Notes from running this
What self-hosting a fleet platform actually costs, what white-labelling one involves, and how a migration off a per-vehicle contract really goes. Written from the deployments rather than from a keyword list.
Migration
Leaving Geotab is easier than you expect
The GO device runs without MyGeotab and the API is generous, so the hard part is not technical: it is finding out who actually owns your account.
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Migration
Leaving Motive without a compliance gap
Export before you send notice, keep the six months the FMCSA still expects from you, and know where the hardware bill lands. The order that matters.
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Migration
Leaving Samsara: the video goes with them
Footage lives as long as the subscription does. What to pull before you cancel, and the EU rule that gives you a deadline instead of a favour.
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Migration
Leaving Verizon Connect starts 90 days out
The contract renews itself while you are still comparing vendors. The notice window, what to export, and why the calendar matters more than the technology.
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Comparisons
Navixy alternative: two ways to white-label
Both let a provider run a fleet platform under their own brand. Navixy licenses you a product; Routly gives you the source. When each is the better trade.
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Comparisons
Self-hosted fleet management, 5 platforms compared
Traccar, OpenGTS, Fleetbase, Wialon Local and Routly. What each is for, the licence, the stack, and the one question that eliminates three of them for you.
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Compliance
What AGPL-3.0 actually means for your business
Section 13 in plain terms: what triggers the obligation, what does not, and the four situations where a commercial licence is the answer instead.
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Engineering
Driver scoring people will actually act on
Ten thousand harsh-braking events change nothing. A ranked list does. The weights we use, why fuel dominates them, and what a score must never be used for.
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Operations
The six fleet metrics worth a dashboard
Most fleet dashboards measure what is easy. These six change decisions, with what each is really telling you and the trap that comes with it.
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Self-hosting
What fleet software actually costs over three years
A worksheet, not an argument: subscription against self-hosting, including the install and integration costs the per-vehicle price leaves out.
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Comparisons
Fleetbase alternative: which problem is yours?
Both are AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable, and they answer different questions. Fleetbase is logistics operations; Routly is fleet telemetry and what you sell on top.
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Migration
From flespi to a database you own
Flespi buffers parsed telemetry for 30 days. If you want it to keep it, and to query it yourself, you need somewhere to put it. The options and the trade-offs.
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Engineering
Fuel theft detection is a rule, not magic
The difference between a drain and a shift of ordinary burn is a rate of change. The thresholds we use, the false positives they cause, and how to tune them.
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Compliance
Vehicle tracking and GDPR: what you may record
Location data about a named driver is personal data. The legal basis you need, why consent rarely works, the out-of-hours rule, and what to put in the notice.
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Self-hosting
Self-hosted fleet management, honestly costed
What it takes to run fleet management on your own servers: the components, the operational load, the cost against per-vehicle SaaS, and when not to.
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Engineering
Storing GPS telemetry: the schema and what it costs
Why positions live in ClickHouse and everything else in Postgres, which codec goes on which column, what we measured, and where ClickHouse is the wrong choice.
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Comparisons
Looking for a Traccar alternative?
Traccar decodes the devices; Routly is the part your customer sees. When Traccar alone is enough, what Routly adds, and how to run both instead.
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Engineering
Running Traccar past a thousand devices
Where Traccar starts to hurt at scale, what the community actually reports, the tuning that helps, and when to split ingest from the application layer.
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White-label
White-label fleet software you host yourself
Host a fleet platform for your own customers under your own name: isolated organisations, per-customer report branding, and a licence that permits reselling.
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Migration
Leaving Wialon without touching a single tracker
The Wialon retranslator forwards live telemetry to a second system while Wialon keeps running. The migration path, with no device reconfigured.
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