Arrival and departure alerts for a handful of vehicles, without the per-vehicle pricing and compliance features built for hundred-truck operations.
Fleet telematics is built and priced for large operations. Typical platforms run $20–45 per vehicle per month and bundle driver scorecards, dashcams, fuel-card integration, and compliance reporting.
If you run six vans, most of that is cost without benefit. The questions you actually have are narrow: did the van get to the customer, when did it leave the depot, and did anything move last night.
Those are geofence questions.
Site arrival and departure. A zone around each regular customer site or your own depot. You learn when a vehicle arrived and when it left, without anyone being asked to check in. Over a week this quietly answers most scheduling disputes.
Out-of-hours movement. A zone around the yard, active 18:00–07:00. If a vehicle leaves overnight, you hear immediately. This is the setup that pays for itself the first time it fires.
Somewhere between three and fifteen is comfortable to maintain by hand. Past about twenty, keeping them current becomes a job in itself — sites change, customers move, and stale zones generate confusing alerts.
If you need a zone per customer across hundreds of customers, you have outgrown this approach and want a platform with route planning and automatic site creation. Worth saying plainly rather than selling you something that will frustrate you at scale.
Include the whole yard, not the building. A vehicle parked at the far corner of a depot should count as arrived.
Trace them with the geofence builder, and see GPS accuracy on why the margin matters.
The common annoyance with site zones is a vehicle driving past on an adjacent road, clipping the zone, and registering as an arrival.
Two fixes. The better one is to draw the zone so it does not reach the through road — most depots have room for this. The other is to treat brief arrivals as noise when you read the log; see dwell time for the trade-off between filtering these out and delaying every genuine alert.
Geoblip does arrival and departure alerts, live positions, per-vehicle schedules, and position history. It does not do route optimisation, driver behaviour scoring, fuel-card reconciliation, ELD or tachograph compliance, or dashcam integration.
If you need compliance reporting, you need a compliance platform — that is a regulated space and a general geofencing tool is the wrong answer. If you need to know whether the van got to the customer, this is a much cheaper way to find out.
Per-vehicle pricing is what makes fleet software expensive for small operations. Geoblip’s Pro plan covers up to 10 devices for $29 a month total, and Business covers up to 100 for $99. For a six-van operation that is roughly what one vehicle costs on a conventional fleet platform. See pricing.
Position history — 24 hours on Pro, 30 days on Business — is what lets you answer “how long was the van there” after the fact rather than only in the moment.
Know within minutes if a trailer, generator, or machine leaves the yard — the window that decides whether it is recovered or gone.
Know if a new driver takes the car somewhere it was not meant to go, without tracking every journey they make.
Automatic arrival and departure records for every drop, without drivers stopping to tap a button on a phone.
Draw the zone, add the device, choose the hours. Seven-day free trial, cancel any time.