April 2, 2026

Safety & compliance

CARB Clean Truck Check: keep your emissions checks compliant without slowing down your fleet

For years, emissions compliance followed a pattern where a vehicle was scheduled for testing, removed from service, sent to a shop, passed inspection,...

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March 17, 2026

Student safety

6 Ways School Districts Can Get Additional Funding for Transporting Students with Disabilities

A step-by-step guide for finding and applying for new sources of funding Every student deserves reliable transportation to and from school. Transporti...

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December 5, 2025

Best practices | Fleet management

Fleet management platform traps to avoid.

Selecting your fleet management platform is both a major opportunity and a major risk. The right solution delivers safety, efficiency and lasting savi...

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September 26, 2025

Student safety

School bus safety: getting every child home safe

The school bus door swings shut, and a child waves from the window as the bus pulls away. For parents, it’s a familiar ritual: watching their child di...

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September 9, 2025

Dash cams | Fleet safety

Insurance discounts start here: fleet dash cams

Insurance premiums? Rising. Accident risks? Rising. Fraud? Yep—also rising. But there’s a way to push back—and earn real insurance discounts—using das...

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September 3, 2025

Fleet safety

Hurricane season: shield your fleet from the storm

It’s mid-September. One of your drivers is hauling freight along the East Coast or somewhere near the Gulf. It started as just another rainy day—nothi...

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August 5, 2025

Maintenance

Predictive maintenance: stop downtime before it starts

If you manage a fleet, you know the pressure. Long-haul trucks, local delivery vans, utility vehicles—you feel it. The one thing that threatens your u...

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July 21, 2025

Best practices | Fleet management | Student transportation | Vocational

Get the fleet tech you need, without jumping through hoops.

Yes, procuring fleet tech through a cooperative (co-op) is a best practice. You know that, but you may not realize how much modern fleet management te...

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July 15, 2025

Industry news

Our new blog: built for the road ahead

If you manage a fleet, you know the pressure. Long-haul trucks, local delivery vans, utility vehicles—you feel it. The one thing that threatens your u...

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April 10, 2025

Best practices | Fleet management | Vocational

Three ways to increase fuel efficiency during PTO use

Fuel prices fluctuate, but one thing stays the same: Filling the gas tanks for heavy-duty fleet vehicles takes a hefty chunk of budget. Not unlike fee...

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April 9, 2025

Fleet management basics for budding field service business legends

If you’re reading this, you have a field services business that needs to manage its vehicles more efficiently. But you’re also new to fleet management...

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April 9, 2025

Win more RFPs with transportation fleet tech that proves your value

Winning an RFP for a public or student transportation contract means earning trust. Your client believes your operation will safely and reliably suppo...

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April 9, 2025

Outsmart asset thieves with tiny trackers that hide in plain sight

Thieves who target construction companies and worksites are looking for fast profits with low risk. They aim for high-value, high-demand, unattended a...

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April 9, 2025

From OOPS to OOS—avoid these 4 CVSA violations.

Imagine losing uptime to a broken lightbulb. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) International Roadcheck happens every year. To some, these ...

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April 9, 2025

Stop internal fuel theft with fuel tracking & analytics.

When every drop counts, track every drop. Fuel accounts for about 24 percent of a fleet’s annual budget, and keeping each vehicle’s tank full is no sm...

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April 2, 2025

Best practices | Fleet management | Vocational

Control more costs with custom data visualizations.

Sophisticated, complex fleets with specialized vehicles and assets in multiple locations need more data and insights than essential fleet reports prov...

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January 16, 2025

Fleet management | Student transportation | Vocational | Freight | Transit

GPS-only vs. TCU telematics: The difference runs fleet deep.

How well you understand your fleet enhances (or limits) your control over it. Fleet tracking tech is a must-have, but not all tech is the same. They’r...

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November 5, 2024

Best practices | Fleet management | Student transportation

Optimize every school bus fleet using GPS & vehicle data.

"One of the fundamental barriers to making the fullest use of any school bus fleet is not knowing how it actually operates." – Kent Orr, General Manag...

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October 15, 2024

Save costs with AI-powered, data-driven predictive maintenance.

Healthy trucks help maintain a healthy bottom line. Even if you already take an aggressive approach to preventative maintenance and repairs, you can s...

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June 19, 2024

Best practices | Fleet management | Student transportation

How to choose your ideal school bus fleet management partner

School bus fleets increasingly rely on technology to address the complex needs of transporting students. Choosing a fleet management solutions provide...

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February 5, 2024

Best practices | Fleet management | Freight

Make your fleet more resilient to today’s challenges.

Each year, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) releases the results of its annual survey to determine what the top challenges are fo...

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January 24, 2024

Best practices | Fleet management | Student transportation

11 ways to do more without blowing your fleet’s budget

Managing a school bus fleet means addressing a universe of various, labor-intensive tasks, each of which needs to run cost effectively. District and p...

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September 18, 2023

Best practices | Fleet management | Student transportation

Prep your bus fleet for rolling back to school

Evaluate your operations while your buses are idle. As schools, parents and students prep for resuming classes, so do student transportation fleets. W...

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September 6, 2023

Student safety | Student transportation

Plan ahead to act fast during school bus emergencies.

Prepare to respond swiftly with real-time fleet data. What’s harder than planning for an emergency onboard a school bus? Explaining why you didn’t.

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August 26, 2023

Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight | Transit

California intrastate ELD facts, exemptions and help (oh my)

What is the California intrastate ELD mandate? California intrastate commercial drivers are currently required to record their hours of service (HoS)....

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August 7, 2023

Student transportation | Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight | Transit

Down and dirty facts about the CARB Clean Truck Check program.

What is CARB and what’s the new program? “CARB” stands for California Air Resources Board.

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July 18, 2023

Best practices | Student transportation | Vocational | Freight | Transit

Sidestep these pitfalls of self-installing fleet telematics.

Avoid rolling out the welcome mat for problems. Capturing high-quality data from complex commercial fleet vehicles and assets requires an OEM-grade te...

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June 13, 2023

Fleet management | Student transportation | Electric school buses

Overcome 3 common barriers to EV school bus adoption.

Electrifying your pupil transportation fleet is easier than you may realize. School bus fleet electrification has gained momentum over the past severa...

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April 20, 2023

Student transportation | Grants & funding

Add telematics to your EPA-funded EV school buses.

Realize each EV bus’s potential as you support clean air initiatives. According to the EPA, school buses travel about four billion miles and transport...

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December 13, 2022

Driver performance | Freight

Gamification’s place in business

For years, gamification was a buzzword; a trend surrounded by hype. Today it’s almost standard for creating customer engagement. As consumers, many of...

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December 13, 2022

Driver performance | Vocational | Freight

Fleet gamification for commercial drivers

Traditionally, fleet managers have taken a reactive approach to managing their drivers’ performance. However, that approach offers drivers little oppo...

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December 9, 2022

Fleet management | Driver performance | Freight

Driver Retention: How Workflow Unification Helps.

According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), the trucking industry could be short 160,000 drivers by 2028. Finding and keeping quality driver...

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July 7, 2022

Safety & compliance | Freight

Top 5 differences between U.S. and Canadian ELD

Avoid ELD violations by knowing the details. The Canadian ELD looks much like the U.S. ELD, but there are key differences between the two. Each countr...

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March 3, 2022

Fleet management | Student transportation | Vocational | Freight | Transit

Adapt by adopting fleet management apps.

Mobile tools are no longer optional. Since Apple launched its AppStore in 2008, the number of available mobile apps has soared. By Q1 of 2021, the Goo...

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January 25, 2022

Student safety | Student transportation

School bus tracking apps ease pain points for everyone.

Times have changed. So has the need for transparency. Riding the school bus is different than when many of us were students. For one thing, deploying ...

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October 29, 2021

Driver performance | Freight

Change truck driver turnover into retention.

What do you need to do your job? Effective, compatible programs and applications. Clear, reliable communication channels. And either a comfortable off...

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July 21, 2021

Vocational | Safety & compliance | Driver safety | Freight | Transit

Protect against staged crashes and nuclear verdicts

Refute false claims with irrefutable, data-based evidence. Staged accidents and false insurance claims against commercial trucks is big business. A 20...

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July 9, 2021

Student safety | Student transportation

Why the Zonar and BusPatrol Partnership is Pivotal for Student Safety

Earlier this year, Zonar announced an exclusive partnership with BusPatrol, the leader in stop-arm enforcement technology. Together, we are committed ...

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February 25, 2021

Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight

Zonar and the Canadian ELD mandate

We’re at the ready to help you be compliant. Now effective as of June 12, 2021, the Canadian ELD mandate is similar to the U.S. ELD mandate, but featu...

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January 27, 2021

Safety & compliance | Freight

What is a CSA score?

What is a CSA score? Making the roads safer means holding motor carriers and drivers accountable for their role in preventing accidents. With that goa...

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September 30, 2020

Safety & compliance | Driver safety | Freight

Top 5 CVSA citations

One lapse in judgement can cost you—or be avoided. An estimated 94% of crashes involve driver-related behavior. Each year, the Commercial Vehicle Safe...

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August 18, 2020

Student safety | Student transportation

Contact tracing in schools

What is contact tracing? Contact tracing is a public health and safety practice of following a pathogen as it spreads from person to person. By implem...

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July 2, 2020

Best practices | Freight

Personal Conveyance Best Practices

What is personal conveyance? Personal conveyance (PC) is one of several special duty statuses commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers can log. This off...

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June 18, 2020

Fleet management | Student transportation | Vocational | Freight | Transit

Fundamentals of fleet management

Fleets don’t run themselves. Commercial motor carriers, construction and utility companies, state and city agencies, public transit, school bus transp...

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June 3, 2020

Fleet management | Fleet health | Freight

Keep your fleet nimble to keep up

These past weeks have been an exercise in logistic agility for commercial fleets. Carriers and drivers have been forced to rapidly adapt to changing d...

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April 1, 2020

Fleet management | Transit

Life still rides on transit

Over the years, public transit has earned its reputation for being one of the safest modes of transportation. Yet, COVID-19 has forced many agencies t...

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January 30, 2020

Fleet management | Student transportation | Vocational | Freight | Transit

5 Zonar resources you may not know about

Have what you need to make the most of your Zonar solution? Let’s make sure. Browse the resources and tools included below to see if one or more could...

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December 5, 2019

Best practices | Safety & compliance | Transit

5 keys to PTASP-compliant vehicle inspections

The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) rule by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) went into effect on July 19, 2019. The FTA has o...

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November 7, 2019

Student transportation | Fleet health | Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight | Transit

Where DVIR and eDVIR stop, EVIR® ensures compliance.

Imagine knowing your fleet inspections are being performed properly—every time. How would it feel, knowing all i’s are dotted, all t’s are crossed? No...

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October 14, 2019

Best practices | Student transportation

5 Ways Geofences Provide More Control Over Your Fleet

School transportation departments face a daily collection of challenges. Chief among them are keeping students safe and reducing costs. Over recent ye...

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September 27, 2019

Driver performance | Freight

Get to know fleet gamification

Good drivers are hard to come by. Bad drivers can be hard to let go because of the industry-wide shortage. Your choices may seem limited if a driver k...

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August 6, 2019

Driver performance | Driver safety | Freight | Transit

Help your drivers fight highway hypnosis

How well do you remember the drive to work today? What about every mile of every road trip you’ve taken? Few people recall each drive with absolute cl...

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August 1, 2019

Grants & funding | Vocational | Freight | Transit

FHWA Funding Opportunity for Transportation Technology Grants

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is offering $60 million in grant funding for organizations to use for implementing or initiating transportat...

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July 16, 2019

Driver performance | Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight | Transit

Dangers of Speeding and Aggressive Driving

Speeding kills. However, it doesn’t have to be fatal to be costly. A report by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) found that in 2...

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July 11, 2019

Safety & compliance | Freight

The Latest on the Canadian ELD Mandate

As of June 13, 2019, the Canadian ELD mandate is final. However, federally regulated, commercial fleets in compliance with the U.S. ELD mandate won’t ...

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June 12, 2019

Best practices | Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight | Transit

What to look for in an ELD provider

The final deadline to comply with the FMCSA’s ELD mandate was December 16, 2019. Compliance is mandatory unless you're exempt, and by now you should h...

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May 30, 2019

Best practices | Student transportation | Vocational | Freight | Transit

6 Things to Look for in a Telematics Provider

Smart fleet management is an investment, in more ways than upfront costs. Budgets are important, but so is overall service, support and how well the t...

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July 2, 2018

Vocational | Safety & compliance | Freight | Transit

Top 6 ELD Exemptions

The ELD rule applies to most motor carriers and drivers currently required to maintain Records of Duty Status (RODS) per Part 395, 49 CFR 395.8(a). Th...

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June 6, 2018

Driver performance | Freight | Fuel management

Improving Driver Behavior to Maximize Fuel Economy

According to the American Trucking Association, over 70% of all the freight tonnage moved in the U.S. goes on trucks. Without the industry and our tru...

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June 6, 2018

Fleet management | Vocational | Freight | Transit

From Connected Trucks/Fleets to Smart Fleet Management

When you say “connected fleet”, it invokes ideas of driverless trucks spanning the nation's highways communicating with each other and the highway inf...

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January 11, 2018

Student transportation | Grants & funding

How schools pay for bus technology with Medicaid reimbursements

School districts have to balance being safety conscience with being good community stewards and fiscally responsible in managing costs. When future bu...

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September 11, 2017

Student safety | Student transportation

Driving the School Bus Forward

According to the American School Bus Council, school buses transport 26 million of the 50 million students who attend school each day, with an average...

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May 23, 2017

Safety & compliance | Freight

What to Know About Roadside Inspections

When drivers look in their rear view mirror and spot a state patrol vehicle, they probably imagine potential scenarios that could take place. The road...

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May 16, 2017

Fleet management | Fleet health | Vocational | Freight | Transit

Beat the heat: Keep your fleet safe and efficient this summer

Summer is the unofficial travel season. According to AAA, nearly 100 million Americans are expected to travel over the summer. Most travelers will be ...

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September 28, 2016

Student safety | Student transportation | Safety & compliance

Paul Lee School Bus Safety Law

What does the Paul Lee School Bus Safety Law require? The California Paul Lee School Bus Safety Law—also known as the Paul Lee Law or child check bill...

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