Is Motive (KeepTruckin) A Good ELD? Trucking Product Review
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Motive (Keep Trucking) ELD Review - Positives
📌 The telematics feature provides real-time data on fuel levels, engine load, and coolant temperature, aiding in pre-planning refueling stops efficiently.
📍 Real-time tracking capabilities are superior to competitors (lagging by 1-2 hours), allowing users to share live location links with brokers to avoid rate cuts due to tracking issues.
🛣️ The system automatically tracks IFTA miles across different jurisdictions, simplifying compliance management for the fleet.
📋 The back-office view of Hours of Service (HOS) clearly shows drive time, shift time, time until the 30-minute break, and next-day hour projections (using Recaps).
Motive ELD Review - Negatives and Pricing
💵 While competitive, Motive is on the higher end of ELD pricing, requiring users to call for quotes as pricing is not publicly listed.
💲 Current pricing structure includes a $150 hardware fee and approximately $45 per month per ELD, which recently increased from $40/month.
📦 The most significant drawback ("ugly") is Motive's consistent failure in shipping the correct connection cables for the hardware, requiring the user to keep extras from third-party sources like Amazon.
Motive ELD Review - Safety and Inflexibility
🛡️ The ELD is regarded as difficult or impossible to cheat, leading inspectors to trust the logbook more readily—a benefit for clean operations.
🛑 However, this rigidity means the system is inflexible with honest mistakes, as demonstrated when customer service refused to adjust a driver’s log from "Drive Time" to "Personal Conveyance" for a short shower trip, resulting in a lost restart.
Key Points & Insights
➡️ The software's efficiency and clarity are cited as the primary reasons the reviewer will continue using Motive despite other issues.
➡️ To mitigate shipping errors, users sticking with Motive should keep spare connection cables readily available, purchased separately (e.g., from Amazon).
➡️ Monthly pricing is negotiable; the company is open to offering discounts for paying a one-time annual fee instead of monthly installments.
📸 Video summarized with SummaryTube.com on Nov 18, 2025, 12:37 UTC
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Reviewing the ELD Motive, formerly KeepTruckin. Is it a good ELD? What is the good, bad and ugly?
Motive: https://gomotive.com
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Full video URL: youtube.com/watch?v=goT0yheWHbg
Duration: 11:33
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Motive (Keep Trucking) ELD Review - Positives
📌 The telematics feature provides real-time data on fuel levels, engine load, and coolant temperature, aiding in pre-planning refueling stops efficiently.
📍 Real-time tracking capabilities are superior to competitors (lagging by 1-2 hours), allowing users to share live location links with brokers to avoid rate cuts due to tracking issues.
🛣️ The system automatically tracks IFTA miles across different jurisdictions, simplifying compliance management for the fleet.
📋 The back-office view of Hours of Service (HOS) clearly shows drive time, shift time, time until the 30-minute break, and next-day hour projections (using Recaps).
Motive ELD Review - Negatives and Pricing
💵 While competitive, Motive is on the higher end of ELD pricing, requiring users to call for quotes as pricing is not publicly listed.
💲 Current pricing structure includes a $150 hardware fee and approximately $45 per month per ELD, which recently increased from $40/month.
📦 The most significant drawback ("ugly") is Motive's consistent failure in shipping the correct connection cables for the hardware, requiring the user to keep extras from third-party sources like Amazon.
Motive ELD Review - Safety and Inflexibility
🛡️ The ELD is regarded as difficult or impossible to cheat, leading inspectors to trust the logbook more readily—a benefit for clean operations.
🛑 However, this rigidity means the system is inflexible with honest mistakes, as demonstrated when customer service refused to adjust a driver’s log from "Drive Time" to "Personal Conveyance" for a short shower trip, resulting in a lost restart.
Key Points & Insights
➡️ The software's efficiency and clarity are cited as the primary reasons the reviewer will continue using Motive despite other issues.
➡️ To mitigate shipping errors, users sticking with Motive should keep spare connection cables readily available, purchased separately (e.g., from Amazon).
➡️ Monthly pricing is negotiable; the company is open to offering discounts for paying a one-time annual fee instead of monthly installments.
📸 Video summarized with SummaryTube.com on Nov 18, 2025, 12:37 UTC
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