Confronting Large Vehicle Blind Spots Even the most skilled commercial drivers struggle with tight spaces. Large semi-trucks possess massive blind spots where small passenger cars can easily disappear. Traditional mirrors help significantly, but they cannot show every angle around a long trailer. Consequently, minor sideswipe ... Read More »

When you are new to the job, every vendor will try to sell you a different gadget for cameras, tracking, and fuel logs. It can be tempting to buy one cheap tool for GPS tracking and another separate brand for your dash cameras. Do not ... Read More »

If your fleet operates anywhere near the West Coast, emissions compliance can feel like a secondary nightmare. Keeping track of changing state rules takes a lot of time and effort. However, Zonar Systems just announced a major regulatory victory that makes life much easier for ... Read More »

Nothing ruins a rookie fleet manager's week faster than a driver peeling the roof off a trailer like a tin can. Low bridge collisions are incredibly expensive, causing thousands of dollars in structural damage and ruining valuable cargo. Standard GPS units frequently miss local bridge ... Read More »

You can tell your drivers to slow down when it rains, but you cannot sit in the passenger seat of every truck in your fleet. For a long time, managers had to trust that their drivers would make the right call when a storm hit. ... Read More »

Understanding the New Safety Gap For many years, fleet managers treated safety as a "one size fits all" problem. They gave the same training to every driver and hoped for the best. However, the Geotab 2026 State of Commercial Transportation Report (published February 2026) reveals ... Read More »

Seeing the Danger Before the Damage For years, fleet managers have used accident reports to figure out how to stay safe. They would look at a crash and try to make sure it never happened again. But according to the 2026 Motive AI Road Safety ... Read More »

The End of Just Watching For many years, dashcams were like silent witnesses. They recorded what happened on the road and saved the video to be watched later. If a driver got into an accident, the manager would look at the footage to see what ... Read More »

Seeing Every Angle from the Driver's Seat For a long time, truck drivers had to rely mostly on their mirrors and their own intuition to navigate tight spaces. Even with the best training, a massive semi-truck has "blind spots" where a small car or a ... Read More »

Moving Beyond the Rearview Mirror For a long time, safety in the trucking industry was reactive. This means a manager would look at dashcam footage or data only after something went wrong. If a driver slammed on the brakes or got into a fender bender, ... Read More »