What is Geotab? How This Fleet Management Platform Powers

Finding a single platform that ticks all the boxes can be highly challenging, especially when you need the solution to be:

• Efficient
• Compliant with regulations
• Safety-oriented
• Simple to use

Fortunately, a solution isn’t just a pipe dream. With over 55,000 existing customers, according to sites like Transport Topics, Geotab may be one of the best options on the market right now.

So, what is Geotab, and what unique features does Geotab offer over and above standard fleet management tools?

The following guide breaks down how Geotab’s hardware and software perfectly fit together to ensure you get real benefits from its use. Read on to learn how fleet managers using it can cut down on surprise events, reducing paperwork and unexpected outgoings across the fleet.

Finally, discover how EnVue and Geotab work together and why they could be the very thing you need to outpace your competitors in the coming years.

What Is Geotab Fleet Management?

Geotab offers a modular telematics ecosystem by pairing its dashboard G09 tracker with the MyGeotab cloud platform to stream as much data as possible over wireless LTE in short bursts. Through this, it offers all the data drivers might need to perform their job to the best of their ability, including:

• Fuel use predictions
• Predictive maintenance insights
• Driver habit tracking
• Smart collision detection
• Other sensor data

The system also uses an API and open marketplace to ensure you can combine other data feeds with what it offers to produce the best outcome for everyone in the fleet ecosystem.

The Geotab device itself is a simple plug-and-play dongle that auto-detects the vehicle type it attaches to when plugged into the vehicle’s OBD II port. It then sends fleet data analytics, such as GPS tracking, to a central Geotab platform, accessible via a simple Geotab dashboard.

The Geotab device is straightforward to install and set up, promising minimal interference with the driver’s flow.

Key Geotab Benefits for Fleets

Geotab offers a combination of features that allow clear visibility of:

• Fleet diagnostics
• Driver behavior quantification
• Routing data and asset locations
• Carbon footprints
• Cost per mile for both drivers and vehicles

With these telemetry solutions, you can bring your worst cost drivers down without compromising elsewhere.

For example, you could enact maintenance or training to reduce driving costs or analyze and iterate on your internal policies that may be causing excessive outgoings. Using geofencing, you can also receive warnings whenever any assets move to where they should not be and take action sooner.

Responding to Driver Behavior

Receiving information on driver behavior in real-time, you can start to take risk-mitigating action, such as:

• In-cab alerts via the Geotab dashboard
• Fatigue warnings
• Flagging dangerous driving following follow-up training
• Calling the driver back when unsafe behavior continues
• Dispatching roadside assistance after crash detection

Any training can also be hyper-focused on repeated events, based on the driver’s continued actions as detected by the device.

Automating Federally-Mandated Compliance

While most commercial vehicles are legally required to have a device such as Geotab to ensure FMCSA compliance, Geotab is both automated and future-proof due to the constant upload of digital data. Using Geotab’s mobile app, drivers can also complete all of the manual paperwork for compliance much more easily, streamlining:

• ELD compliance via HOS tracking
• DVIR inspections and defect reporting
• IFTA mileage tracking and report generation

Marketplace and Integration Options

The Geotab marketplace is a freely available selection of vetted add-ons that allow Geotab users to enhance their hardware and software capabilities by offering new features or connections with other existing hardware, such as:

• Cameras
• Refrigeration units
• Toll-handling processes
• Analytics tracking and management

These offer flexible tools that enable a wider variety of diverse businesses to address their own, unique needs. With dozens of solutions online, Geotab users can choose which solutions they wish to use, in which combination, and with which specific fleet subsections, without being beholden to a single software or hardware solution like with many other providers.

Giving businesses this freedom also leads to safer fleet solutions, as fleet managers no longer need to compromise on compatibility to get the information they need to perform their role.

Why Geotab Is a Game Changer for 40k+ Fleets

Worldwide, businesses trust Geotab to process billions of data points without bottlenecks or slowdowns. At the same time, by remaining at the forefront of AI research, Geotab can constantly produce fresh and new methods of providing fleet managers with the data they need in exactly the form they need it.

For this reason, and for focusing on the customer first, Geotab has received industry awards that recognize:

• Exceptional risk management
• Excellence in AI use
• Advanced sustainability efforts
• Unique innovation
• Customer service excellence

EnVue’s Partnership with Geotab

As a certified reseller and implementation specialist partnered with Geotab, we can provide solutions and training that match your needs to ensure your fleet remains as up-to-date as possible.

To ensure we maintain this excellence, we use:

• Consultancy steps to map your fleet needs to hardware and software
• Dedicated support channels to offer same-day assistance
• Training packages to onboard new drivers and fleet support personnel
• Pilot phases to iterate on your workflow before a full fleet rollout
• Post-deployment audits to validate your data and tune your alert systems

By continually iterating on this process and leveraging real people at every step, instead of AI, we can keep fleets like yours supplied with everything needed to excel.

Leverage Geotab for a More Effective Fleet

Geotab can turn your fleet’s complex and overlapping data points into clear actions that detect and prevent significant fleet risks, driving costs down quickly and effectively. Alongside our certified experts at EnVue, we can ensure that you leverage its key benefits, using the tool effectively to get the best telematics and analysis out of it possible.