Welcome to your first year of managing a commercial truck fleet. You probably thought you would be analyzing complex routes. Instead, you are likely drowning in endless spreadsheets and messy driver logs. Modern data can be completely overwhelming for a beginner. Fortunately, new generative artificial ... Read More »

The Dreaded Limp Mode is Dead Welcome to your first year in fleet management. You probably expected to deal with flat tires and angry customers. Instead, you are likely spending your days arguing with broken diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) sensors. Every fleet manager knows the ... Read More »

The Midnight Hazard Is Real Welcome to the night shift. You probably thought managing a fleet meant enjoying a quiet evening at home. However, your trucks do not sleep. Consequently, neither does your fleet's risk profile. Recent data paints a very clear, scary picture. Specifically, ... Read More »

The Real Cost of Bad Driving Welcome to your new life as a fleet manager. You likely thought your days would focus on routing trucks. Instead, you are probably spending your morning reviewing safety violations. It is a tough gig. Fortunately, modern telematics data reveals ... Read More »

If you've been in fleet management or trucking long enough, you've developed a healthy skepticism about federal deadlines. The automatic emergency braking (AEB) mandate for heavy trucks has been "coming soon" for so long that some of us have started treating it like that friend ... Read More »

Nobody hands you a fleet budget manual on your first day. You get a spreadsheet, a stack of invoices, and a login to some software you have never seen before. Then someone asks how much your fleet costs per mile, and you realize you are ... Read More »

Every gallon of diesel your drivers buy is a transaction you either control or you don't. Without a fuel management system in place, cash and general-purpose credit cards leave you with almost zero visibility into what was bought, where, by whom, and whether it was ... Read More »

Fuel is the expense that never stays still. Prices rise and fall, driving conditions change, and every driver handles the throttle differently. As a new fleet manager, you cannot control the price at the pump. However, you can absolutely control how efficiently your fleet uses ... Read More »

Trucks get all the attention. ELDs, dashcams, telematics — every device on your tractor tells you exactly what that driver is doing and where that truck is going. Yet when the driver unhooks the trailer and heads home, your visibility often disappears completely. That gap ... Read More »

Every fleet has that one toolbox drawer. The one with a flashlight that doesn't work, a fistful of fuses for a truck you sold in 2019, and an instruction manual nobody has opened since the Clinton administration. Turns out the federal government had one too ... Read More »