General Contractors
Track your fleet, secure your sites, run your business
General contractors manage vehicles, equipment, and subcontractors across multiple job sites. Surety Business helps you keep track of assets, control access, and protect your shop—all from one platform.
The scale of construction site theft and fleet risk
You show up Monday morning to a job site and the copper wire you unloaded Friday is gone. Or the trailer full of tools that was parked in your yard over the weekend. Construction site theft is often invisible for days—materials disappear at night or on weekends and nobody notices until work is scheduled to resume. The National Equipment Register and industry insurers estimate the industry loses between $300 million and $1 billion annually to theft. For a small or mid-size GC, a single incident can cost $20,000 to $50,000 in materials, plus the delay cost of a job that can't proceed until replacement arrives.
Subcontractor access creates a specific problem that most GCs manage badly. Over the life of a project, dozens of subs cycle through your shop, storage yard, and active sites—and most retain whatever access they were given long after their portion of the job is complete. Keys get copied. Codes get shared. Without a way to issue and revoke credentials electronically, you have no real control over who can access your facility six months after a project closes. Access logs that document who entered and when also support your bonding requirements and give you a documented record if a theft dispute involves a subcontractor's timeline.
Fleet visibility is the operational gain that most contractors say changes how they run their business more than anything else. When trucks, trailers, and equipment are moving between job sites, supply houses, and the shop all day, dispatch decisions made without real-time location information waste fuel and time. Knowing which vehicle is closest to an urgent delivery, which crew has finished at one site and can be redirected, and whether every truck returned to your yard each night gives you a level of operational control that most contractors don't have—and immediately miss once they do.
Why general contractors choose Surety
Equipment tracking
Know where your trucks, trailers, and equipment are at all times. GPS tracking helps you coordinate across multiple active job sites.
Job site security
Portable cameras and access control help protect materials and tools at job sites. Know who's on site and when.
Subcontractor management
Control access to your shop and storage areas. Grant temporary credentials to subs and revoke them when the job is done.
Solutions for general contractors
Fleet management
- Real-time GPS for trucks, vans, and trailers
- Know which vehicles are at which job sites
- Driver behavior monitoring
- Maintenance scheduling to avoid breakdowns
Access control
- Secure tool and material storage
- Temporary credentials for subcontractors
- Track access for accountability
- Remote unlock from your phone
Video surveillance
- Cover your shop, yard, and storage areas
- Portable cameras for active job sites
- Review footage when materials go missing
- Cloud storage for easy retrieval
Intrusion detection
- Protect shop and office after hours
- Motion detection for yard perimeter
- 24/7 professional monitoring available
- Video verification for alarm events
Built for builders who do it themselves
If your crew can build a house, they can definitely install cameras and sensors. Surety Business gives you professional-grade Alarm.com features without paying installer fees or signing multi-year contracts. Add fleet tracking to manage everything from one app.