Heavy vehicle fleet management

On a heavy vehicle fleet, a truck off the road is not an inconvenience: it is a round that does not happen. You need to know every morning which trucks are available, which due dates fall this month and where the money is going. Dadycar brings those answers into one tool, sites included.

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Three facts that matter

  • Up to -70 % of the time spent producing fleet reports.
  • Three modular pillars: fleet management, telematics, car sharing. You take what you need.
  • With or without a device: a GPS-OBD device or a connected OEM vehicle, depending on the vehicles and on fitting constraints.

Your day as a fleet manager

  • A truck off the road is a round that does not happen. Operations call you before you have finished calling the garage.
  • Regulatory checks are heavier and more frequent than on a light vehicle. They fall every year, sometimes every six months, on dozens of vehicles.
  • Odometers are the key to everything and they are wrong. With no reliable reading, neither preventive servicing nor contract mileage holds up.

What Dadycar gives you

The fleet is entered once, with its sites, its contracts and its due dates. You stop rebuilding the information in a spreadsheet at every month end.

Fleet availability and status

The dashboard tracks the availability rate, the vehicles off the road and the status of every vehicle, with numerical targets and a filter by site.

Regulatory reminders and due dates

Roadworthiness tests, insurance, expiring documents: every due date comes up with a named owner and a reminder template (reminders and due dates).

Maintenance plans by category

Fluids, brakes, battery, engine, tyres. Preventive servicing triggers on a mileage or calendar due date, not on good intentions.

Telematics alerts with adjustable thresholds

Next service in kilometres or by date, engine warning light, DTC fault codes, tyre pressure and temperature wheel by wheel. You choose the severity and the recipient.

Trips and odometer history

Readings come in through telematics or are entered by hand. Contract mileage and overruns become verifiable (trips and mileage).

Documents, claims and expenses

Contracts, insurance and licences with their expiry date, claim reports with repair tracking, costs per vehicle with invoice and supplier.

How it works

  1. 1Import the fleet and your sites. Every vehicle carries its contract, its driver, its site and its reference garage.
  2. 2Load the due dates and the servicing plans. Regulatory checks and services go out as reminders to the right owners.
  3. 3Plug in telematics if it helps. A device or a connected OEM vehicle, then set the alert thresholds (connectors and integrations).

Related roles and industries

  • Maintenance and operations manager: arbitrating between today's emergency and preventive work (see the page).
  • Purchasing manager: renewing a truck, comparing lease offers (see the page).
  • Construction: tippers, plant carriers and scattered sites (see the page).

Let us look at your due dates for the next three months

Bring the list of your trucks and their test dates: we show what the due date calendar looks like, live.

What you will have to defend internally

  • “Our drivers will refuse to be located.” Zones and time slots limit collection to working time, in line with the CNIL's guidance.
  • “Our vehicles are too old for a device.” Due dates, servicing plans and costs work with no telematics; only sensor signals require it.
  • “We have nobody to configure it.” The fleet is imported, reminder templates are reusable and odometer readings can stay manual.

Frequently asked questions

How often does a heavy goods vehicle pass its roadworthiness test?

Goods vehicles, lorries and trailers included, must be tested every year. Buses and coaches are tested every six months (French Ministry for Ecological Transition). Dadycar tracks those due dates as reminders, with a named owner.

Which vehicles must be fitted with a tachograph?

Vehicles covered by regulation (EC) No 561/2006: professional vehicles over 3.5 tonnes carrying goods or passengers, and commercial vehicles over 2.5 tonnes carrying goods (French Ministry for Ecological Transition).

Does Dadycar handle driving time and tachograph data?

No. Dadycar does not read tachograph data and does not track driving and rest times. Those obligations are met by a dedicated system, described by the French Ministry for Ecological Transition.

Can a fleet mixing heavy goods vehicles, vans and cars be tracked together?

Yes. Every vehicle carries its category, its contract, its site and its own maintenance plan. The dashboard filters by site and by period, which makes it possible to read a mixed fleet without splitting it across several tools.

How do you make the mileage readings of a heavy vehicle fleet reliable?

The odometer history accepts telematics readings and manual entries. The kilometres then feed preventive servicing triggered by mileage and the checking of the contract mileage set out in the contract.

Does every vehicle need a device?

No. Tracking contracts, due dates, servicing, claims and expenses works with no device. A GPS-OBD device or a connected OEM vehicle is needed for location, trips and alerts coming from the sensors.

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