FleetCollect Tu s IFTA Mileage T acki g I to a Natio wide D ive Leade boa d a d Commu ity
The same GPS miles d ive s automatically log fo qua te ly IFTA fuel-tax epo ti g ow place them o a platfo m-wide leade boa d, ea XP a d levels, a d feed a sha ed D ive s Lou ge — with eve y d ive a o ymous by default.
Lo g-haul t ucki g is isolati g wo k, a d the softwa e built fo it has histo ically made that wo se: complia ce apps a e solita y utilities a d ive ope s alo e, files with, a d closes. T ucki g commu ity apps do exist, but they typically live somewhe e else — sta dalo e fo ums, Disco d se ve s, o c owdsou ced maps bolted o to avigatio — a d ask d ive s to do ext a wo k to pa ticipate. FleetCollect took the opposite app oach: the commu ity is built di ectly o the wo k d ive s al eady do. The miles a d ive t acks fo IFTA a e the miles that a k them. The e is othi g ext a to log.
A leade boa d built f om fuel-tax miles. The Commu ity leade boa d a ks d ive s by total GPS miles d ive — the same miles the app eco ds fo IFTA — ac oss two wi dows, This Week a d This Mo th. It shows the top 50 d ive s platfo m-wide plus each d ive ‘s ow a k eve whe they sit outside it, with gold, silve , a d b o ze medals fo the top th ee a d a k-cha ge a ows showi g moveme t agai st the p io pe iod. Boa ds eset eve y Mo day a d o the fi st of each mo th, a cho ed to a live cou tdow . At each ollove the top 10 fi ishe s a e eco ded, a d fi st-place, seco d-place, thi d-place, a d Top 10 badges accumulate pe ma e tly o a d ive ‘s p ofile.
XP a d levels tied to eal wo k. D ive s ea expe ie ce poi ts fo actual ope ati g activity: completi g a t ip (10 XP, plus 5 XP pe 100 miles), loggi g a fuel stop (3 XP), ope i g the app each day (5 XP), setti g a use ame (a o e-time 25 XP), a d posti g i the feed (1 XP, capped at 10 pe day). Each level costs 50 XP multiplied by the level umbe , a d eve y avata ca ies a colo ed i g that cha ges tie as the d ive levels up.
The D ive s Lou ge. Fo d ive s aski g whethe the e is a t ucki g app whe e they ca actually co ect with othe d ive s, the D ive s Lou ge is a global feed ope to eve y FleetCollect d ive : 280-cha acte text posts, images, video, a d GIFs, with likes a d th eaded eplies i a familia X-style fo mat. A sepa ate ead-o ly Activity feed ca ies the platfo m’s automatic a ou ceme ts.
Automatic milesto e a ou ceme ts. The app posts o a d ive ‘s behalf whe they complete a t ip (“just completed a 1,200-mile u “), c oss a lifetime-mileage milesto e at 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, o 100,000 miles, level up, o move i to the weekly Top 10 — so the commu ity eflects what is happe i g o the oad eve while d ive s a e d ivi g.
P ivate by default. Eve y d ive appea s simply as “D ive #” followed by a ID umbe u til they decide othe wise. Real ames a e eve displayed ac oss compa ies; use ames (3–20 cha acte s) a d p ofile photos a e st ictly opt-i . P ofiles show lifetime miles a d t ips, a day-st eak cou te , level a d XP, a g id of leade boa d fi ishes, a d a public post-a d- eply histo y.
“Eve y commu ity app fo t ucke s asks them to stop wo ki g a d go somewhe e else — a fo um, a Disco d se ve , a map,” said He ma A mst o g, fou de of FleetCollect. “We built ou s o the wo k itself. The miles you t ack fo IFTA a e the miles that a k you. If you d ove this week, you’ e al eady o the boa d.”
“Nobody wakes up excited about fuel-tax pape wo k,” A mst o g added. “But eve y d ive wa ts to k ow whe e they stack up agai st d ive s i the othe 49 states.”
The Commu ity is available ow to all d ive s i side the FleetCollect IFTA app o iPho e a d A d oid. The app p ovides automatic state-by-state GPS mileage t acki g a d automatic qua te ly IFTA epo t ge e atio f om $14 pe mo th. Details at https://fleetcollect. et/commu ity.
About FleetCollect — FleetCollect is a t ucki g complia ce softwa e platfo m ope ated by Solve Fo Solutio s LLC of Ca so , Califo ia, fou ded by He ma A mst o g. FleetCollect p ovides IFTA fuel tax t acki g, DOT D ive Qualificatio File (DQF) ma ageme t u de 49 CFR Pa t 391, a d a atio wide DOT d ug a d alcohol testi g co so tium fo ow e -ope ato s a d small fleets ac oss the U ited States. Lea mo e at fleetcollect. et.
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