IFTA Fuel Tax Reporting: What Your Telematics Data Has to Prove
Who needs an IFTA license, the quarterly deadlines, and the distance and fuel records an audit expects — including the 10-minute GPS rule that decides whether your tracking data counts.
Compliance & Safety
Driver Compliance and Fleet Safety
Hours of service, inspections and the record keeping that holds up to an audit — for US fleets under FMCSA rules and European operators under EU drivers' hours.
13 articles
What driver compliance covers
Driver compliance is the set of records and checks that prove each driver is qualified, rested and driving a safe vehicle: a valid license, a current qualification file, legal driving hours, and a completed inspection before and after each trip. Fleet compliance adds the vehicle and operator side — maintenance records, load and weight rules, emissions zones — and all of it has to be retrievable when an auditor asks.
Hours, inspections and records
| Obligation | Guide |
|---|---|
| Hours of service and electronic logging (US) | ELD hours of service rules |
| Driving time and tachographs (EU) | EU driving time rules |
| Driver vehicle inspection reports | What is a DVIR? |
| Defects found on inspection | Vehicle inspections and defect management |
| Driver qualification files | Driver qualification files that survive an audit |
| License checks | Driver license checking |
| Loads and weights | Load security and weight compliance |
| Low emission zones | Low emission zones checklist |
Audits
Preparing for a fleet compliance audit covers what auditors examine and how to run your own internal audit first, so that the real one is a formality.
Fleet safety
Compliance is the floor; safety is the goal. Designing a fleet safety program sets out the components that actually reduce collisions, and fleet accident claims management covers what to do from first notification to claim closure. Monitoring drivers brings its own obligations: see telematics data and driver privacy.
Library
All 13 articles in compliance
The EU General Safety Regulation: What It Puts Into New Fleet Vehicles
Intelligent speed assistance, drowsiness and distraction warnings, event data recorders and direct vision for trucks: what Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 requires, from when, and how it overlaps telematics.
Low Emission Zones: A Compliance Checklist for Fleets
How urban low emission zones affect delivery and service fleets, the vehicle data you need to keep, and how to build zone rules into routing and replacement plans.
Hours of Service and ELD Rules Explained
How hours-of-service limits and electronic logging work, what fleets must record, the common violations, and how software should support compliance.
What Is a DVIR? Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports Explained
DVIR meaning, what a driver vehicle inspection report must record, why paper DVIRs fail audits and how an electronic DVIR (eDVIR) process should work.
Driver Qualification Files That Survive an Audit
What belongs in a driver file, how to keep it current across a workforce, and the automation that prevents the expiry nobody noticed.
Preparing for a Fleet Compliance Audit
What auditors examine, how to run an internal audit before they do, and the record-keeping practices that turn an audit from a crisis into a formality.
Telematics Data and Driver Privacy
How to run vehicle tracking and driver monitoring lawfully — legal basis, transparency, proportionality, retention, and consultation with employee.
Designing a Fleet Safety Program
The components of a safety program that actually reduces collisions — risk assessment, policy, training, monitoring, investigation and the culture that.
EU Driving Time Rules and Tachographs
How EU drivers' hours and tachograph obligations work in practice, the records operators must keep, and how infringements should be managed.
Fleet Accident Management and Claims
How to handle incidents from first notification to claim closure — evidence capture, reporting timelines, third-party management and the data that reduces.
Driver License Checking: Building a Reliable Process
How often to check licenses, what to check, how to handle endorsements and risk categories, and the automation that removes the manual chase.
Load Security and Weight Compliance
Practical load restraint and weight management for delivery fleets — the physics, the common failures, the enforcement exposure and how software can help.