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What is Motive?

Motive is a comprehensive fleet management solution designed to enhance the safety, productivity, and profitability for people who run physical operations. Our innovative platform integrates safety, operations, and finance functionalities, allowing organizations to manage their workforce, vehicles, equipment, and fleet expenditures within a single, cohesive system. By streamlining these critical aspects of business management, Motive empowers teams to make informed decisions that drive efficiency and improve overall performance. Targeted at a diverse range of industries, Motive caters to over 120,000 customers, such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk. Its versatility makes it suitable for sectors like transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, utilities, waste services, and the public sector. This broad applicability ensures that organizations of all sizes can leverage Motive's capabilities to optimize their operations and enhance safety protocols. Key features of Motive include advanced vehicle tracking, real-time safety monitoring, and comprehensive reporting tools. The platform provides users with insights into vehicle performance, driver behavior, and equipment usage, enabling organizations to identify areas for improvement and implement strategies that reduce risks and enhance productivity. Additionally, the Motive Card allow businesses to track fleet-related spending, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently and effectively. Motive stands out in its category by offering one platform that addresses multiple operational challenges simultaneously. This integration not only simplifies management processes but also fosters collaboration among safety, operations, and finance teams. By breaking down silos within organizations, Motive helps create a culture of safety and accountability, ultimately leading to better outcomes for both employees and the business as a whole.

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Product Description

Motive is a comprehensive fleet management solution designed to enhance the safety, productivity, and profitability for people who run physical operations. Our innovative platform integrates safety, operations, and finance functionalities, allowing organizations to manage their workforce, vehicles, equipment, and fleet expenditures within a single, cohesive system. By streamlining these critical aspects of business management, Motive empowers teams to make informed decisions that drive efficiency and improve overall performance. Targeted at a diverse range of industries, Motive caters to over 120,000 customers, such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk. Its versatility makes it suitable for sectors like transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, utilities, waste services, and the public sector.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Motive sets themselves apart from the competition by offering:

More critical functions in one platform:
Safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet spend in a single integrated system.

AI that delivers real value:
The most accurate AI models in the industry make your drivers safer and reduce your risk.

The fastest moving engineering team in the industry:
More than 600 engineers across hardware, software and AI, that deliver more than 300 major features every year

Unmatched customer experience:
Reliable and easy to use, yet powerful enough to tackle the most complex operational tasks.


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Year Founded
2013
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
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4,487 employees on LinkedIn®
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Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. We serve more than 1
0,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, agriculture, trucking and logistics, delivery, and more.At Motive, we are committed to building a company that creates products customers love and fostering a culture that enables people to do their best work. We are looking for people from all backgrounds who want to make an impact on the millions of businesses that power the physical economy.Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.


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Recent Motive Reviews

Devin W.
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Devin W.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Overall usage of Motive has been fairly good for me, however there are a few things that I dislike."
The interface is pretty user friendly, I do not have any issues with being able to utilize any features.
Elijah S.
ES
Elijah S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great platform for company fleet tracking."
The most helpful thing about motive is the detailed view of fleet vehicles and company drivers. The upsides of using motive is the ability to view ...
Matthew B.
MB
Matthew B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"User friendly"
I like how easy it is to navigate through Motive. I never have any issues finding what I need. All the information it provides is amazing. If I can...

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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Motive Demo - Safety
Motive uses the industry’s most accurate AI to monitor and protect drivers, and gives safety managers the tools to prevent accidents and reduce risk. The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that Motive’s safety dashcam solution detects unsafe driving behavior up to 4X more than competito...
Motive Demo - Fleet View
Fleet View gives real-time visibility and historical context for decision-making and customer service. - Motive automatically pairs drivers, vehicles, trailers, and equipment so that you have complete visibility. - Real-time geofence notifications enhance operational control with immediate u...
Motive Demo - Equipment Monitoring
Motive gives you unparalleled visibility into the location, utilization and health of your equipment and automates major operational workflows. -Get enhanced operational oversight with real-time tracking– with automated pairing of vehicles, assets, and drivers . - Find any asset, immediately,...
Motive Demo - Fuel Utilization
Motive helps with sustainability by providing insights into vehicle efficiency and utilization, helping save on fuel costs and reduce emissions. -Get insight into the efficiency and utilization of gasoline, diesel, hybrid and electric vehicles. -Improve vehicle efficiency by tracking fuel co...
Motive Demo - Coaching
Motive makes it easy to coach drivers virtually through the Driver App, or in-person using Coaching Sessions. -Turnkey coaching workflows identify drivers and behaviors that require attention. -Start a Coaching Session with a holistic view of your driver’s coachable events, unsafe driving pat...
Motive Demo - Spend Management
The Motive Card eliminates data silos, reduces fraudulent and wasteful spend, and automates manual workflows. - Manage your fleet and spend in the same dashboard and access automated reporting that can save you hours of manual time. - Detect and reduce fraud in seconds through AI-enabled frau...
Listen to how using the Motive platform has helped Bennett advance its safety initiatives with proactive driver coaching, on-the-spot video for accident exoneration, streamlined reporting, and other operational efficiencies.
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Listen to how using the Motive platform has helped Bennett advance its safety initiatives with proactive driver coaching, on-the-spot video for accident exoneration, streamlined reporting, and other operational efficiencies.
Proactively manage fleet safety, deliver documented results, and free up more time in your day. Prevent accidents and exonerate drivers with the most accurate, fastest AI dash cam.
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Proactively manage fleet safety, deliver documented results, and free up more time in your day. Prevent accidents and exonerate drivers with the most accurate, fastest AI dash cam.
Get unparalleled visibility into the location, utilization, and health of your equipment and automate major operational workflows.
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Get unparalleled visibility into the location, utilization, and health of your equipment and automate major operational workflows.
Motive helps fleets save money on fuel and reduce their environmental impact. With the industry’s first AI-powered insights, Motive Sustainability is a powerful way to operate more efficiently.
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Motive helps fleets save money on fuel and reduce their environmental impact. With the industry’s first AI-powered insights, Motive Sustainability is a powerful way to operate more efficiently.
Learn how to get the most out of the Motive Card and Spend Management platform with workflow automation, customized spend controls and profiles, and advanced fraud detection capabilities.
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Learn how to get the most out of the Motive Card and Spend Management platform with workflow automation, customized spend controls and profiles, and advanced fraud detection capabilities.

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Motive Pros and Cons

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Jonathan K.
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Sr. Director of Operations Infrastructure
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What do you like best about Motive?

Motive's in-cabin verbal mentoring is phenomenal, it helps the driver to be reminded of what they should be focused on whilst driving. Love the innovation of the dual cameras that captures much more events than the competition, close following and in cab distraction among some of the best feature sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

I can't create more than one customized vehicle inspection that will be visible on the driver app, I have to create a separate Document for an additional customized vehicle inspection. Customer Support has been terrible to date, we are a more experienced customer to Telematics and therefore when we need support we require engineering level support. The customer onboarding team is grossly uneducated on what the product is, which does not lend to a good customer experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking of personnel, mentoring and monitoring of driver's behavior, fuel card managment, and real time mileage monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Jonathan!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564.

Collin K.
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Fleet Manager
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Motive?

The intuitive dashboard, simple hardware, only had two cables, one to the gateway and one to the camera. Customer support is fast and most of the time can answer any questions. They will take your feedback and improve the product. Integration was tough but relatively easy to swap out the old SmartDrive/Omnitracs with Motive. Definitely easier to take out equipment if you need to swap trucks going forward. I use Motive almost every day even the weekends because the ease of access and I am able to pull up a lot of information from the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

Lack of data was a nightmare; we made the mistake we could do tablets at 500mb/month on the motive hotspots but you need the truck running and all the data got used up. Defenitily start with unlimited data on verizon for example. Can be difficult communicating to foreign support guys. Samsara support is 90% based in America, whilst it is only 30% for Motive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Driver safety and pulling dash camera footage. I'm able to see efficiency very easily on who is doing a good job and who needs help, safety and MPG wise. I would like to see the maintenance part to see improvement and then fully realize the costs of certain vehicles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Collin!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564

Ivy  K.
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Safety Manager
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What do you like best about Motive?

I have been using Motive for a while and as a Safety manager in trucking it made my job easier. Motive has faetures for a better safety managemant and it's very useful if you want to improve your company Safety score. It shows details as disconnects, violations and it has many coaching events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

I find only two negative things on Motive. First, on the Settings (grey) dashboard, when selecting the "Drivers" section, it doesn’t allow you to select drivers by name. Instead, they appear mixed up, which makes it a bit difficult to organize and manage them quickly. This could use some improvement for better efficiency. Second, I find that Motive doesn’t offer training courses for drivers. While there are some great resources available for fleet managers, as a Safety Manager, it’s challenging for me to explain my perspective on the driver app to the drivers without more targeted training options. It would be great if Motive could consider adding some driver-specific courses within the app to help improve understanding and compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am dealing daily with driver issues related to Safety and Complience, so when I have a problem with violations or disconnects, Motive is always there to help me out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Ivy!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact. Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564.

We look forward to serving you again soon!

JB
Team Lead, Driver Safe and Secure
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Motive?

Motive is by far the most superior ELD system out of all the systems I have used in the past to regulate company drivers. With AI capabilities, machine learning and analytical systems make reporting and evaluating drivers easy.

When issues arise you can reach out to their support team and have a response within minutes.

The systems are constantly evolving with new capabilities on the horizon.

This is a system that is used everyday in my position. Highly recommend Motive to anyone in the trucking and logistics industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

Not necessarily anything I dislike about Motive, but they are expanding capabilities that are slowly getting better as time goes on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Driver qualification file database. ELD system recording. Driver evaluation with dual facing cameras. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, John!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564

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What do you like best about Motive?

We love using Motive! The discount on our Progressive insurance is a huge plus. The dash cams give us peace of mind by ensuring our drivers are safe and responsible. The platform itself is user-friendly and helps us manage many of our daily tasks efficiently. Highly recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

Motive has some great features, but one of the biggest issues we’ve had is with inaccurate speed limits. A lot of them aren’t updated, so it frequently flags our drivers for speeding when they’re not. Another frustration is the "following too closely" alerts—it often triggers even when the driver is safely passing in a different lane. These false alerts can be annoying and make it harder to focus on real safety concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

In trucking they must have eld , so its taking care of that along with keeping up with my ifta and irp miles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Jennifer!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564

NM
Inventory
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What do you like best about Motive?

I love how easy it is to use the Motive website. The website is easy to navigate and has so much information available on each truck. I have really found the section for codes to be very helpful this winter. Also, I have been able to locate drivers when they were out of cell service as well as verify hours of drive time. There are many other features that I have found useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

I don't really find anything unhelpful about Motive. The only downside to using Motive that I have found is that I tend to watch it more than I should. That could be a good thing or bad thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the biggest things that Motive is solving for us right now is being able to locate our drivers and pin point their exact location. Over the fall we had a driver total a truck and he was unable to tell anyone where he was located. I was able to log into Motive and give 911 is exact location. In stressful situations like that Motive was able to solve the problem instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Nicole!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564.

Stephanie S.
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Human Resources & Safety Manager
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What do you like best about Motive?

Motive is user friendly, for both drivers and dispatchers, customer service is available 24/7 and it's not an automated number! You get to talk to a real person. What I really like is that I have my own service rep that helps me whenever I need to order items, if I have a random question or he just calls to check in some times!! I would recommend Motive 100%

The driver platform is very easy for my drivers to navigate and I hardly ever get any complaints from them. Training for new drivers typically takes 1 day, yes 1 day! It's that simple. Also, they are always adding new features and asking my opinion. I truly find that out of all of the trucking platforms, Motive is by far the best that I have used !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

I don't have much to dislike about Motive, however, if I could change anything, it would be that information about past trips would stay in the cloud longer than 1 year. I'd like to see that changed to 5+ years, even if we had to pay more for our subscription I believe this could prove to help companies such as mine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Motive is helping me better understand my trucks mileage and distance between state to state. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Stephanie!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564.

SL
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What do you like best about Motive?

The customer service for Motive is responsive and careful. We've been with Motive for 4 years now, and navigating the system as it has developed has been interesting, but at least we know that they are always trying to make improvements. The address for where our trucks are at is an awesome feature, and I've found it very easy to find our trucks wherever they may be in the US and Canada. When hooking the ELD to the truck, the directions were very simple and easy to follow. This tool is imperative for our operations team. Even our people in accounting use their access to check drive history and to make sure our guys don't miss out on breakdown pay, which our guys neglect filling out paperwork. It seems extremely accurate. Management and accounting use Motive several times a day. We would be crippled without this tool and I don't know how we ran without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

Sometimes I miss the deadline for when to request a video. One more day might be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to know the daily habits of our drivers. I wear several hats for my company and one of them is the verification of payroll. We pay our drivers $25 for every time they need to put chains on their tires to get through a rough mountain road. Chaining usually takes about 20 minutes, so paying them is a little incentive to ensure their safety in bad conditions. One of our drivers was going through a pass in Snoqualmie several times a week. I claimed that every time he went through and came back, he had to chain. When we implemented Motive, we were able to see if he had stopped to chain, how fast he was travelling through the pass and if he stopped to un-chain as he came through the pass. We found that for every 10 times he claimed that he chained, he was chaining maybe once. We backed up the ELD evidence with the weather history for the region and were able to have a conversation with our driver about trust, since he had lost ours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Sarah!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564.

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What do you like best about Motive?

Motive is easy to use and get set up in your vehicles. I was not oversold during my sales experience, which most companies tend to do. Motive helps me verify driving behavior, and can also provide customers with proof of service if needed. I use it daily for my business. Allows my drives to be rewarded and held accountable for their driving. Our at fault accidents have almost disappeared since we implemented the AI dual facing dashcams. Overall its a good product and the price is competitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

The tracking software isn't as reliable as I would like. One some occasions I have to use the request video feature to see a more accurate representation of the tracking on a map. Not always, but sometimes. I have reported this issue to Motive in the past. It has not been resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reducing at-fault accidents. Getting drivers to drive more safely and pay attention to the road. Getting cell phones out of the hands and minds. Allows us to see where our fleet is and has been. Allows us to provide proof of service to customers upon their request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Daniel!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564

Bryan F.
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IT Support
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
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What do you like best about Motive?

There are many aspects of Motive that I like. The best part of Motive is the software is easy, if you need to review driver logs for HOS or events it is so simple. Keeping the drivers informed is important and Motive makes this easy as well. The management and reporting side of the application are very nice and easy to use, from the driver aspect the app just works based on the settings that the company sets. There is a report for just about any amount of knowledge you want to glean from the app and there is just about any integration you could hope for. This application is continuously evolving to make things better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Motive?

Sometimes we do have issues that require higher levels of support and those issues can sit in the development black hole for a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Motive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Motive is solving the problems of fleet management and making sure that everyone has the knowledge and tools they need to be on topo of their game. Motive is continuously evolving their app to make it better through new tools or integrations. There is not a day that does not go by that I do not access the Motive management side or app to complete a task for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gary Smith of Motive

Thank you so much for your kind words, Bryan!

We're thrilled to hear about your great experience with Motive. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that our efforts are making a positive impact.

Your feedback is extremely important to us as it helps us improve the customer experience. If you have further feedback or need assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@gomotive.com or call our Support Hotline at (855) 434-3564.