Feature Guides

Fleet and Transport Management Software Features

Trips, GPS tracking, fuel, FASTag, driver settlements, maintenance and e-way bills. The features Indian fleet owners and transporters need in one system.

Purushottam Kumar Suman
Purushottam Kumar Suman
Founder & CEO, Drema AI
8 min read
Trucks and containers at a logistics yard

A transporter's margin is thin and disappears in fuel, tolls, idle days and driver advances that nobody reconciled. Fleet software earns its cost by showing profit per trip and per vehicle, which most fleet owners cannot see today.

01

Orders, trips and dispatch

The trip is the unit of profit. Everything else attaches to it.

Order and indent bookingCustomer, route, material, weight and rate
Vehicle and driver allocationOwn fleet or market vehicles
Lorry receipt and documentsLR or bilty, invoice and e-way bill linked to the trip
Trip statusLoading, in transit, unloading and proof of delivery
Route planningMulti-drop sequences and return loads
02

Tracking and visibility

Customers ask where their consignment is many times a day. Give them a link rather than a phone call.

GPS trackingDevices, SIM-based tracking and driver app location
Geofences and alertsArrival, departure, halts and route deviation
Customer tracking linkLive location and ETA without a login
Electronic proof of deliveryPhoto and signature on the driver app
03

Trip expenses and driver settlement

This is where money leaks. Capture every expense against the trip and settle with the driver from records, not memory.

If you cannot state the profit on a single trip, you are managing by bank balance.

Driver advancesCash, UPI and fuel card
FuelFill entries, mileage and variance against expected consumption
TollsFASTag transactions matched to trips
Other expensesLoading, unloading, challans and repairs en route
SettlementAdvance minus expenses, with driver pay and incentives
04

Maintenance, tyres and compliance

A vehicle off the road earns nothing, and an expired document can stop it at a checkpoint.

Service schedulesBy kilometres and time, with job cards
Tyre managementPosition, kilometres run, retreading and cost per kilometre
Document expiry alertsInsurance, fitness, permit, pollution and road tax
Driver recordsLicence validity and incident history
05

Billing and accounts

Faster billing means faster payment. Generate freight bills from proof of delivery without retyping.

Freight invoicesDetention and extra chargesCustomer ledgers and ageingMarket vehicle payablesGST and TDS handlingAccounting export
06

Reports that matter

Start with profit per trip, profit per vehicle per month, kilometres per litre by vehicle and driver, idle days and outstanding receivables. Add driver behaviour scoring and predictive maintenance later, once tracking data is reliable.

Per trip
Profit visibility is the goal
Fuel
Usually the largest running cost
Expiry alerts
Cheap to build, costly to miss
Purushottam Kumar Suman
Written by
Purushottam Kumar Suman
Founder & CEO, Drema AI

Founder and CEO of Drema AI. Builds AI systems, SaaS platforms and industry software — and writes about what actually survives production.

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