Fleet & maintenance

The trucks, the drivers, and what it costs to keep them rolling

A truck that is down is jobs you cannot take. Excern ties the pre-trip inspection to the dispatch board, the defect to a work order, and the mileage from your telematics to the service interval.

Inspect

A failed pre-trip holds the truck

The driver runs the checklist on the phone before the first stop. A failed item with a photo puts the truck on hold — dispatch cannot assign it — and opens a maintenance work order until a manager clears it.

  • DVIR checklist per truck type
  • Safety hold visible on the board and the map
  • Defect → work order with the photo attached

DVIR · safety hold

Maintain

Work orders with vendors, line items and intervals

Every service on the truck: what was done, who did it, what it cost, and when the next one is due by miles or days. Mileage comes from the truck’s own odometer through HD Fleet.

  • Work orders with vendor, line items and approval
  • Service intervals by miles or days with due-soon flags
  • Vendors for mechanics, parts and fuel; bills as expenses

Maintenance · vendors

Track

Telematics you already pay for, on your dispatch map

Connect HD Fleet and every truck reports position, trips, mileage and dashcam events into Excern. Trips are matched to jobs, so the operations report knows which truck ran what and how far.

  • Live positions on the Map; route playback per truck
  • Trips and mileage matched to jobs
  • Dashcam event clips attached to the truck and the day

HD Fleet · trips · events

People & places

Drivers, yards and dumps as records, not spreadsheets

Drivers with their logins, time clock and jobs; yards with their container counts; dump facilities with rates and hours. Everything the job form and the driver app read from.

  • Driver profiles: hours, jobs, inspections, chat
  • Yards with lots and counts by size
  • Facilities with rates by material

Drivers · yards · dumps

Everything in Fleet & maintenance

Trucks

Unit, type, plate, odometer, status; on hold when unsafe.

Drivers

Logins, hours, jobs, inspections, team chat.

Pre-trip inspections

DVIR per truck type; failures hold the truck and open a work order.

Work orders

Vendor, line items, cost, approval; history per truck.

Service intervals

By miles or days, with due-soon flags on the fleet list.

HD Fleet telematics

Positions, trips, mileage and dashcam events synced into Excern.

Yards & dumps

Lots, counts, facilities, rates, hours.

IFTA mileage & overtime

IFTA mileage entries per truck; driver hours and overtime report.

Other telematics providers Coming soon

Samsara and Geotab connections.

Know which truck can run tomorrow

Start free, add your trucks and drivers, and run the first pre-trip in the app.