Geotab Drive Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.9% of reviews
Neutral6.3% of reviews
Negative experience84.9% of reviews

~ Based on 192 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Geotab Drive

Is Geotab Drive Safe?

Geotab Drive appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Geotab Drive is 84/100.

This assessment is based on 2,076 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

79.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
17.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,076 App Store ratings for Geotab Drive.

Is Geotab Drive Legit?

Geotab Drive appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Geotab Drive is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Trash.

App is complete and total trash. 100% useless. Doesn’t hold selections. Doesn’t allow corrections to incorrect logs. Kicks out of PC while driving, then won’t allow any corrections. Wants you to certify logs that are incorrect, due to developers’ incompetence. Developers and any fleet managers requiring their team to use this app deserve to live out the rest of their days within the confines of a small cage.
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Bring back the days of the week!

In one of the recent updates the days of the week were removed from the HOS tab when looking at daily breakdown of activity. Please bring that back.

Response from developer

Thanks for the three stars and for such a clear request. A recent update added a calendar picker so you can open logs from further back, and the day header changed along with it. While you're picking a date, the calendar still shows the days of the week. We've shared your note about seeing the weekday on the page itself with the team behind the HOS screens. If anything else could work better for you, iOSdrive@geotab.com reaches us directly. Safe travels out there! – Geotab Drive Team

Too slow

This app is too slow, keep crashing too

Response from developer

Sorry Drive has been getting in the way of your workday. Most drivers get through their shifts without running into this, so it's worth a closer look. Our team can dig in if you email iOSdrive@geotab.com with the screen you were on and roughly when it last happened. – Geotab Drive Team

Dash cam won’t stop beeping, really hard to sleep when the dash cam beeps every couple minuites.

Terrible eld, don’t use

Response from developer

We want to understand what happened on your account. If you send your fleet name and the date and approximate time of one occurrence to iOSdrive@geotab.com, our team can review those logs with you. – Geotab Drive Team

Interrupt inspections

During an inspection The system decides you need to log back in kicks you out of the inspection in the middle. Make sure as if I have all day it’s a joke.

Response from developer

Thank you for the five stars. We know an inspection needs to run start to finish, and we want to understand what happened on yours. Please write to iOSdrive@geotab.com with the approximate date and time, and whether you sign in through your company's single sign-on. Those details help us review what happened for you. – Geotab Drive Team

Too many bugs

A system the easily registers a drive automatically yet take 20 minutes to register on duty knowing the truck is and has been stopped, not recognizing a change in status when user submitted one, not being able to edit times when system doesn’t recognize duty status changes and then limits how many letters or words the user uses trying to explain the need for the change. Like I said bugs that need attention..
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Response from developer

Duty status has to be right for your logs to hold up, and the details you shared give our team a clear place to start. Please email iOSdrive@geotab.com with your fleet name and the date and time of one example so we can review those logs with you. – Geotab Drive Team

A honest review

I do not like this app because it tracks you and put you as driving after you log out when your day is done it switches you to driving so it’s easy to get violations on here when you’re not violating anything and another thing that I don’t like about this app is it will give you violations after it turns on when you’re not even logged into the Truck and if somebody else drives the truck and you’re out of range, it automatically adds onto your day as well. That’s another bad thing.
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Response from developer

Accurate logs matter, especially when a violation is on the line. If logs on your account don't match what you did, please email iOSdrive@geotab.com with the dates and the vehicle involved so we can review those records with you. – Geotab Drive Team

I would give one star if I could

This has to be the worst elog out there. Randomly puts me in to drive mode , even when I’m nowhere near my truck. Customer service is beyond terrible. Avoid this app.

Response from developer

We want to understand what happened on your account. If you send your fleet name and the date and approximate time of one occurrence to iOSdrive@geotab.com, our team can review those logs with you. – Geotab Drive Team

Exemptions Problems

When using Exemptions rule the app continue turn the exemptions off. I will not lock it in. Example: Moving the truck around the yard. If you don’t watch the app it will switch from Yard Move back to Drive without warning. So you burn Driving hours when you are in the yard. This is a big problem when you need your driving hours. A never example is using Personal Conveyance. When using it same problem. If you don’t watch the app you will be back in driving when you are needing to use PC exemptions. Please fix it. I am tired of asked my company administrator to change my e-log information. Drivers you have been warn.
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Response from developer

Drive ends Yard Move or Personal Conveyance automatically when that status no longer applies, for example once PC passes the 75 km daily limit under Canadian rules. The driver should be told when that happens, and time that wasn't driving shouldn't count as driving. Email iOSdrive@geotab.com with your fleet name and the date and approximate time of one switch so our team can review those logs with you. – Geotab Drive Team

Driver

Terible app only works half the time. Always some sort of glitch.

Response from developer

Reliability is the job of a driver app, so we want to track this down. One example gives our team a place to start: send your fleet name, the task you were on and roughly when it went wrong to iOSdrive@geotab.com. – Geotab Drive Team

Go try

Needs to be more driver, friendly,

Response from developer

Thanks for being straight with us. Drivers should get through their day without wrestling the app. If you can name the screens or tasks that slow you down most, send them to iOSdrive@geotab.com so our team can look at the parts of your day that cause the friction. – Geotab Drive Team

App switched to driving without vehicle movement

App will randomly put you into a driving status and leave it there until you manually change it despite the vehicle being stationary for multiple days. And no way to correct this

Response from developer

Drive time you can't correct, recorded while the truck sat parked, is understandably frustrating. Drive is designed to prompt after about five minutes without movement and switch to On Duty if there's no response. Email iOSdrive@geotab.com with your fleet name, vehicle and one date it occurred to help us review what happened. – Geotab Drive Team

Worthless app

N/A

Great

Great

Good

Perfect

Response from developer

Good in the title, perfect in the review, five stars on top: we'll gladly take all three. Thanks for taking a moment to rate Drive. Wishing you smooth days on the road. – Geotab Drive Team

Update

Since the new update, I haven’t been able to get past the screen in the start that talks about your GPS location will be tracked and not shared

Cossin

Marche pas à moitier même log sur le truck quand je suis à 200km de distance

Response from developer

Un outil que vous êtes obligé d'utiliser et qui flanche une fois sur deux, c'est déjà lourd. Mais se retrouver rattaché à un camion situé à 200 km de vous, c'est autre chose : ce sont des données enregistrées à votre nom. Dans Drive, l'association se fait avec le véhicule que vous sélectionnez; l'application ne vous rattache pas à un camion en fonction de l'endroit où vous vous trouvez. Un rattachement à distance n'est pas le comportement prévu. Écrivez-nous à iOSdrive@geotab.com avec le nom de votre flotte, le camion concerné et la date approximative, et on ira voir ce qui s'est passé sur votre compte. – L'équipe Geotab Drive

Daily driver

Battery burner, can’t inspect new trailers when there is no phone service, sometimes personal conveyance doesn’t work, signing in and loading up in the morning can be a ten minute ordeal, slow app.

Response from developer

Starting your day with a ten-minute wait, and paying for it in battery, is a rough way to begin a shift. The specifics help though: inspecting a new trailer with no signal, and personal conveyance dropping out, are things we can chase. Email iOSdrive@geotab.com with your fleet name and roughly when personal conveyance fails, and we'll look into your case. – Geotab Drive Team

Update! Years later - Still horrible

Update: Now that I’ve used it from the company side of things for things like safety and compliance, I can reaffirm the cloud system and software are an absolute nightmare to work with, and I couldn’t be happier we’re ditching the system and switching to a more reliable system.

Logs and Locations take forever to pull up, and we’re on a gigabit connection.
Video recording take forever to filter through. Not because of the camera connectivity as they are uploaded to the cloud, and the click through from video to video is beyond slow.
Asset database is a nightmare, just yesterday when trying to look up an asset, it took 4 minutes to load.

Don’t get me wrong, some of the features are nice, but the issues with speed, etc, make it almost unusable.


Review from the Driver’s Side:

For an application that is supposed to be dead accurate, I don’t even understand how they’re still in business. It places me in wrong location, it automatically launches me into drive when I haven’t even moved yet for the morning, and wants to put me on duty when driving…. And these are finable offences for us truck drivers. Lowest rating fully deserved. Fix your app!
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Response from developer

We're sorry to hear about the connectivity issues you're facing and taking so long to get back to you. The app is designed to record HOS data without an internet connection and sync when service is restored. We take this concern very seriously and want to investigate. Please email our team at iOSdrive@geotab.com with your username so we can help.

Pointless oppression

What purpose does this serve? And why does the tracking not stop after I log out? Fix this, or send me a check to buy a new phone. I’m to the point where i uninstall this app when i clock out & reinstall when I clock in because the tracking remains active & its killing my phone’s battery

Response from developer

Uninstalling and reinstalling around every shift to protect your own battery is a lot of work, and we understand why you're doing it. The app does need some background time for ELD compliance, but what you're describing after you log out is worth checking properly. Email iOSdrive@geotab.com with your fleet name and we'll look into your case. – Geotab Drive Team