Hours of service, before they become a problem
Each step van driver's duty status from Geotab, read against your 12-hour shift, 10 hours of rest and 60 hours in 7 days. Who is close shows on the Loadout and on the hours page, while there is still time to change the day.
Duty status on the Loadout
- Status: on duty, driving or off duty, beside each driver on a step van, with the van they are on.
- Not on the ELD: fifteen minutes after the shift starts with no status, management is told.
- Off duty mid-route: a fresh off duty during the route, longer than a break, is flagged.
- After the route: still on duty half an hour after the route ended shows on the Loadout.
Shift, rest and week, worked out
The hours page shows each driver's shift so far against 12 hours, the rest before it against 10, and the last 168 hours against 60, with a warning and a critical line before each. Every number is your rule, set once, and every figure says it is an estimate, not Geotab's own verdict.
Warnings before the shift, from payroll too
Payroll punches give the same picture for every driver. Anyone near 60 hours is flagged on the Loadout and the Scheduler before the shift, and on the clock their hours left count down, with the time to clock out by.
Alerts and a draft when it goes wrong
- Ops Alerts: shift, rest and week warnings post once per driver, each switched on by you.
- Last night: yesterday's ELD issues, listed the next morning.
- Draft: turn a day's issue into a coaching or write-up draft for you to review.
Questions
Is this Geotab's own hours of service?
No. It is your DSP's rules read against what Geotab recorded, labelled as an estimate. Geotab's own rule sets are left as they are.
Does anything get written to Geotab?
No. Fleet Cadence only reads the duty status.
Can we change the 12, 10 and 60?
Yes. Each limit and each warning is a setting an admin can change.
The rest of the day
See it on your own routes
Your first month of the whole platform is free, for everyone, whenever you start. A week of real routes, punches and write-ups is the only way to judge this, and that takes a month to build up.