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Geotab

3.3· 33 reviews · Fleet Management
· 103 reviews on TruckMyApps
2.0out of 5

Adonis Kerluke's review of Geotab

I've used Geotab for eight years. Last summer, in the middle of wildfire season, the GPS on truck #47 froze and kept reporting the same rest-area coordinates for sixteen hours in the middle of a 500-mile run, so we had no real-time location and couldn't verify the trailer was still on route. Support didn't pick up the ticket for almost two days, by which time the delayed load triggered a $4,200 penalty from the customer and additional recovery expenses; that's money straight off the bottom line for a 75-truck outfit with a tight maintenance budget. The dashboard has so many cluttered menus that when something is actively wrong, finding actionable logs is needlessly slow, and our techs said the device logs were of little help. Two stars because the idea is useful, but when a single hardware/comms failure turns into a multi-thousand-dollar mess and support is slow, it makes me rethink relying on it for critical runs.

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Jennie CronaJan 2026

After twenty years managing a 40-truck Midwest fleet, I jumped onto Geotab to get a handle on our maintenance chaos. The engine diagnostics - especially the real-time DTC alerts that translate codes into plain English with suggested actions - is what sold me. Last winter it flagged a coolant-temp sensor fault two days before a long haul that would have left us stranded; scheduling the fix ahead of time saved a night and a towing bill. Setting custom thresholds for alerts was a bit fiddly and the mobile app buries some options, so there’s a learning curve. Still, the diagnostic alerts cut our unexpected engine downtime noticeably and paid for the subscription within months.

Missouri HarveyJan 2026

I've used Geotab for about five years. One winter on I-80 with a loaded trailer it pinged me about a coolant-temp spike and a P0480 fan fault before the cab gauge even warmed up - pulled off at the next exit, swapped trucks, and what could've been a blown head and a week out of service turned into a quick shop visit the next morning. I'm an owner-operator with two trucks in the Midwest and that early alert saved me big, though the web dashboard can be a little clunky at times.

Jordon LittelJan 2026

Three years on the West Coast running a small three-truck outfit made me brace for a long rollout and a weekend of paperwork, and the admin settings did take a bit of poking to sort. The surprise was the GO unit - plugged into the OBD in ten minutes and I was watching live locations and engine codes on the map, which was the quick win I needed.

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