Waste management fleet software
Control costs and account for every route with a unified waste and recycling fleet management solution.
Verify service: Monitor route progress and waste pickups through integrated tools.
Limit truck downtime: Promote reliable service by finding and fixing critical vehicle issues earlier.
Support safer operations: Help your collection team limit risks on their routes with data-driven coaching.
Benefits that extend beyond waste management fleet tracking alone
Lower operating costs
Improve margins with waste management fleet software that helps you pinpoint and cut hidden expenses.
- Save fuel by monitoring and reducing costly driving behaviors like speeding or unnecessary idling.
- Integrate high-density routing tools to plan cost-efficient routes, help operators provide faster service and avoid SLA penalties.
- Free up more budget by identifying underused trucks and right-sizing your waste collection fleet.
Reduce liability claims
Decrease incident risk and build a defensible service record to guard against injury and property damage claims.
- Help your operators instantly self-correct risky driving behaviors through select AI dash cameras.
- Predict and monitor your refuse collection fleet’s likelihood of experiencing an incident with AI-enabled Collision Risk.
- Use fleet data and video footage to investigate incidents, demonstrate accountability and help exonerate innocent drivers.
Decrease callbacks
Resolve pickup disputes faster and reduce second trips by bringing proof of service data into one platform.
- Check route progress with waste management fleet tracking data.
- Integrate service verification tools to confirm individual stops.
- Allow operators to report service exceptions (like bin blockages) through integrated driver apps.
- Document evidence of service exceptions at the curb with manually captured dash cam video.
Improve fleet health
Make garbage truck maintenance data-driven to lower breakdown risk and keep your collection service consistent.
- Increase uptime and help prevent costlier repairs with proactive maintenance.
- Use detailed diagnostics to identify critical faults earlier and remove affected trucks from service.
- Help prevent flagged issues from getting lost or misread with Geotab’s digital driver vehicle inspection reports (DVIRs).
Case study
City of Spokane sheds manual processes
The City of Spokane’s Solid Waste Collections team wanted to reduce their reliance on paper records, save time and boost efficiency. Learn how they digitized their processes and ran leaner, more efficient operations with an integrated solution.
$25K
Up to $25K saved per year in printing costs
56
Roughly 56 trees spared annually
Ferrovial Servicios chose Geotab for smarter waste management
International waste collection company Ferrovial Servicios wanted a way to assess their fleet’s performance from a single solution and make more informed decisions. That’s when they turned to Geotab.
Integrated solutions for waste and recycling fleets
GO Analytics: complete visibility into fleet activities
Revvo: smarter tire management
Rasters: route management built for waste fleets
Choose the right video solution for your sanitation operations
GO Focus
A road-facing camera that’s best for privacy-conscious waste fleets. Get insights from critical road safety events, without continuous recording taking place.
- Capture footage of collisions to help determine fault and defend against false claims.
- Protect driver privacy through encrypted data that’s processed locally.
- Use AI-driven insights to spot risky patterns (like frequent tailgating) and provide targeted coaching.
GO Focus Plus
A dual-facing camera that provides in-cab coaching for specific risky and distracted driving events. GO Focus Plus also offers a Road Only option for waste collection teams that are held to union or privacy agreements.
- Address behaviors like eating, drinking or lane departures the moment they occur.
- Save time during footage review by seeing the most urgent events and behavior patterns first.
- Assign your team feedback directly in the Geotab platform and track their progress over time.
GO Focus Pro
Gain all the benefits of GO Focus Plus, but with expanded visibility. By connecting to auxiliary cameras, GO Focus Pro gives commercial waste fleets 360° coverage around their vehicles and helps them reduce risk from multiple angles.
- Improve visibility around blind spots and help operators avoid backing incidents with a zero-latency monitor.
- Automatically detect bin overages along routes.*
- Capture proof of scheduled pickups with snapshots or video footage.*
*Add-on features of GO Focus Pro that may incur additional charges
Waste fleet management resources
From maintaining service accountability to getting more out of your trucks, learn new strategies to optimize your collection operations.
Commonly asked questions
What is waste and recycling fleet management software?
Waste and recycling fleet management software is digital technology that helps sanitation teams oversee their collection operations and make smarter decisions about their vehicles. It allows organizations to:
- Track fuel consumption: Monitor idling outside of service hours and monthly fuel usage trends.
- Verify route completion: Measure how far along operators are and integrate with specific waste collection tools for timestamped data from each pickup location.
- Monitor vehicle health: Get detailed vehicle diagnostics, ranging from engine faults to tire pressure readings*.
- Study truck utilization: Review the number of days every truck is used, its idle-versus-drive time and distances driven to accurately assess usage.
- Evaluate driving habits: Track aggressive behaviors behind the wheel (like speeding or harsh acceleration) through scorecards.
With solutions that give you deeper data, your team can enhance refuse collection fleet management and provide more consistent service to residents.
*Available depending on the vehicle, device, plan and integrations.
How does Geotab’s waste management fleet software work?
Geotab’s waste management fleet software pulls valuable data from your in-vehicle telematics devices into the MyGeotab platform, making analysis and reporting easier. Through the Geotab Public Works solution and specific integrations, it allows you to check route completion and pickup activity. And when you add Citizen Insights, your community can see that progress in near real-time, too. This digital map shows them where your trucks have been so far — helping to curb service questions before they reach your contact center.
Our waste management fleet software can also pull meaningful insights from your data. For example, select Geotab tools use AI to help you predict maintenance needs and collision risk. These features give you the foresight to get ahead of incidents that could disrupt service.
Optionally, you can add AI dash cameras from Geotab’s GO Focus family for even better safety. Specific models allow you to review critical safety events, assign feedback to operators and celebrate their improvement, all within a single platform.
Why is a solution that does more than waste management tracking important?
While it’s important to know where your waste trucks are, if GPS is all the visibility you have, you’re left blind to other aspects of your operations like fleet safety risks, service exceptions and fuel usage. That’s what makes a platform that goes beyond waste collection fleet tracking better.
Solutions like these can bring video footage, vehicle health and driver data together, making it easier to identify where fleet performance and service quality can be improved. Advanced solutions are also able to help you build a defensible service record that shows your work to the community and strengthens your standing during contract renewals. Don’t just track your garbage trucks. Act on deeper fleet insights to create a safer, more cost-efficient collection operation, from the first route to the last.
What are the benefits of Geotab’s waste management fleet software?
Geotab’s waste management solution can help organizations:
- Extend garbage truck lifespans: Create maintenance schedules based on actual truck usage to provide smarter service and get more out of your fleet.
- Reduce wasted fuel: Coach drivers to avoid behaviors that increase consumption, such as idling outside of service hours or speeding.
- Enhance compliance: Use digital DVIRs for thorough, legible asset inspections. Additionally, fleets that must meet California Air Resources Board (CARB) requirements can use Geotab to help automate emissions reporting.*
- Improve collection route safety: Forecast collision risk, track driver performance with data and add select AI dash cameras to help your team avoid dangerous behaviors on their routes. Additionally, commercial waste fleets can connect up to five auxiliary cameras to GO Focus Pro for full 360° visibility around their trucks. This view helps them detect blind spot hazards like pedestrians and bollards.
- Protect their reputation: Investigate liability claims with video footage and telematics data to resolve legitimate ones faster and refute those that aren’t credible.
- Adhere to SLAs: Monitor your operations by tracking completed routes and documenting skipped pickups with manual footage capture.
*Available depending on your rate plan and hardware options. Additional requirements may apply.
Does Geotab’s waste management fleet software work for both commercial and public waste collection teams?
Yes. Geotab’s platform is customizable to the unique needs of waste collection fleets in both the public and private sector. By helping commercial organizations improve profitability and public departments responsibly use taxpayer dollars, our platform is a valuable addition to any waste collection fleet’s toolkit.
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