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2 September 2026

Motive targets fleet repair costs with AI maintenance

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Source reporting: FreightWaves

Motive targets fleet repair costs with AI maintenance

There are two records every fleet that runs its own shop has: what was reported by the truck on the road, and what gets written up by the technician in the bay. An evergreen challenge is that these records don’t always match. Motive built its newest product on the premise that closing that gap is the cheapest way left to hold down fleet repair costs. The company recently announced Motive Maintenance to tackle this. It’s an AI-powered system that pulls fault codes, inspection defects, work orders and repair spend into the same platform that already holds its customers’ telematics and fuel card data.

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