The Best Fleet Management Companies

Our fleet management research has found that Verizon Connect tops the list for managing fleets. Its tools include tracking features, driver management, and vehicle management. It’s best suited to bigger fleets or a more generous budget as it’s pricier than some of its competitors.

With the workforce changed forever, and hybrid and working from home becoming more popular, we know it’s even more important than ever for your fleet GPS tracking system to be up to scratch. Our researchers honed in some of the most important features including driver management, vehicle management, and tracking.

We’ve also delved into pricing and customer support as we know these are important factors to consider when finding the right fleet management system.

The Top Fleet Management Companies

According to our extensive research, the top fleet management companies are:

1. Verizon Connect – best for construction industry fleets
2. Samsara – best for managing vehicles
3. Teletrac Navman “TN360” – best for managing drivers
4. Azuga – best for efficient routes
5. RAM – best for affordability

1. Verizon Connect – Best for construction industry fleets

While Verizon’s prices make it better suited to medium to large businesses, it offers some fantastic features and you’ll get a lot of bang for your buck if you go for it. It does score 2.5/5 for pricing, which puts it in a very low 6th place when compared to its contemporaries, but this is made up for by the astronomical scores it earns everywhere else.

5.0/5 in tracking, driver management, and vehicle management means that Verizon is the number one fleet management provider on the market, at least as far as we’re concerned. Pretty much anything you’d want from these areas, Verizon has it. It also pulls in a 4.9/5 when it comes to other product features, like its truckload of apps, weather updates, panic button, and fuel card integration.

Outside of pricing, the only other conceivable shortcoming is their customer support, which scores a 3.5/5. This is due to the lack of installation help and a chat bot on their sites. If you’re looking for better pricing, RAM is cheaper than Verizon Connect, and Teletrac Navman is substantially better at customer service.

2. Samsara – Best for managing vehicles

Whether your transportation fleet carries goods or people, it’s important that your routes are optimized to get those jobs done in the fastest timeframe – saving you money and fuel. This is where Samsara’s route optimization feature comes in. After you’ve entered a series of upcoming jobs, Samsara can use traffic predictions and the average time your drivers spend at each site to automatically plan your fleet’s schedule, ordering the jobs and pencilling in departure times to plot out the most efficient day for your drivers. It’s this feature, among others, that bestow Samsara with a 4.9/5 for tracking, the second best score from our research.

Not to mention Samsara’s unique driver messaging, which helps you to quickly and safely communicate any changes directly to your drivers, and its comprehensive fuel usage reporting, which we believe to be the best on the market. Plus, Samsara also provides insightful fleet maintenance reports that give a quick view of your fleet’s overall health – keeping you informed of everything from the services and inspections your vehicles are due to the insurance that needs to be renewed.

These two great features ensure Samsara earns a 5.0/5 in both driver and vehicle management, which is an obvious 1st place finish. These scores, coupled with the 4.0/5 in both customer support and product features, lead to Samsara earning a 4.6/5, giving it our second place spot. The only shortcoming is the price, which scores a 2.5/5. If you’re looking for a more affordable option, RAM is a more affordable option, scoring a 4.6/5 for price.

3. Teletrac Navman “TN360” – Best for managing drivers

Teletrac Navman is the provider of numerous fleet management products, but here we’ll be talking exclusively about the “TN360.” This system is a solid jack of all trades, scoring decently to well in every category. Its best scores are a perfect 5.0/5 in driver management, and a 4.9/5 in tracking.

The rest of TN360’s scores are less glowing, but still respectable across the board. In fact, its price score of 3.4/5 means that it’s less pricey than our top three providers – Verizon, Samsara, and Azuga – so if you’re looking for affordability, this is a great option. It also scores 4.5/5 for customer support, which is the best score among all of the providers we’ve looked at. This is due to its 24/7 support, with the only shortcoming being the lack of an online chatbot.

As far as places to grow, the TN360 scores a 4.3/5 for vehicle management, and a 3.8/5 for product features. For vehicle management, it could stand to implement cargo and engine temperature checkers, and for product features, it’s lacking satnav integration, a panic button, and weather updates. If you’re in need of these features, Verizon Connect offers everything that the TN360 doesn’t.

4. Azuga – Best for efficient routes

Azuga is an overall positive mixed bag. On one hand, it scores a 2.5/5 in pricing, which means it has obvious room for improvement. However, its tracking and vehicle management scores (4.9/5 and 4.8/5 respectively) earn Azuga second place in both categories.

These scores are courtesy of cargo and engine temperature readings, a rapid tracking refresh time of 30 seconds, loads of alert types (long stop, speeding, geofencing, idling, and more) speed control, and maintenance scheduling.

Its remaining scores of 4.3/5 for driver management, 4.0/5 for customer support, and 3.8 for product features might not move mountains, but they’re all respectable scores that earn Azuga third place overall in our fleet management platform ranking. If you’re looking for a more affordable product, however, RAM scores a great 4.6/5 for its pricing – much better than Azuga.

5. RAM – Best for affordability

RAM has a very even spread when looking at its scores. Its best score, price, is a solid 4.6/5, meaning it’s the most affordable platform we’ve looked at during our research. Like all fleet management systems, RAM is tight-lipped about their exact pricing, but everything we’ve looked at has shown that it’s on the more affordable side.

The rest of RAM’s scores are very healthy too. 4.6/5 for tracking, 4.5/5 for product features, and 4.4/5 for help and support. If it implemented automatic route optimization, a panic button, and a driver chat line, all of these scores would go up enough that RAM would be a contender for the top, even without its affordable price point.

On the topic of its subpar vehicle management score of 2.3/5, RAM has a lot to gain from beefing up their offering. For instance, it doesn’t include fuel management, vehicle diagnostics, cargo or engine temperature, or fleet maintenance records, which can make the analytics less granular and more broad, especially when you’re dealing with sensitive cargo. If you’re in need of these features that RAM lacks, Verizon has them all.

How Did We Find the Top Fleet Management Companies?

Our team of independent researchers looked at a selection of the best and most popular fleet management systems. After finding all the information we need, the researchers then compare each platform against its competitors, allowing us to find the cream of the crop. The criteria we look at include:

Price: Simple enough – the platform with the lowest price tag scores the best

Tracking: How robust and effective are the platform’s tracking features? For example, how quickly does the tracking map refresh, does the map factor in traffic, etc.

Driver Management: Tracking and logging the behavior of each of your drivers. Does Driver #3 idle his vehicle for too long? Does Driver #4 tend to speed?

Vehicle Management: Checking up on the health of your vehicles. Are they in need of maintenance? Are they well protected against theft?

Product Features: What else can the product do? Can it sync up with third-party satnavs? Is there a phone app?

Customer Support: Again, easy enough – look at the options available and see what each platform offers its customers when it comes to their support resources

After factoring in all this information, alongside the scores they received, we were able to calculate a final overall score for each fleet management system.