Systems, methods, and apparatus for efficient vehicle fleet tracking, deployment, and management

A method for efficiently managing tracked assets, comprising the steps of:

• receiving location data via a network from location sensing devices using one or more processors of one or more computers, wherein the location sensing devices are mobile devices situated on multiple different tracked assets;
• storing the location data in a database using the one or more processors;
• determining that multiple tracked assets are moving through geozones of a route while the tracked assets are moving, the one or more processors and the location data, wherein the geozones include a source geozone, a destination geozone, and a delivery transit geozone defining a geographic area between the source and destination geozones, and a return transit geozone defining a geographic area between the destination and the source geozones, and wherein the geozones represent separate and distinct geographic areas;
• displaying a time bar display based on the stored data using the one or more processors, wherein the time bar display includes multiple time bars displayed together, the multiple time bars corresponding to the location of the multiple tracked assets relative to the geozones of the route;
• monitoring timing between arrivals and departures while the tracked assets are moving to determine when spacing between at least two of the multiple tracked assets falls below a predetermined threshold as the multiple tracked assets move through the geozones;
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• automatically sending a notification to an operator via the network to increase or decrease the spacing between the at least two tracked assets so as to maintain at least the spacing between the at least two tracked assets as they traverse the predetermined geozones.