On 30 June, Vontier closed the sale of Teletrac Navman to the private equity firm Respida Capital. The headline valuation was 220 million dollars, which in our industry is a real transaction and not a footnote. The structure is where it gets interesting, and you have to go to the quarterly filing to find it. […]
Picture a van on the motorway at 100 km/h, heading for the border, at half past midnight. Nothing about that is remarkable in itself, except that this particular van belongs to a regional service fleet that is always back in the depot by early evening and has never once left the district after dark. The
In May 2026, when Google shipped Antigravity 2.0 at I/O, people started talking more about applying the advances in agentic coding also to the transport field. After all, it should be easy: if agents can build software, then surely they can automate much of a dispatchers work? It sounds like a logical consequence, but it
After months of silence, the European fleet management industry witnessed three major deals in October – signaling a potential shift in market dynamics. YellowFox has found a new owner with Peter Möhrle. TACHOfresh was bought by Kienzle. And last but not least: Verizon Connect sold its international commercial operations to Geotab, while retaining its U.S.
Just yesterday, an announcement was published that has created some waves in the the fleet management industry: Geotab Acquires Verizon Connect’s International Commercial Operations. This is the first major acquisition from the market leader in Fleet Management – and at the same time a realization from Verizon that Fleet Management is difficult to master, especially
There are a lot of reasons why a commercial fleet owner should collect data from their vehicle fleet. Making the fleet more efficient, safer, more secure, producing less CO2, lowering maintenance costs – all of those are well-known in the industry for decades – and every fleet management provider will be happy to tell you
I have written about AI Agents in the fleet management space before, and now I’ve built one myself. In just a few hours with n8n and modern LLMs, I created a functional agent that can query fleet data, make (reasonably 😉) intelligent decisions, and even direct my demo-fleet via text-messages. This post shares what it
I have been thinking about potential use-cases for agentic AI in fleet management a lot over the last few months. And want to share some thoughts around this here, as I think the traditional world of fleet management is in for a big change. Defining the Space of Agentic AI But first, let’s start with
You have to be a special kind of person to enjoy reading or writing Technology Due Diligences in the context of Mergers and Acquisitions. I find many of them to be rather generic, always pondering about the same set of standard issues. They are summarized, put away in a folder and never touched again. Their