About Geotab
Geotab pricing
Geotab does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
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Geotab Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A Perspective from 20 Years in Heavy Truck
We approach Geotab from a different perspective than many. We have been doing professional services training, implementing, and supporting Transportation Management Systems for 20 years. We have worked with all the major competitors in that time, including Qualcomm/OmniTracs, PeopleNet/Trimble, KeepTrucking/Motive, Samsara, Platform Science, Orbcomm, and others.Geotab is a unique product. We have found it is able to solve business challenges we never through possible, like fully real-time updates and alerts within seconds of a driver situation in the field or being able to re-analyze and report data in arrears months or years after the fact, like building a zone around a section of a terminal parking lot and seeing which drivers *ever* entered that space.While we still provide integration for all the major players, we have been able to create more custom solutions and solve more business challenges with Geotab than any other Telematics system to date, and we look forward to ever-increasing capabilities and features from their team.
Pros
Geotab captures and aggregates real-world data like no other system we've ever seen. You can watch a truck pulling out of the parking lot in real-time or look back a year ago at exactly how a driver backed into a dock over multiple attempts. You can reconstruct what happened in an accident second-by-second, or re-evaluate all the times your drivers entered or exited a specific location over the entire history of your database on the fly.They also believe the data is *yours*, to keep and use as you see fit, and give full access to their system through a completely open API. The user interface is full-featured and simple, but beyond that, it can be modified, added to, and changed endlessly, allowing you to improve the visibility and access to information you find valuable. It is a system that is uniquely unlike any other we've used in Trucking, a true paradigm shift in the technology of Trucking, and transformative for every customer we've worked with.
Cons
Their greatest strength is also their kryptonite. The features are so forward looking and Geotab is continually releasing new ones... it can be difficult to keep legacy systems up to speed with them. "Traditional" players (Qualcomm/OmniTracs, PeopleNet/Trimble) defined how data would be fed to back-end systems over 20 years ago, and most Transportation Management Systems still use those patterns today.The quality and volume of Geotab data is in a whole new league. Finding a middle ground to emulate the "Traditional" data feeds while also updating those TMS platforms to use the data available through Geotab is an ongoing challenge, but well worth the effort.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Automating Fleet Cost Management Infrastructure
The cooperation with Geotab has greatly changed the whole idea of fleet management at the company. By means of an easily navigable dashboard, the platform encompasses all the necessary information about vehicle activity, drivers, and fuel rates.
Pros
Meanwhile, engine data and environmental monitoring enable you to find out what might be wrong with the vehicle before it requires a major repair. Sophisticated data analysis of fuel consumption integrated with driving behavior, route planning, and control of idle time to give tangible recommendations on minimizing fuel use on the vehicles in the fleet.
Cons
If there are many vehicles in the area, for example, in the center of large cities, the map interface may sometimes freeze. Small growth in content customization for automated report frames. Some of the features that are included in the desktop version are, however, missing in the mobile app.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Former user
Not a great experience at all. Decided to switch to an all in one provider.
Pros
The software was the most positive part of the system
Cons
Hard to dig for data, geotabs did not always work, customer service was poor, not technical in install support.
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SamsaraReasons for Switching to Geotab
I did not choose them, i actually left Geotab in favor of Samsara- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Not the best
Pros
Easy to install and set up, did not take long at all.
Cons
Not very accurate, constantly having trouble with the devices, either they stop working completely or wont move on the map
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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review of product
its been ok, but product needs to be more robust, has have more options
Pros
easy to use, app for drivers is very simple, and drivers don't have to repeat inputs daily
Cons
no integration, no app for carrier, delayed on tracking, not open customer service on weekends