How a fleet is watched. Each vehicle carries a telematics device: a small box with GPS, sensors and a SIM card. It reports the vehicle's location, speed, harsh braking, idling, fuel use and engine faults. Fleet-management software gathers these reports on one screen, plans routes and schedules maintenance.

Cameras that watch the road and the driver. More and more fleets add cameras, called dash cams. One faces the road, and one often faces the driver. AI on the camera spots risky moments, such as using a phone, following too closely or dozing off, and warns the driver at once. The video is kept for coaching drivers later, and as evidence after a crash. The industry calls this video safety, and it is the fastest-growing part of this market.

The rules for trucks in America. American law limits how many hours a truck driver may drive in a day. Drivers must record their hours in an electronic logbook, and fleet software provides it.

Paying for fuel. Fleets pay for fuel with fuel cards. A fuel card works like a payment card, but the company can limit what it buys and see every purchase.

How a fleet is watched: a telematics device and dash cams in each vehicle report to fleet-management software, which plans routes and maintenance, keeps the electronic logbook and coaches drivers, while fuel cards pay for the fuel.

Who buys, and how they pay. The buyers are trucking and logistics companies, bus operators, delivery companies, and companies whose staff drive to customers. They usually pay a monthly fee for each vehicle, plus the cost of the devices. Fleets that improve their drivers' safety can also pay less for insurance. (More on how insurers set prices in Market Segment 21.3, Underwriting, pricing and claims analytics, in Industry Vertical 21, Insurtech.)

The market is led by American companies, and several of them build their products in Bengaluru.

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