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What is Motive?

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management,…

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easy and reliable

9 out of 10
December 30, 2023
Incentivized
We use Motive for reliable log book services in transportation, very easy and user friendly for drivers as well as admin
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All in one program

10 out of 10
December 19, 2023
Incentivized
We have been using Motive for couple of years. The way the system is set to get notifications and updates on how each driver and equipment …
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GREAT!

9 out of 10
December 14, 2023
Incentivized
Is one of the best ELD that I found in the market, the API is so easy and comprehensive, what I like the most is that the safety …
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Keep moving with motive

10 out of 10
December 13, 2023
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Use it in all our trucks great for keeping track of where everyone is and keeping in touch and helps with maintenance and diagnostic help …
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Motive

10 out of 10
November 14, 2023
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With the ever-changing environment of rules and regulations in the trucking industry, Motive keeps us in compliance with FMCSA rules on …
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What is Motive?

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance,…

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Product Details

What is Motive?

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer and more productive. With Motive, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with AI, the Motive platform gives users visibility and control, and reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.


Motive states they serve more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Motive Features

  • Supported: ELD Compliance
  • Supported: Vehicle Tracking
  • Supported: AI Dashcam
  • Supported: IFTA Fuel Tax Reporting
  • Supported: Driver Coaching
  • Supported: Vehicle Utilization
  • Supported: Vehicle Inspections
  • Supported: Vehicle Diagnostics
  • Supported: Messaging
  • Supported: Driver Workflow
  • Supported: App Marketplace
  • Supported: Open API
  • Supported: Trailer & Equipment Tracking
  • Supported: Facility Insights
  • Supported: WiFi Hotspot

Motive Screenshots

Screenshot of Fleet Management: 
Motive delivers GPS tracking, vehicle telematics, PTO monitoring, and OEM integrations, providing unmatched visibility into fleet operations. Fleet View gives real-time visibility and historical context to help you make informed decisions and deliver exceptional customer service.

-Motive automatically pairs drivers, vehicles, trailers, and equipment for complete visibility. 
-Real-time geofence notifications enhance operational control with immediate updates on fleet movement, scheduling, and security.
-Live traffic and weather conditions layered directly onto maps allow for precise route planning and navigation
-Historical activity search confirms service completions and helps swiftly resolve disputes.
-Detailed trip history and playback vehicle paths to confirm timely arrivals and service fulfillment.Screenshot of AI-Powered Driver Safety: 
Motive uses AI to monitor and protect drivers, and gives safety managers the tools to prevent accidents and reduce risk. Motive lets users choose which unsafe behaviors to detect, so as to not be overwhelmed with safety videos or exposed to unnecessary liability. The safety experience can be customized based on a program’s needs; choose which events to detect and the threshold at which they are detected.

-Motive uses an AI processor for computer vision from Ambarella.
-Motive detects more than 15+ unsafe behaviors.
-Ultra-wide HD video: 1440p at 30 frames per second vs 1080p at 15 frames per second
-Configurable storage based on video quality: 45-235 hours with long-duration cloud recall options.Screenshot of Equipment Monitoring:
Motive automatically pairs vehicles and assets, improving visibility and simplifying dispatch.

-Motive provides automated pairing of vehicles, assets, and drivers, streamlining fleet operations.
-Operational oversight with real-time tracking of locations of drivers, vehicles, and assets in motion.
-Supports review and report on past dispatches to validate deliveries and determine which vehicles or assets were used.Screenshot of Compliance:
Motive Compliance Hub centralizes ELD compliance, Driver Qualification, IFTA reporting, and CSA score management.

-Streamlines compliance related activities spanning ELD compliance, Driver Qualification, IFTA reporting, and CSA score management.
-Automates major workflows like unidentified trip assignment and HoS violation monitoring.
-Combines Hour of Service data and CSA insights for a comprehensive view of driver performance.

Motive Videos

Motive builds technology to improve the safety and productivity of businesses that power the physical economy. The fleet management and enterprise fleet management solutions combine IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate: Equipment and vehicle tracking. Driver ...
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Motive's advanced AI Dashcam detects risky driving behaviors and offers real-time coaching while prioritizing driver privacy. Combined with Motive's AI Omnicam, users gain 360-degree visibility around vehicles, ensuring no critical event goes unnoticed.

Motive Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesUnited States of America, Canada, Mexico
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses across industries, including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, & delivery.

Verizon Connect, Samsara Vehicle Telematics, and Lytx are common alternatives for Motive.

Reviewers rate Availability and Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Motive are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Motive (previously KeepTruckin) allows our dispatch to keep continuous eyes on our drivers. We are notified of their driving condition. The ease of use for mileage gathering and routes taken help our team use their time to focus on other areas of need.
  • Fast update for current location
  • Notifications of unsafe driving
  • quick customer service responses when needed
  • They can make setting up new drivers easier
  • Finding reports for total miles per truck
Motive (previously KeepTruckin) is easy to use for customer location updates.
  • Improved Safety
  • Increased driver responsibility
  • Reduced office personnel turnover
Quick responses and always have solutions right away.
Better visibility at a low cost.
Yes, Motive (previously KeepTruckin) is available when i need it
Much better visibility and ease of use.
13
12 Drivers 1 Operations Manager
2
Operations Manager Dispatch
  • Driver Visibility
  • Driver Safety
  • Mileage Tracking
  • Award drivers for safe driving
  • Document driver for unsafe driving
  • Optimize routes used daily for drivers
  • IFTA
  • Fuel Usage V.S. Mileage
  • Dashcams
We are consistently solicited by other new and existing tracking providers. We are happy with Motive and as long as you keep innovating and optimizing available tools we will stay.
No
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
The cost to scale our fleet is minimal compared to the advantages of having Motive. It is easy to use and easy to train new employees on the system.
I would not change a thing.
  • Implemented in-house
No
  • Connecting drivers to unit
  • having the correct cable even though VIN was provided
None
  • Online Training
Trainer was hard to understand but very knowledgeable in my needs.
No, we are not at the scale of support needed for premium support.
No
I was having trouble recognizing a new driver. Motive support was quickly able to help and resolve my issue.
I would like to see an easier user interface with all available miles and locations for active drivers. If the user interface was easier to help with IFTA and fuel usage it would solve a lot of my issues and make more of my days available for other tasks.
  • Driver tacking
  • Driver visibility
  • Fleet Usage visibility
  • Back-end driver addition and connection to unit
  • Inactivating drivers and activating a new one on the same unit
  • choosing correct cable even though VIN is provided when ordered.
Yes, but I don't use it
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ravensworth Logistics uses the ELD and forward facing camera devices. The devices combined with the web portal provide enhanced safety with the cameras, GPS tracking of the tractors, reports to use IFTA filing, and electronic logging of mileage and driver hours. We are also able to provide others with vehicle tracking by providing a temporary link.
  • GPS Tracking
  • ELD
  • Web Portal
  • The process for onboarding new drivers can be cumbersome
  • The ELD devices will not always stay connected to the driver's cell phones
  • The forward facing camera do not always produce video
  • The forward facing camera can be disconnected without a notice being sent to a manager
Well suited to provide ELD, camera and GPS. The GEO fencing can be useful for some businesses. I am still figuring out the other benefits of the product suite.
  • The GPS feature has been instrumental
  • The ease of generating IFTA reports
  • Ease of electronic logging
The support team is always very polite and helpful. Though at times when you need someone to walk you through what needs to be done to correct an issue, they send you and email link with PDF or video instructions. This still requires some figuring out and then what ever is figure becomes some level of trial and error when trying to communicate the same to your driver.
Overall the product has been solid. This is the only product we have used for these services in our short existence. I would say it has been generally easy to figure things out.
The ELD and GPS are adequately reliable. The camera not so much.
It works awesome when connected to the driver's cell phone. It can be a bear when the device disconnects. The onboarding process seems to have changed since I purchased it. We have been kind of winging it and getting lucky.
  • GPS
  • Geofencing
  • IFTA reports
  • Onboarding
  • Keeping driver's connected
  • Camera views
Yes
Works well based upon reports from our drivers.
October 12, 2021

Motive is worth using

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Across the whole organization, Wifi needs to be increased without additional expenses. If the driver is uploading all documents, 1 GB is not enough per vehicle. With 20 drivers loading up all documents(fuel, BOL, scale tickets) we should have available min 1.5GB per driver. Do we need to monitor the driver's consumption? Yes, but also we need the included capacity to operate without having additional cost. There are now so many providers out there doing similar services cheaper, but Motive's operation and support are quite good, sometimes you need to call twice, but is ok. It would be important for Motive to add 2 more features: showing driver's RPM and trailer hand valve operation.
  • 24/7 Eld Support
  • Has a good variety of dashboard features.
  • Implementing rule changes in Canada to update in the system too.
  • Tablet for update should do that without wifi over USB.
  • Wifi needs to be increased without additional cost.
  • Showing RPM of vehicle for minimizing damage on engines.
  • Showing trailer hand valve operation to avoid wear out on trailer brakes.
  • Have the possibility to locate drivers based on location easier. For example, entering a location to find all drivers in an area.
  • Let Tablet update via USB connector not only wifi
Everything is already in the review. They are doing well. When calling as an administrator, I would appreciate being transferred to someone specializing in the area I'm calling about, but, in comparison to other providers, I would choose Motive.
  • The wife to transmit documents 1 GB is not enough should for same price 2GB.
Like I said for administrators, there could be some time based on the topic to go faster— not to say that support is bad. Everybody is in certain areas which are very good, some other wick, easiest way split by strength the department.
Some features in the previous version of Motive were easier so you need to get used to the changes. Explanation on the score should be trained better to get more precise info on how best to evaluate. Some drivers have high scores, while others are doing very well and have lower scores. I need more preciseness in that.
Only one ELD broke down and is being replaced by Motive.
TiTan, Swift Board, and some others.
17
Older drivers need little longer to adapt
1
only me
  • Geofence, Location, HOS, Info about vehicle needs upgrade for Trailer hand valve and engine RPM
  • Geofence
  • Document loading
  • Ifta calculation
  • Geofence should show beside location BOL as well.
Base on the review if other points wick fulfilled, and the price will not increase because the competition is big, and catching up in systems too.
Yes
Titan, but only why there system was out fashioned
The market is rising in competition, and many software with similar or better features are lower in price.
24/7 Service and price, and easy to handle for drivers
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
We are in transportation, so we need to put the devices in phases for cost deduction, unfair for the last device we implemented the price increase of $10.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
During Covid 19 cost and expenses were big factors, the advantage is many providers are greedy to sell 3 years contract. If your product is good you do not need a contract. Contracts are using companies where now their system has some wackiness. We say in some countries who like to make contracts like to fool customers in my opinion.
  • Service 24/7
  • Time
  • Price
  • Training
The last device we got had a $10 increase, this feature can make customers upset and send them to the competition.
I guess middle
Yes
one eld malfunction
Ervin Hernandez is doing a very excellent job, and because of the way he is doing his job I felt convince doing the deal with him.
Support and function most time satisfactory, something for improvement is in the other answers mentioned.
  • Logs
  • Inspection
  • Documents
  • Inconsistency Form, Document Odometer to ECM variating to Vehicle odometer
  • Tablet with USB connector ELD is not updating , so when there is no wifi nothing is updating.
  • This feature really needs a fix.
Yes
How I said previous page that needs improvement, that the eld and tablet without wifi can update
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our drivers are sent a link to the Motive app when their cab-mounted ELD fails and they are authorized to run paper logs. Motive ensures the hours are calculated correctly, drivers without experience on paper logs are compliant and logs are turned in regularly. Without Motive, malfunction recoveries would be extremely difficult and expose the motor carrier to potential significant CSA violations and liability.
  • Driver Logbook app
  • GPS positioning
  • Enable admin panel on mobile browsers
Driver Logs - VERY intuitive
  • Improved FMCSA HOS compliance
  • Limited downtime - freight delivers on time!
have not needed support...it just works!
It's an amazing product and once our contract with our current ELD provider expires, Motive will be on the shortlist to replace them.
Zero issues...the APP is lightweight and loads quickly. Access to the website is quick and straightforward
Driver prefer the intuitive dashboard and ease of use. Admin and fleet managers like the single click access to data, quick updates and robust features.
Omnitracs ELD Solutions, Trimble Fleet Mobility (formerly PeopleNet)
50
drivers - owner operators
1
advanced PC and web skills
  • quick simple and straight forward deployment
  • free hours of service application to test and try out and grow into the product
  • robust product selection
  • using an app to replace the paper log requirement during malfunction...FMCSA allows it!
  • continue to migrate towards another vendor / platform
without questions we will continue to use and encourage others to adopt this software to gain a wider audience and boost development
No
usability is important with our aging drivers. Owner operators dont trust or appreciate change and technology specifically. Anything we can do to ease that burden is a driver retention asset.
not sure I would...I am pleased that my process ended with Motive...realible, quick and easy.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • getting drivers to download the app...the push to mobile feature is great to minimize driver confusion
It just works...so easy and reliable.
no..using free version of driver logs to replace paper logs during ELD malfunctions. Enables use to test drive the product while we wait out the contract from our current vendor.
Had difficulty accessing the admin portal to assist a driver. Called support and determined access is only availalbe on a desktop PC even if being viewed in desktop mode from a table or phone. Support was kind, understadning and patient to explain the process and walk me through some solutions. Much appreciated!
Its one of the most attractive pieces of the software. without usability what is an app really there to do?
  • hours of service ELD
  • accessing the admin panel
Yes
restricted access to the admin panel from a smart phone is challenging and frustrating but i n the scheme of things...no apps can be perfect, right?
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