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Executives from Werner, Bennett and Motive told an ATA session that AI-driven camera alerts, fueling guidance and faster event reviews are gaining driver acceptance when rollouts are explained well. They said adoption is more cultural than technical and that people keep final judgment.
Continue reading: Fleet execs say AI cab alerts and video won over skeptical driversLas Vegas Grand Prix Inc. has picked EquipmentShare to supply connected equipment for building, running and tearing down the Formula 1 race site. The company's T3 platform will report machine health and limit who can start equipment on the Strip-side footprint.
PACCAR announced PACCAR Connect on October 19, 2026, a factory-integrated platform combining an in-cab touchscreen, telematics and fleet applications for Kenworth and Peterbilt Class 8 trucks. Availability is planned for early 2027, according to a report by AD HOC NEWS citing the company.
Teletrac Navman has named Ricardo Buranello as CEO three months after private equity firm Respida Capital bought a majority stake from Vontier in a deal valuing the business at US$220 million. He succeeds Alain Samaha, who stays on the board, as the company says it will keep building its cloud-based, AI-powered platform and expand into new industries and regions.
Vehicle-as-a-service platform Coastr has partnered with connected vehicle data firm Volteras to give rental and leasing operators OEM data and remote access without aftermarket devices. Mileage and vehicle health data now covers 31 of the 36 OEM brands Volteras supports, with keyless entry on four makes.
Motive Technologies has launched Agents, autonomous AI tools designed to act on compliance, maintenance, safety and idling issues rather than only alert fleet managers. Per SiliconANGLE, existing customers can deploy them starting October 19, with a feature to build your own Agents planned for early next year.
Velociti's redesigned Velogic dashboard brings technology health, repair tracking and hardware inventory into one portal, alongside its VeloCare managed services program. It adds an AI agent for questions about connected fleet technology, with rollout starting in the fourth quarter of 2026.
IndexBox has published a market report projecting sustained growth in global GPS trackers through 2035, with fleet management as the largest end-use segment. The report points to value shifting from hardware to software, analytics and subscriptions, though it gives no absolute market size in the material reviewed.
SambaSafety's fourth annual Telematics Report, based on 740 fleet, insurance and brokerage professionals, finds fleets are more open to sharing telematics data with insurers than insurers and brokers assume. The share of transportation fleets providing data to insurers rose from 29% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, while more non-sharing fleets say the value is not clear.
Samsara has released Agent Studio, a platform available to all its customers for building chat and voice AI agents on fleet data without writing code. The company says agent adoption has risen sevenfold since June and cites customer results in hours-of-service monitoring, reporting and driver support.
Trackunit and DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand, announced a partnership that lets DEWALT Tool Connect tools be detected across the Trackunit Network. Contractors can locate DEWALT tools through equipment already connected on site, with tool location data shown inside Trackunit.
Bobcat's API gates fault codes and idle hours behind a premium subscription, while Hitachi offers 10- and 60-minute data instead of daily updates, partly as a paid option. Together they show why some fleets get better data from third-party telematics devices.
As construction fleets connect more machines, the next step for telematics is a real-time view of jobsite operations rather than dots on a map. Mixed-fleet platforms and AI could turn that view into decisions about idle equipment, maintenance and rentals.
Samsara and Motive are both reporting 30% annual recurring revenue growth, but their investments tell a bigger story. Despite the industry's focus on AI and software, significant spending is still going toward hardware, supply chains, and the people needed to deploy and support connected fleet technology.
EquipmentShare says at-fault DOT recordable incidents per million miles fell 37% from 2024 to 2025, the first full year after it deployed T3 dash cameras and driver safety tools in January 2025. The figures come from T3's own case study, so they are vendor-reported and have not been independently verified.
Geotab says it has received a certification from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to integrate the J1979-2 protocol into its Clean Truck Check compliance solution. The company says its GO9 devices can identify which protocol a truck uses and collect the required emissions data without manual steps.
General Motors announced OnStar Fleet Intelligence on Sept. 30, a platform that pulls vehicle data and connected services into one dashboard for fleet operators. It includes a Fleet AI Assistant that answers questions about fuel, idling and utilization in plain language.
Caterpillar's Digital Marketplace now lists a NextGen ISO 15143-3 (AEMP 2.0) API that delivers time-series readings for individual machines. It adds history for location, hours, idle time, fuel and engine condition to the snapshot data Caterpillar already offered.
Openreach, which operates the UK's second largest commercial fleet, has started a trial of Geotab telematics with volunteer engineers. If the trial succeeds, the system will be deployed across its more than 23,000 company cars and commercial vans.
Trackunit has released the Spot S300, a battery-powered tracker that connects unpowered assets such as trailers, containers and welders to its platform without wiring. The device has been available for order since Oct. 1, with first shipments scheduled for November.
Inspiration Fleet has introduced Garage 2.0, an AI-based platform that pulls data from vehicle, telematics, fuel, energy and operational systems into one environment. The company says customers can choose and switch technology vendors without migrating the whole fleet management platform.
