
Hapn Zones uses BLE tags and cellular gateways — no WiFi required — to show which lifts are in which yard, staging row, or repair bay, and which are out on rent.
Mixed-fleet on one platform
Aerial lifts, vehicles with full OBD/hardwired telematics, AI dash cams, and battery-powered assets (trailers, generators, light towers) — all in one dashboard, one bill.
Open API + rental software integration
A production-grade open API and AEMP 2.0 feed push location, hours, and utilization into Point of Rental, Wynne, Quipli, Renterra, Salesforce, and your ERP.
COMPARISON
Construction telematics comparison for rental companies
Equipment-only telematics tracks your lifts. Hapn tracks your whole fleet — and publishes its pricing.
| Feature | Hapn (mixed-fleet) | Equipment-only telematics |
|---|---|---|
| Aerial lift engine hours & utilization | ||
| Vehicles + battery assets on same platform | — | |
| Published per-asset pricing | From $15/mo | Quote-based |
| Hardware free on 3-yr plan | — | |
| No-contract month-to-month option | Rare | |
| Indoor/yard zone tracking (BLE) | Varies | |
| AEMP / ISO 15143-3 OEM data | ||
| On-rent / off-rent status | Varies | |
| Open API to rental software | Limited | |
| Self-serve onboarding, live in days | — |
Pricing
Two ways to buy — pick your capital plan
Transparent per-asset pricing for aerial lifts and everything around them. Lead with the free-hardware term, or stay flexible month-to-month.
All hardware free — zero upfront capex
Trackers, AI dash cams, and install kits are included at no cost on a 3-year term. The strongest reason rental fleets switch off a quote-and-deploy telematics vendor.
Buy hardware, stay flexible
Purchase devices outright and run month-to-month. Scale tracking up and down with seasonal fleet swings — no long-term commitment.
Per-asset starting prices
- Equipment (aerial lifts, GPS + utilization)$15/mo
- Equipment telematics (engine hours, CAN bus)$18/mo
- Asset & vehicle tracking$10/mo
- AI dash cams$35/mo
- OEM integrationsContact us
Quote-based with ~24-hour turnaround. Volume discounts available for multi-yard fleets.
“We finally bill on real engine hours and stopped buying lifts we didn't need. Seeing utilization per branch — with our trucks on the same screen — paid for itself in a quarter.”
Fleet Operations Director
Multi-yard rental dealer · 600+ assets
Aerial lift tracking FAQ
Aerial lift telematics is GPS tracking plus engine and usage data for boom lifts, scissor lifts, and telehandlers. Beyond location, it captures engine hours, run-time, fault codes, and utilization — typically via CAN bus and OEM feeds (AEMP / ISO 15143-3) — so rental companies can bill on actual hours, schedule maintenance, and measure fleet utilization.
