The truck is only part of the asset.
Ready-mix drums, refuse packers, aerial booms, yellow iron, waste bins, and the crews that run them. Most of the work happens after the parking brake sets — measured in PTO hours, cycle counts, and cubic yards, not windshield miles. Advantage One builds the telematics layer that reflects how the work actually gets done.
Elite Specialized
Vocational · Off-Road · Non-OTR
Mixed assets. Mixed measurement realities.
Vocational fleets run on inputs a standard telematics deployment wasn't designed to capture. PTO hours on mixer drums. Cycle counts on refuse routes. Engine time on off-highway equipment with no standard ECM. Non-OTR hours-of-service rules. And safety models built for crews, not highway miles. The shared pattern: what matters to the operation almost never shows up on the odometer.
Measured in hours and cycles
PTO hours on drums, packers, pumps, and lifts. Refuse pickup cycles. Ready-mix load-to-discharge timing. The operational KPIs live below the vehicle layer.
Mixed asset classes
ECM-equipped trucks run alongside yellow iron that has no standard data bus — excavators, loaders, dozers, compactors. One operation, several tracking approaches.
Non-OTR regulatory reality
Short-haul exemptions, agricultural use, construction-site operation, utility service rules. ELD, IFTA, and compliance configuration look nothing like linehaul.
Off-highway financial mechanics
Federal excise tax on fuel used off-road is recoverable. PTO fuel allocation, per-job cost roll-up, and IFTA treatment all require telemetry the default platform doesn’t wire up on its own.
Safety tuned to the work
Lone workers in utility and timber. Backing events at transfer stations. Aerial lift incidents. Bin-lift exposure. The risk profile isn’t highway collisions — the safety stack has to match.
Built for the asset classes, hours, and rules vocational fleets actually run under.
Every capability below represents deliberate work — integrations written against real vocational systems, configurations tuned to non-OTR regulatory reality, and workflows deployed in production across ready-mix, refuse, utility, construction, and specialty fleets.
Yellow iron to ready-mix
Mixed Asset Expertise
Ready-mix, refuse, cranes, timber, asphalt, cement, and off-highway equipment — tracked with the right approach per asset. ECM-based telemetry where it exists, standalone GPS and CAN interfaces where it doesn’t.
Hours, not just miles
PTO & Secondary Engine Operations
PTO hour capture for drums, packers, pumps, lifts, and auxiliary engines. Secondary engine PM schedules that trigger against real duty cycles — not vehicle odometer guesswork.
Refuse, ready-mix, asphalt
Cycle Time Intelligence
Load, transit, and discharge cycle measurement tuned to each operation — pickup counts for refuse, drum-turn timing for ready-mix, plant-to-jobsite timing for asphalt. Dashboards that speak the work’s language.
IRS Form 4136 / 8849 substantiation
Off-Road Fuel Tax Recovery
Federal excise tax on diesel and gasoline used off-highway is recoverable. GPS-verified engine-hour and PTO telemetry substantiates claims — turning defensible documentation into real cash recovery.
Roll-offs, dumpsters, compactors
Waste Bin & Container Tracking
GPS and BLE tracking on containers — location, lift events, service verification, and route-to-billing reconciliation. Know which bin was serviced, when, and by which route.
Short-haul, ag, construction, utility
Non-OTR ELD Configuration
Short-haul 150-air-mile exemption, agricultural operation rules, construction-site vs. road operation distinction, and utility service carve-outs — configured against the rules vocational operations actually fall under.
Refuse, yellow iron, aerial
Video for Specialty Vehicles
Multi-angle camera systems built for the work — rear/side/hopper cams for refuse, 360° work-zone cams for yellow iron, boom and bucket cams for aerials and cranes. Mount points, triggers, and event capture tuned to each class.
Man-down, duress, check-in
Utility & Lone Worker Safety
Man-down detection, duress alerts, scheduled check-ins, and crew-location workflows integrated with platforms like Blackline Safety and OkAlone. Safety configured for crews in the field — not drivers on the highway.
HR-synced MyGeotab records
Automated Driver Management
Driver-to-vehicle assignment, certification tracking (CDL, endorsements, medicals, equipment quals), and status changes sync from Workday, ADP, UKG, and municipal HRIS directly into MyGeotab — no manual driver record upkeep.
Vocational deployments fail on the details.
Vocational fleets are unforgiving of generic configurations. Wrong ELD ruleset, PTO not wired, secondary engine PM missing, safety workflow built for highway drivers — any of these sinks the deployment. We plan for the details that other deployments skip.
Asset-by-Asset Scoping
Each vocational asset class gets its own tracking approach scoped up front — ECM, CAN interface, standalone GPS, or beacon. No one-size-fits-all install plan.
Safety-First Rollout
Safety stack stood up before productivity telemetry — man-down, duress, backing alerts, aerial lift triggers. Crews adopt the tools faster when the first thing they see is something protecting them.
FMIS + Jobsite Integration
PTO-driven PM schedules into Fleetio, AssetWorks, RTA, or Faster. Equipment utilization and location into Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Trimble, B2W — so job-cost and project systems see what dispatch does.
Change Management Consulting
Vocational crews are skeptical of new technology — rightly so. Stakeholder mapping, field walk-throughs, and crew-level training run by people who’ve stood up telematics at transfer stations and batch plants, not just offices.
What a purpose-engineered vocational stack looks like.
Every customer stack is scoped to the operation. This is a representative example — the integration surface area is typical of the vocational fleets we deliver against.
Hardware
- GO Telematics in-cab devices
- PTO wiring harnesses for secondary engine telemetry
- GO Focus AI with multi-cam for refuse, yellow iron, aerials
- Standalone GPS + CAN interfaces for yellow iron without ECMs
- Bluetooth beacons for waste bins, roll-offs, containers
Platform & Compliance
- MyGeotab with non-OTR ELD configuration
- Short-haul, agricultural, and utility service rules
- PTO + secondary engine PM schedules
- Off-road fuel tax telemetry capture (IRS 4136 / 8849)
- IFTA reporting where applicable
Connected Systems
- FMIS: Fleetio, AssetWorks, RTA, Faster
- HR: Workday, ADP, UKG, municipal HRIS
- Project Mgmt: Procore, Autodesk ACC, Trimble, B2W
- Lone Worker: Blackline Safety, OkAlone
- BI: Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake
Custom Builds
- PTO-hour-triggered secondary engine PM
- Off-road fuel tax rebate pipelines
- Cycle-time dashboards (refuse, ready-mix, asphalt)
- Waste bin route-to-billing reconciliation
- Multi-cam video event workflows for vocational assets
Specialist credentials across the operational layers vocational fleets actually run under.
Every credential below represents a specific investment in an operational domain our vocational customers run in every day — from batch plants to transfer stations to utility yards.
Vocational
Elite
Geotab Elite Specialized Partner — the highest distinction Geotab awards, held across all seven verticals including Vocational.
PTO & Secondary Engine
Expertise
Deep experience wiring, configuring, and automating against PTO and secondary-engine telemetry for drums, packers, pumps, and lifts.
Off-Road Fuel Tax
Enablement
Telemetry and reporting pipelines engineered to substantiate federal excise tax recovery on off-highway fuel use.
Non-OTR ELD
Expertise
Configuration depth across short-haul, agricultural, construction, and utility exemptions — the rules vocational operations actually run under.
Ready to see what fits?
Book a working session with an Advantage One solutions architect. We'll scope the telematics, integration, and automation layer your vocational operation actually needs — from PTO capture to off-road tax recovery to crew safety.
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