Motive, the AI-powered Integrated Operations Platform, and Fleetio, the leading fleet maintenance and optimization platform, have officially signed off on a partnership to achieve expanded integration which can centralize fuel, maintenance, and telematics data.
According to certain reports, this particular integration brings forth two-way automated data workflows, all for the purpose of helping users eliminate manual tasks, strengthen safety and compliance, extend asset life, as well as give fleets greater visibility into fuel and maintenance operating cost.
“This integration brings together fuel, telematics, and maintenance data in a way that helps companies not just react to challenges, but get ahead of them,” said Stefano Daneri, Fleet Ecosystem Strategist at Fleetio. “It’s all about turning data into action, action into uptime, and uptime into long-term performance.”
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how fuel and service costs account for nearly 75% of operating budgets, making it extremely difficult for fleet managers to keep vehicles road-ready and control escalating expenses.
Against that, the Motive-Fleetio integration conceives for their customers two new powerful capabilities to help them overcome these very challenges.
Talk about the given capabilities on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the all-new Two-Way Driver Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) Sync facility, which is markedly designed to sync defect resolutions seamlessly through an automated, end-to-end DVIR process.
This particular mechanism treads up a long distance to enhance compliance, while simultaneously maximizing vehicle and driver uptime. You see, when an issue is resolved in Fleetio, the corresponding DVIR defect in Motive automatically closes, allowing managers to act quickly and prevent unsafe dispatches.
Turning our attention towards the other new feature, it happens to be the Motive Card Fuel Sync. This one basically comes in handy to ensure that every Motive Card fuel transaction is automatically imported into Fleetio, and therefore, give fleets a single source of truth for all cost tracking, budgeting, and International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) reporting.
The stated innovation also connects fuel spend with driver behavior and asset health to help managers gain new insight into one of their largest expenses and turn what was previously a blind spot into an advantage.
Among other things, it ought to be acknowledged that, since 2018, Motive and Fleetio have worked together to unify maintenance and telematics data. They have, as a result of that legwork, gone on to achieve streamlined scheduling, fault tracking, service reminders, and asset insights.
In fact, thanks to Fleetio managing over one million assets and Motive’s vast telematics reach, the partnership is able to deliver one of the industry’s largest cross-platform datasets.
Founded in 2013, Motive’s rise up the ranks stems from helping safety, operations, and finance teams manage their workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. The company’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it serves, at present, more than 100,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. These customers include Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk
All in all, Motive current has a footprint in various different industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, waste services, and the public sector.
As for Fleetio, it makes a case for itself by empowering fleets, repair shops and partners to efficiently manage their assets. The company currently supports over 1 million vehicles on its platform, including more than 7,500 fleets across 100+ countries, and processes over 13 million repair orders through a network of 110,000 repair shops.
“Motive’s mission is to empower the people who run physical operations with AI-powered tools that make their work safer and more productive,” said Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive. “This integration advances that mission by uniting our AI-driven insights with Fleetio’s maintenance expertise—seamlessly connecting two mission-critical systems to help fleets operate at peak performance.”
