The Vehicle History feature in the Motive Dashboard lets fleet managers view and analyze past data for each vehicle. This helps improve fleet efficiency, safety, and compliance.
Overview
Vehicle history provides a comprehensive view of where your vehicles have been, what they’ve done, and how they’ve performed.
Key benefits include:
- Complete trip records: Review route, stop, and movement data in one place.
- Enhanced incident analysis: Easily view safety events, dashcam images, and videos.
- Fleet optimization: Identify patterns to improve vehicle usage and health.
- Streamlined compliance: Access historical data for audits and reporting.
Basics
Vehicle history consolidates your fleet’s activity, telematics, and dashcam data into a single view within the Motive Dashboard.
Viewing vehicle history:
- Go to Fleet View > Vehicles or Fleet View > Live.
- Search for a specific vehicle or click a vehicle name.
- Click the History tab for that vehicle.
Within vehicle history, you can view trip and stop details, telematics data, safety events, and dashcam images.
Viewing Wi Fi details:
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Go to Fleet View > Vehicles > Live.
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Scroll down to Other Details > Wifi Hotspot.
Interpreting the location timeline
The location timeline on the left panel of the vehicle history page shows a chronological list of stops and trips for the selected day.
Key features:
- Switching days: Use the date picker to view history for different days.
- Trip details: Click on any trip to see start and end times, distance, and events.
- Safety events: Spot incidents during trips with highlighted icons.
- Totals: View total driving time and total stops for the selected day.
Understanding the map view
The map view visualizes the vehicle’s route and key events for the selected day.
Key features:
- Vehicle status icons: Green (in motion), yellow (idle), dark gray (stationary), light gray (stale).
- Event icons: Safety and transaction events marked along the route.
- Map trail details: Hover over points to see driver name, location, time, speed, and events.
- Animated replay: Click Play to animate the vehicle’s movement for the day.
- Map layers: Toggle between map views (road, satellite, terrain, etc.) for additional context.
Viewing historical telematics data
Access and analyze historical speed, fuel, and RPM data to monitor vehicle performance.
- Go to a specific Vehicle History page. Click the chart icon in the bottom right.
- View charts for speed, fuel, and RPM throughout the day.
- Click on a trip in the location timeline to zoom in on telematics for that segment.
- Hover over chart points to see exact speed, fuel level, or RPM at any given moment.
Viewing the driver's location history
Log in to the Motive Fleet Dashboard and click Fleet View.
Click Drivers.
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Select a driver from the list.
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Click History and select a specific date using the Date filter.
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Drag the time slider left or right to review driver location throughout the day.
- Hover over the time slider to preview trip images at different times. Click a trip image to expand it and view timestamps for additional context.
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Tap any location pin to view more details.
| Note: To protect the privacy of drivers, Motive will only show the location data when a driver’s duty status is set to Driving or On Duty. |
Viewing dashcam images
Review dashcam images to improve fleet visibility and incident analysis.
- Navigate to the images section in Vehicle History
- Switch between camera angles (road-facing, driver-facing, etc.) using available tabs.
- Drag the playback bar to view images from different times.
- Hover over the playback bar or map trail to preview trip images.
- Click an image to expand and view its timestamp for detailed inspection.
These features support job verification, safety review, and operational transparency.
Viewing dashcam videos
Request and review dashcam video footage for deeper incident investigation.
- Click request video in the Dashcam videos section of the vehicle history.
- In video recall, review available video segments and safety events.
- Select the desired time and duration for your video request.
- Submit the request, and once processed, playback the selected video.
FAQs
How do I find a specific vehicle’s history?
Search for the vehicle on the Motive Dashboard, select it, and navigate to the History page.
Can I see all trips for a vehicle in one view?
Yes, the location timeline lists all trips and stops for the selected day.
What does the dotted line in vehicle history mean?
- This feature provides transparency to inform fleet managers when location data is unavailable, instead of displaying incomplete routes as if they were fully tracked.
- When breadcrumb data is missing in a vehicle's history, dotted lines on the map trail are displayed for the affected areas.
- Fleet Managers can hover over these dotted lines to receive a notification that explains the data is unavailable for that portion of the trip. This differentiation makes it easier to distinguish between complete and incomplete data.
How can I remove access that allows users to see a driver’s location when the driver is not driving or not in a vehicle?
Motive does not currently offer a setting that only shows driver locations while they are actively driving and automatically hides them at all other times. Location in Fleet View is based on the vehicle’s hardware (Vehicle Gateway) and pairing between vehicles and drivers:
- In history views, Motive already protects privacy by only showing driver location when the driver’s duty status is Driving or On Duty. Location history is not shown for Off Duty or Sleeper time.
- In Fleet View > Live, driver tiles are tied to vehicles, so you can track a driver by selecting them from Fleet View. If no driver is currently connected, Fleet View still shows the last connected driver for that vehicle in the Status section.
There is no configurable permission for showing driver location only when driving and hiding it when not in a vehicle. If you need to reduce who can see driver locations at all, you have to do it via roles, permissions, and groups:
- Use Roles and Permissions to restrict which fleet users can access Fleet View and driver/vehicle data, and to limit them to specific groups of drivers/vehicles so only designated managers see those locations.
- Removing or narrowing Fleet View–related access for a role will prevent those users from viewing real-time driver/vehicle locations entirely, not just when drivers are off-duty.
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