Telematics tells you position, not profitability
Cost per kilometre by vehicle, route and driver requires joining telematics, fuel, maintenance and payroll. Most operations join none of them.
Supply chain & industry · North America
You know where the vehicles are. You do not know what they are costing you.
Telematics answered the location question a decade ago. The economics question is still open.
1 in 3+
of inspected trucks carried maintenance defects that would have put them out of service before the crash.
In North America
This is what it actually runs on here.
Platforms in this market
- Samsara
- Motive
- Geotab
- fuel card files
- ELD feeds
Rules that apply here
- the FMCSA ELD mandate
- hours of service rules
- IFTA fuel tax
- DOT inspections
We read the rule before the call. It is the cheapest way to prove we did the work.
What is happening
You know where every vehicle is. You do not know what it is costing you.
Maintenance is scheduled by calendar
While the data to schedule by condition is already streaming off the vehicle and being discarded.
Compliance documents expire without warning
Permits, fitness certificates, insurance and driver licences, tracked in a spreadsheet somebody remembers to open.
Proof of delivery disputes are settled by phone
Because the evidence is a photograph on a driver's personal device.
However hard, whatever it is
Cost per vehicle is one example. Bring the harder question.
This page is about what a vehicle actually costs. If yours is compliance, driver retention or a depot nobody can compare, same method.
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01 We sit with you
Days where the work happens, not a workshop in a meeting room. We watch the job get done and write down the shortcuts nobody wrote down.
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02 We read everything
Your data, your rules, your vendors and their documentation, and the published research on your sector. We report what is actually in there.
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03 We break it to first principles
Not which tool fixes this. What is actually causing it, taken apart until we reach the piece that cannot be divided further.
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04 Then we build
Weeks, not quarters. By this point we are not guessing what to build, and guessing is the thing that makes projects long.
Where we sit
Your tracker stays. We build the cost per vehicle nobody can see.
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What you get
- Per km True cost by vehicle, route and driver
- Condition Maintenance driven by how the vehicle is running
- No lapses Every document tracked with notice
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Built new for you — none of this exists in your stack today
- A box we build when the telematics unit will not share data
- A driver app that logs a defect in twenty seconds
- A cost sheet per vehicle, not per fleet
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The vehicle-cost layer Reads your telematics and fuel cards. Sends no instruction to a driver.
Connectors, one agreed meaning per field, and a model reading what no
field holds. Accuracy measured on your own records.
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- Samsara
- Motive
- Geotab
- fuel card files
- ELD feeds
What you already run — unchanged, and still yours
If the vehicle knows it, we can read it. If the unit will not share, we build our own. A telematics API, a fuel card file, the CAN bus, a tracker that exports nothing. And a box we make when needed.
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No API -
No documentation -
A terminal from 1994 -
It arrives as paper -
The vendor said no -
It reports nothing
Not a list of limits. Name yours on the call.
And once we can reach it, a model can read it. Most of the value here is in the sources nobody ever structured — the note, the letter, the screen.
Intelligence, plumbed in
A driver's defect note is a maintenance signal, not a comment box.
We build the reader, the telematics connector, and a scored test against breakdowns you have already paid for.
How we make AI survive real data-
Connectors -
A semantic layer -
Evals you can check
What changes
Judge us on this, not on what we built.
Per km True cost by vehicle, route and driver
Fuel, maintenance, driver cost and utilisation combined, so route pricing is based on actual economics.
Condition Maintenance driven by how the vehicle is running
Using the telematics data you already pay to collect.
No lapses Every document tracked with notice
Permits, fitness, insurance and licences, surfaced weeks before expiry rather than at a checkpoint.
Who this is for
The people who feel this first
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Fleet Manager -
Operations Director -
Transport Manager -
Finance Head -
Compliance Officer
Straight answers
The questions you would ask on the call
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We already have GPS tracking. What does this add?
Location is the easy data and it is already solved. What is missing is the join — fuel against distance, maintenance against utilisation, driver cost against route revenue. That join is where the margin question gets answered.
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Can you work with our existing telematics provider?
Yes. We read from whatever is installed rather than asking you to change hardware. Replacing telematics is expensive and rarely the actual problem.
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Do you build hardware if we need something not on the market?
Yes, though we would push back first. Most fleet questions are answerable from existing data. Where they genuinely are not, we build the sensor as well as the software.
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Can AI read driver defect notes?
Yes, and they are the earliest maintenance signal you have. We test the reader against breakdowns you have already paid for.
Do you know the rules that apply in the United States and Canada?
For transport & fleet that means the FMCSA ELD mandate, hours of service rules, IFTA fuel tax and DOT inspections. We read the rule before the call, so the first meeting is about your operation rather than about us catching up.
Whatever transport & fleet needs here, we can make it.
What you already run stays where it is. Around it we build software, hardware and the process itself. Here that means a box we build when the telematics unit will not share data.
See everything we build-
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Hardware -
Ways of working -
Whole ventures
Honest about the numbers
The figure above is from FMCSA, Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts, for transport & fleet.
We have not localised it, because a number nobody can check is worth less than a real one plus this sentence. The pattern travels. The size of it in your market is a question for the call.
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