Telematics tracks what has a modem. Fleet tracks the rest.
Traditional telematics puts a wired GPS unit on your biggest, newest, powered machines — for location, routing, and compliance. Fleet is built for everything else on site: the forklifts, lifts, generators, attachments and older iron that never had a modem, tracked by presence and an hour meter instead. Here's where each one fits.
Where each one fits.
On-road and powered vehicles — location, routing, driver behavior, and compliance.
On-site equipment — presence, hour-meter readings, and field workflow.
The machines worth a wired cellular unit — usually the newest, largest iron.
The whole mixed fleet: attachments, generators, light towers, tools, and older machines that never had a modem.
Professional wired fitting, one machine at a time — often a shop visit.
Stick on a Bluetooth tag or scan a QR code. Crew phones and site hubs do the rest.
A hardware unit plus a monthly cellular plan each — too much for a $2k attachment.
A low-cost tag per asset, so tracking the long tail actually pencils out.
GPS lat/long breadcrumb trails; struggles indoors and under cover.
Presence and proximity — which site, yard, or hub — that holds up in shops, under structures, and dead zones.
OEM portals silo data by manufacturer; a separate login per brand.
One view across every brand and asset type, whatever built it.
Procurement, a wired install per machine, and a contract before you see value.
A 14-day free trial — tag a few assets and see it on your own gear first.
Mostly passive tracking.
QR check-ins, hour corrections, and maintenance orders from a phone — offline-ready.
Often locked in the vendor's portal.
Exports out — raw, structured, documented — and runs on-premise if you need it.
When telematics is the right tool.
If you run an on-road truck fleet and need lat/long breadcrumb trails, ELD and hours-of-service compliance, dashcams, or driver scorecards — that's exactly what traditional telematics is for, and Fleet doesn't pretend to do it. Keep the box on the trucks.
Fleet is for the equipment in the yard the box was never going to cover. Most fleets run both — the telematics units on the highway machines, Fleet across everything else — and use Fleet for the one view that spans all of it.
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