Live Tracking

Fleet View’s live tracking offers a real-time view of your fleet’s activity, enabling quick decision-making with visibility into vehicle and asset status and location. Live tracking in Motive’s Fleet View provides real-time visibility into your entire fleet, allowing you to monitor vehicles, drivers, and assets as they move. This tool helps improve operational efficiency and ensure safety.

Overview

Fleet View’s live tracking offers a real-time view of your fleet’s activity, enabling quick decision-making with visibility into vehicle, asset status, and location.

• Instant awareness: Monitor locations and statuses live for quick decisions.
• Efficient organization: Filter and group entities to focus on what matters.
• Actionable detail: Access telematics and live data for every asset.
• Improved dispatch: Quickly locate and deploy resources near any location.

Basics

Live tracking in Fleet View provides real-time monitoring of vehicles, drivers, and assets. It allows fleet managers to optimize routes, manage fleet activity, and respond to incidents as they happen. Key features include:

• Filtering: View subsets of your fleet by type, status, duty, and more.
• Travel groups: See which entities are traveling together in real time.
• Statuses and icons: Instantly recognize the activity of each asset.
• Map controls: Visualize fleet movements with dynamic maps.
• Live location & telematics: Access real-time data for smarter decisions.

Using travel groups

Travel groups track which vehicles, drivers, and assets are traveling together. This feature is useful for monitoring movements and improving coordination.

• Where to find: Travel groups are displayed in the left sidebar of the Fleet View Live page.

• Information provided: View live location, paired drivers and vehicles, and active dispatch assignments.

Viewing fleet data

Use the filtering tools to quickly narrow down the fleet data you need.

• Search: Locate vehicles, drivers, assets, geofences, or locations.

• All Groups: Find entities more quickly and order the list for the preferred option. You can also use the given filters to customize your search.

• Filters: Apply filters by entity type, status, duty, dispatch, and MIL.

• Sort options: Sort your fleet by status, recent updates, or dispatch priority.

Statuses and icons

Fleet View uses different statuses and icons to indicate activity:

• Moving: Vehicle is actively moving.
• Idle: Vehicle is on but has not moved in 3 minutes.
• Stationary: Vehicle or asset is stopped with the engine off.
• Stale: Location data is outdated.

Each status has a unique icon for quick identification.

The icons are also displayed alongside the entities to give an overview of their status.

• Legend: The Legend explains what each icon and its color indicate:

Note: This is the icon of an Electric Vehicle (EV) when it is charging.

Using map controls

Customize map view to gain deeper insights into fleet activity:

• Zoom and pan: Move and zoom in on specific areas.
• Map layers: View points of interest by switching between road, satellite, and traffic views.

• Geofences and landmarks: Enable overlays to visualize geofenced areas and custom landmarks.

Using Vehicle Follow Mode 

Currently, this option is only available for fleets with more than 20 Vehicle Gateways on their account with Motive. For fleets who are not enabled to use the ELD product, the Follow Mode button does not display. The map style in this case defaults to user preference.

1. Log in to the Motive Fleet Dashboard. The Fleet View displays. Select a vehicle using the search bar, and other filters.

You can also select a specific vehicle from the Vehicles tab on Fleet View. Click a vehicle to view its details with the Live tab opened by default. 

 2. Click Enter Follow Mode.

Note: Pan the map to exit the follow mode automatically. You can view the vehicle details mentioned on the vehicle's page displaying speed, fuel, etc. for some vehicles.

3. To exit the follow mode, click Exit Follow Mode.

4. The Exit Follow Mode button simply toggles to follow mode as soon as the mode is disabled in these cases:

• The entity is stationary.
• The fleet clicks the Exit Follow Mode button.
• The fleet pans the map while follow mode is enabled.

Using location & proximity search  

Quickly find and act on specific locations using the location and proximity search feature:

• Search a location: Enter a location in the search bar.
• Pin the location: The spot will be marked on the map.
• Nearby entities: View drivers or vehicles sorted by proximity to the location.

1. Log in to the Motive Fleet Dashboard. 

2. Enter a location in the Search bar.

3. Fleet View also supports searching for Legal Land Descriptions (United States Only), Plus Codes, and Coordinates. The following are some examples of accepted formats:

Coordinates Formats

• Decimal degrees (DD): 37.7856552, -122.3984543
• Degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS): 37°47'08.4"N 122°23'54.4"W

Plus Codes

• Local Code & City - JM7C+JQ Seattle
• Full Code (including area code) -  84VVJM7C+JQ

Legal Land Descriptions/Legal Subdivisions 

• State: NM
• Principal Meridian: New Mexico Meridian (principal meridian code: 23)
• Township Number: 33
• Township Fraction: 0
• Township DIR: S
• Range: 20
• Range Fraction: 0
• Range DIR: W
• (Optional) First Division Type: SN
• (Optional) First Division Number: 31

Accepted Formats

• NM230330S0200W0SN310
• NM, New Mexico Meridian, 33, 0, S, 20, 0, W, SN, 31
• NM 23 33 0 S 20 0 W SN 31
• NM, 23, 33, 0, S, 20, 0, W, SN, 31

4. You will see a pin at the specified location and can either choose to List nearby entities, View History, or Create a geofence here at this location.

5. Click Create a geofence here to see the geofence creation screen at the selected location.

6. Click List nearby entities to see a list of entities sorted by distance displayed within the Fleet View.

Note: Fleet View displays the closest street address or plus code when searching by coordinates. The search option for Fleet View displays coordinate information and allows you to copy this information for every location and use it later when required.

Viewing live data

For real-time data on any asset, tap a vehicle, driver, or asset in the list to open the Entity Live page. What you will see:

• Current location and route on the map.
• Speed and movement details.
• Last updated timestamp.
• Assigned driver and vehicle pairing.
• Telematics data, including GPS accuracy, engine hours, odometer readings, and historical movement.

You can see one of the three views mentioned below:

• Vehicles Live View: This detailed view shows information regarding the status of your vehicle, location data, current Driver, telematics, Smart Dashcam footage, and live map view.

• Drivers Live View: This detailed view shows information regarding the status of your Driver, location data, current vehicle, hours of service, other details, and a live map view.

• Assets Live View: This detailed view shows information regarding the status of your asset, location data, battery status, telematics, other details, and a live map view.

• You can switch between Live and History tabs within any detailed view of an entity. Click the History tab to view the location history of an entity.

Sharing live location from mobile browser

1. Open a browser on your mobile phone and type www.gomotive.com.

2. Log in to the Motive Fleet Dashboard, Fleet View opens by default, tap Live. This will open a dropdown menu.

                                                         

3. From the dropdown menu, select Vehicles to view the list of all fleet vehicles.

                                                         

4. Find and tap on the vehicle you wish to share the location for. This will open a detailed view of that specific vehicle.

                                                         

5. Tap on the three dots in the top-left corner of the screen and select Sharing is On.

                                                         

6. The Share Location dialog box shows the selected vehicle, allowing you to set an expiration time and add optional notes to the link.

                                                         

7. You can now share the link with brokers, customers, or any relevant stakeholders via email, messaging apps, or any communication channel of your choice.

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