Prevent disease transmission through stronger transport biosecurity.

By combining vehicle movement information with your operation’s transport biosecurity requirements, the patented Protocol® Truck & Trailer platform helps teams see what is happening across the transportation network, identify potential breaches in real time, and verify that vehicle movements align with your biosecurity rules.

Strengthen accountability across your livestock operation, reduce manual review, and make transport biosecurity easier to manage, monitor, and follow.

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Give your team the visibility, alerts, and accountability they need to manage transport biosecurity with greater confidence.

Livestock trailers moving between farm production sites with transport biosecurity monitoring, compliance verification, and vehicle movement visibility across a livestock operation.

Why Transport Biosecurity Matters

Understanding what is actually happening across your transportation network is the foundation of strong transport biosecurity. Trucks, trailers, and other vehicles can contribute to disease transmission between sites when biosecurity requirements are not consistently followed. Across multiple vehicles, production sites, and transportation providers, it can be difficult to know whether transport biosecurity requirements are being followed consistently. A complete picture of vehicle movements gives teams the information they need to verify compliance, prevent disease transmission, identify risks, and take action when issues arise.

Prevent Disease Transmission

Reduce risk of disease spread between production sites through stronger transport biosecurity practices.

Strengthen Biosecurity Compliance

Know when vehicle movements don’t follow established transport biosecurity requirements, including truck wash protocols, downtime and health pyramid requirements.

Improve Operational Visibility

See [RH1.1]a complete picture of vehicle movements across your operation to support informed biosecurity management and faster response when issues occur.

75% of trailers leaving harvest facilities were contaminated with at least one pathogen, even though they tested negative for all viruses on arrival.

– Swine Health Information Center

How Protocol® Truck & Trailer Works

Protocol® Truck & Trailer connects vehicle movement information with your transport biosecurity requirements.

By comparing actual vehicle movements against established transport biosecurity requirements, the software automatically identifies potential biosecurity breaches and notifies designated team members in real time when vehicle movements do not align with those requirements. This helps teams verify compliance, identify risks, and take action before issues become larger problems.

The patented Protocol® Truck & Trailer software works with existing GPS and fleet tracking platforms or Farm Health Guardian GPS devices. Using virtual property boundaries (geofences), visits are automatically recorded when vehicles enter or exit farms, feed mills, truck wash facilities, and other locations within your system.

Biosecurity route planning screen displaying vehicle movement history, production flow requirements, and site health status information used to support transport decisions.

Breach Alerts & Disease Risk Notifications

Receive automated alerts when vehicle movements do not align with transport biosecurity requirements.

Early identification of potential issues helps teams take action before risks become larger problems.

Movement data is only valuable when it helps teams respond. Breach alerts make that possible.

The patented Protocol® Truck & Trailer software compares vehicle movements against established transport biosecurity requirements and notifies designated team members in real time when a potential breach is identified.

Alerts may be triggered by route deviations, truck wash violations, downtime, dedicated trailer issues, health pyramid conflicts or other activities that require review.

By surfacing potential breaches as they occur, teams can investigate sooner, take corrective action, and strengthen transport biosecurity compliance across the operation.

Transport biosecurity alert identifying a potential compliance issue involving vehicle movements and notifying designated personnel for review.

Vehicle Movement Visibility

Gain a complete picture of truck and trailer movements across farm production sites, wash facilities, feed mills, and other properties in your system from one centralized platform.

Transport biosecurity decisions depend on knowing where vehicles have been and how they are moving across your system.

Patented Protocol® Truck & Trailer technology brings GPS data from multiple truck fleets and transportation sources into one centralized view. This includes platforms used by feed delivery, live haul, maintenance, and other transportation teams, helping create a more complete picture of vehicle activity across the operation.

The software works with major GPS and fleet tracking platforms, including Samsara, Geotab, and Motive, as well as Farm Health Guardian GPS devices for vehicles or trailers that are not already equipped.

Centralized transportation records help production managers, veterinarians, and biosecurity teams support compliance monitoring, disease investigations, route review, and day-to-day transportation and biosecurity decisions.

Bring GPS data from multiple fleets into one transport biosecurity view.

Trace-Out Reporting

Access vehicle movement records and trace-out reports to speed up disease investigations and outbreak response.

When a disease event occurs, contact tracing becomes one of the most important tools for understanding where risk may have moved.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer makes transport contact tracing faster and easier by turning automatically recorded vehicle movement history into trace-out reports.
Production managers, veterinarians, and biosecurity teams can quickly identify vehicles, site visits, and transportation connections that may be relevant to a disease investigation.

Instead of manually compiling paper visitor records, spreadsheets, and shipment data, teams can access the transportation information they need in minutes, helping them identify potential exposure pathways and prioritize follow-up during an outbreak response.

 

Trace-out report displaying vehicle movement history, site visits, and transportation records used to support disease investigations and outbreak response activities.

Make transport contact tracing faster, clearer, and easier to act on.

Verify Planned Routes for Biosecurity

Audit planned and actual vehicle movements based on previous visits, health status, and transport biosecurity requirements.

Knowing where a vehicle has been helps determine where it can safely go next.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer combines vehicle movement history with health status and biosecurity requirements to support transport decisions across your system. 

Teams can compare planned and actual routes, verify compliance, and identify potential concerns before they create greater biosecurity risk.

By making route review easier, the software helps reduce time spent manually piecing together movement history, health status, and route information.

Biosecurity route planning screen displaying vehicle movement history, production flow requirements, and site health status information used to support transport decisions.

Spend less time reviewing and approving routes and more time managing your business.

Disease Response & Control Zones

Define control zones, identify at-risk properties and contacts, and share targeted disease response updates across your operation.

When disease events occur, timely information and clear communication are critical.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer helps teams move from investigation to action by connecting movement records, mapping tools, and targeted communications in one place.

Users can draw customized radius or polygon control zones around an affected property and generate a list of farm properties within the defined area, including available contact information.

The software can also factor in wind speed and direction to help identify surrounding properties that may be at risk from windborne pathogen transmission. This information can support transportation rerouting, follow-up with at-risk farms, and more coordinated disease response planning.

Targeted messages can be sent to property users, visitors, contractors, and truck or trailer contacts. Updates may include health status changes, longer downtime requirements, movement restrictions, or instructions to limit access to a property.

By helping teams define the affected area, identify who needs to know, and communicate next steps, Protocol® Truck & Trailer supports faster, more coordinated response during disease events.

 

Map control zones, identify at-risk properties, and coordinate next steps.

“Real-time, GPS-based monitoring can enhance compliance with transport and vehicle biosecurity measures and increase awareness of the risk of breaches.”

– Dr. Erin Kettelkamp, Swine Vet Center

Frequently Asked Questions

Protocol® Truck & Trailer is a transport biosecurity management solution that helps livestock production systems monitor vehicle movements, verify compliance with biosecurity requirements, identify potential risks, and speed up disease investigations and response activities.

The software combines vehicle movement information with transport biosecurity requirements to provide production managers, veterinarians, and biosecurity teams with greater visibility into transportation activity and compliance across their operation.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer is designed for livestock production systems that want to strengthen transport biosecurity and reduce disease transmission risk.

The software supports production managers, veterinarians, biosecurity managers, transportation managers, dispatchers, site managers, and operations teams responsible for monitoring vehicle movements and managing transport biosecurity requirements.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer works with existing GPS and fleet tracking platforms to collect vehicle movement information. Farm Health Guardian devices can also be installed on vehicles or trailers that are not already equipped with GPS technology.

Using virtual property boundaries (geofences), visits to farms, feed mills, truck wash facilities, and other locations are automatically recorded when vehicles arrive or leave. Transportation records are then available in one place to support compliance monitoring, disease investigations, and transport biosecurity management.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer helps teams verify that vehicle movements align with established transport biosecurity requirements.

This may include monitoring truck wash protocols, downtime requirements, trailer assignments, production flow requirements, and other transportation practices designed to reduce disease transmission risk.

When a disease event occurs, transportation records can provide important information about potential exposure pathways.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer helps teams review vehicle movement history, create instant trace-out reports, and investigate transportation activity that may be relevant to disease investigations and outbreak response efforts.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer helps livestock operations strengthen transport biosecurity by providing visibility into vehicle movements, compliance monitoring, trace-out reporting, and disease response tools. These capabilities can support biosecurity programs designed to reduce the risk of diseases such as PRRS, PED, African Swine Fever (ASF), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Avian Influenza, and other animal health threats.

Trace-out reports use vehicle movement information to help teams understand where trucks and trailers have travelled and which sites may have been connected through transportation activity.

These reports can support disease investigations, outbreak response activities, and biosecurity decision-making during disease events.

Yes. Protocol® Truck & Trailer can integrate with existing GPS and fleet tracking platforms. The software is designed to bring vehicle movement information together in a centralized location to support transport biosecurity management.

Additional Farm Health Guardian devices can also be installed when required.

Traditional fleet tracking platforms focus primarily on vehicle location and logistics.

Protocol® Truck & Trailer is designed specifically for livestock production systems and transport biosecurity management. The platform combines vehicle movement information with biosecurity requirements to support compliance monitoring, disease investigations, trace-out reporting, control zones, and disease response activities.

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