Geotab Drive Reviews

Read all the reviews from actual drivers that uses GeotabDrive. You feel like you live in 20th century while using GeotabDrive recent update brought many connectivity issues and now drivers are complaining that screen is not staying on while they are driving and on duty. While DOT requires it to be on all the time while driving.
After contacting gt developers, I had no answer about this issue, and I doubt it will be fixed in the near future.
The only good it does is sending notification when vehicle hits a pot hole or a speed pump while driving. Also, it senses that the vehicle accelerating too fast at 70 mph. And bosses in the office believe that the driver was hitting the gas pedal hard and accelerating at incredibly fast speeds.
Would you be testing your product more thoroughly and actually drive the different types of vehicles and in different conditions before selling it to your customers.

User interface design is pretty ok but my issue is when you attempt to log in it doesn’t work. I’ve tried logging in on my for several days now without success. The in-cab tablet works ok but it has lag issues when switching between screen or changing drivers(GeotabDrive is frozen for 30 seconds to one minute).

I’ve changed by password 4 times and yet I still have the wrong password and no matter how many emails I get saying it was changed apparently not

Won’t let you split break. Continues to deplete your 14 hour clock even after 2-3hour off duty break. Not user/driver friendly. Motive much better. I’d take the old clunky Qualcomm with the physical keyboard and send in macros over this thing.

GeotabDrive has high praises from admins who have NEVER been in a truck!

I didn’t think I’d find one I detest as much as I did Keep Truckin, but I found it.

I don’t need to be told how long it took me to Log my DVIR. I’m on duty as long as I need, and I don’t need a flag telling me it took me less than a minute to record it.

Frankly? It’s asinine. I log my Pre and post trip as I’m prepping the truck for the trip, and the last thing I do is record the DVIR. So what if it takes 5 seconds to run through GeotabDrive .

The connectivity is sorry. This service always has some sort of issues going on throughout the day. Motive is a much better one to use when it comes to smooth operations

I generally have no complaints with GeotabDrive, the last update, whatever they did, it’s killing my battery twice as fast or faster than it used to. Please fix this issue.

This is the biggest junk app I’ve ever used. Something that people’s livelihood is relied upon to track FEDERAL regulations and I constantly have issues. Taking 2 hours to log out and go off duty. Log in the next day, 16 hours later, for it to tell me I have upcoming violations because it never legitimately logged me out. Get it together

I’ve never written a review before for any app but I feel a burning hatred towards this one specifically. This is the worst app to happen to the trucking world. Like the other person said if I could give it no star I would.

I was with a company for a year in a half that used this program; they linked it to smart drive. It made my life a nightmare; this monitor everything to a simple laugh or fart; you have no privacy while in the company car. The company claims there not watching you but who is on the other side of the camera pointed at you?? It's kinda of creepy if you ask me.

I hope that I never have to use this again geotab or start drive again!!

Not very accurate, backed vehicle up about 30 feet over the weekend and was flagged for speeding!! Eats up the battery on my phone 3 times faster than normal, mileage to and from work are inconsistent even though I drive the same route every day, camera beeps constantly showing pic of phone, cigarette, etc while driving is a distraction in itself. I have to double check everything,and most of the time I have to enter and verify mileage and trip logs twice before the data is recorded. I don’t trust GeotabDrive what so ever,I get taxed on the information it records and I don’t trust it one bit.

There are so many better apps out there. My 14 year old grandson could put together something better. Among several things, when a driver reports a problem with a trunk it will stay in GeotabDrive until it’s repaired. So it could be something simple and in that time you’re not able to do any other inspections. Nor are you able to tell the driver that the part is on order or it’s being taken care of it will stay there forever until it’s officially repaired by the service department. Having the wrong time, and just being overall funky, This thing is just an overall bad design.

I got GeotabDrive for work and I haven’t even used it yet, so I have no idea if it’s good at tracking hours and logging. 🤞 I did notice a massive draw on my battery. I changed the location settings from “ask” to “while using”and that seemed to help a little. Per the Battery info, GeotabDrive seems to stay going in the background nearly 24hrs (21h33m in the last 24h) a day. I set it to no cell use and never track and I’ll see what happens. I’m not happy that when I go to work it looks like I’ll have to keep my phone on a charger all day, and I’ll have to remember to lock it down at the end of the day. Definitely needs to shut itself down when off duty.

Would’ve given it no stars, but not an option. App and browser version are total garbage, customer support is also little to be desired. Biggest problem is it murders your battery, especially in my job where I have much more important job functions that I need my phone for, but can’t do my actual job because GeotabDrive kills my battery in a matter of 4 hours. For those about to say “Charge your phone”, not an option my job requires me to constantly be moving around. Until something is done to reduce battery usage, my only option is to force GeotabDrive to shut down immediately after inspecting a vehicle, which I would imagine stops GeotabDrive from tracking where I go. Would not recommend companies require the use of GeotabDrive for asset management.

I drive for USA Truck, have been for 5 years, not sure if other companies use this system. I use this Geotab app on my iphone 8 running ios 13.3, iphone 15 pro running 17.0.0, and the tablet provided by my company in the truck. The user-interface is nice and i have no complaints there, however using GeotabDrive is excruciatingly painful. It’s like running through water. Signing inspections takes literal minutes. Sometimes GeotabDrive crashes while signing inspections and i have to do it again and again and again. This is the general theme with many functions, including verifying logs, synchronizing logs, attaching/detaching assets, certifying repairs, etc. this is absolutely insane. I have complained about this via GeotabDrive a couple times and seen no improvements. Something has to change, this is so incredibly unacceptable and wasteful of my time and company time.

The most difficult app to even access. Cant use company name, Can’t register, can’t receive emails, can’t do anything. Hate my boss for changing to this!

Please fix the issue when selecting an asset from the dashboard the screen will come back blank sometimes and it takes 4-5 tries to get it to populate

This double status bar login screen that we are forced to wait for is killing me. Please fix it.

GeotabDrive is decent but it fails to consistently do your splits properly without having to log out GeotabDrive and verify(sign off) your time that same day and make you choose to go off duty just to sign out. When you sign back in, sometimes it will update your hours that previously didn’t show on your logs after completing a 8 hr split. Unfortunately GeotabDrive fails at providing the new rules for DOT on the 7/3 split option which has been in effect for years. The developers need to fix their app to have your hours correct themselves without signing out and to correct the split time to where you aren’t just held to a standard 7/3. This correction will probably never happen this is why it’s only being temporarily used until I can stop by my company terminal to use their primary ELD. Get it together Geotab

Nothing but but good things to say about the service this company provides. Finally and ELD that’s works and is user friendly.