It's actually kind of blowing my mind right now that moving company location data isn't already available as a perk or benefit. Pay extra to get tracking information to know where your stuff is at all times? Some of these companies have to have lo-jack or other GPS tech in their trucks already for insurance purposes, I imagine. Seems like something a bigger moving company with a lot of national coverage would have been doing years ago and makes me wonder if companies like the ones who rent out the "Pods" shipping containers have tracking in them.
I mean, sometimes companies on Kickstarter will give out the vessel names of the ships that are transporting board games or whatever from China to the US and I can track them across the ocean and to different countries in real-time. I can track a Dutch-owned shipping vessel carrying Canadian goods to the US from China through the Suez Canal, yet I can't see where a UHaul carrying all of my possessions from New Jersey down I-95 to Georgia is? Seems really weird…
The commercials and advertisements for this kind of feature write themselves. Like, here's an easy one straight off the dome:
A young child is distraught over her favorite toys and stuffed animals being packed up and shipped ahead of a move. A loving parent pulls up the tracking at various times on a tablet showing the shipment location to console the child, telling them things like "Look, your bear is visiting Chicago! I bet he's enjoying a Chicago-style hot dog at this very moment!" And then, without the child seeing, the parent slips some postcards or souvenirs from the various locations they tracked online into the box when it arrives. "Awww, your bear got you some gifts during his travels!"
