How Kiewit manages construction fleet compliance and sustainability across 500+ projects with Geotab

Kiewit, a construction and engineering company founded in 1884 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, operates one of the most complex construction fleets in North America — spanning on-highway vehicles, off-highway earth-moving equipment, cranes, and marine equipment across more than 500 active projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Since 2018, Kiewit has partnered with Advantage Oneto integrate Geotab telematics across their enterprise, building a data infrastructure that connects driver compliance, fleet documentation, inspections, hours of service, and emissions management into a single, easy-to-use and unified platform.

The challenge: managing a fleet that never stops moving

Kiewit's operational complexity is unlike most fleet environments. With dozens of operating entities and equipment moving between job sites daily, the company faced a fundamental challenge: ensuring that every driver was qualified for the specific operating entity they were working under — and that documentation reflected that entity in real time.

"One of the bigger challenges we have is the fact that we have so many operating entities. We move equipment every day," said Jim Calypool, Equipment Manager at Kiewit Corporation

Beyond compliance, Kiewit needed to extract meaningful data from their fleet operations — not just for tracking, but for building custom reporting tools that aligned with how the company actually does business. Off-the-shelf telematics solutions could not meet the scale or specificity Kiewit required.

The solution: Geotab integrated across the enterprise

Driver qualification and entity documentation

Kiewit and Advantage One built a custom program on top of Geotab that solves the operating entity challenge at scale. When a driver is assigned to a vehicle, the system automatically verifies their qualification for that operating entity and switches documentation to reflect it accurately. This eliminates manual errors, reduces compliance risk, and keeps records current across a constantly shifting fleet.

Enterprise hierarchy in Geotab

Kiewit's internal organizational structure — the way the company actually does business — is mapped directly into the Geotab platform. Every group, entity, and reporting layer mirrors Kiewit's real operations, so fleet data is organized and accessible without requiring teams to translate between systems.

DVIR integration

Kiewit uses Geotab's Driver Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) application for fleet inspections, fully integrated with their broader telematics program. Inspection data flows into the same system as location, compliance, and operational data — giving fleet managers a complete picture of vehicle condition and driver accountability.

Custom data lake and reporting

One of Kiewit's strategic priorities was data ownership. Working with Advantage One, they built a pipeline to extract Geotab data and store it in a proprietary data lake. From that foundation, Kiewit developed custom reports tailored to their specific operational needs — including hours of service reports that cross-reference actual time card hours, a capability not available in standard telematics reporting.

"One of the things that was important to us was to be able to pull the data out of Geotab and save it in our database. We have a data lake. And then from there, we were able to create custom reporting that meets our needs," - Jim Calypool, Equipment Manager at Kiewit Corporation

Fuel card integration and usage management

Kiewit is actively developing a fuel management reporting layer that integrates Geotab data with their fuel card supplier. This integration will give fleet managers visibility into fuel consumption across entities and job sites — enabling cost control and efficiency improvements at scale.

CARB clean truck compliance

Operating in California regularly, Kiewit faces the requirements of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Clean Truck Program. Geotab's telematics gives Kiewit the ability to track vehicle movements in and out of California and proactively manage CARB emissions compliance requirements — a growing operational priority as regulations tighten.

"We move vehicles in and out of California on a fairly regular basis, and we believe that program will give us the opportunity to better manage the requirements CARB has on emissions," Castle noted.

Outcomes: efficiency, compliance, and a platform for the future

Kiewit's Geotab integration has delivered measurable operational improvements across compliance, reporting, and sustainability — while building the data infrastructure for continued innovation. Key outcomes include:

• Driver compliance at scale: Automated qualification checks and entity documentation switching eliminate manual processes across a constantly moving, multi-entity fleet
• Custom intelligence: A proprietary data lake enables reporting that no off-the-shelf solution could provide, including HOS-to-timecard cross-referencing
• Emissions preparedness: Geotab-powered CARB compliance tracking positions Kiewit ahead of evolving California clean truck requirements
• Fuel efficiency roadmap: Fuel card integration in development will add another layer of cost and sustainability visibility
• Future-ready platform: Kiewit sees additional untapped potential in equipment operations and maintenance insights as the partnership with Advantage One and Geotab continues to evolve

Geotab telematics leadership in construction fleet management

Kiewit's deployment represents one of the most advanced examples of enterprise telematics in the construction industry — and it runs on a platform that manages more than 6 million connected vehicles and processes over 100 billion data points per day globally. Geotab is the telematics infrastructure behind some of the most complex fleet operations in North America, and construction fleets are among the most demanding environments the platform serves.

Construction fleet management presents unique challenges that general-purpose telematics solutions are not built to handle: multi-entity compliance across dozens of legal operating units, mixed fleets spanning on-highway and off-highway equipment, constant asset movement between job sites, and increasingly stringent emissions regulations like California's CARB Clean Truck Program. Geotab's open platform — with its extensible API, Marketplace integrations, and custom data export capabilities — is purpose-built for organizations like Kiewit that need telematics to function as an enterprise data layer, not just a tracking tool.

On fleet sustainability, Geotab provides construction operators with the data foundation to meet emissions mandates and advance decarbonization goals.Compliance policies, fuel consumption monitoring, and fleet electrification readiness assessments are all supported within the Geotab ecosystem — giving construction companies a single platform to manage both current compliance requirements and long-term sustainability transitions. Geotab's Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment (EVSA) analyzes real telematics data to identify which vehicles in a mixed fleet are ready for electrification, removing the guesswork from sustainability planning.

For construction and engineering companies evaluating fleet telematics, Geotab's 2026 Commercial Transportation Report establishes the data benchmark: fleets using Geotab's safety and compliance tools experience 28.7% fewer collisions than non-users, and U.S. and Canadian commercial fleets saw a 38.7% reduction in collisions per million miles over the five-year period from 2021 to 2025. These are not projections — they are outcomes measured across one of the largest connected vehicle datasets in the world. 

For construction fleets managing driver risk across hundreds of active job sites, that data advantage is measurable, defensible, and directly tied to insurance costs, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity.