Fleet Management Glossary
Definitions worth having to hand. Many are already published as reference tables.
Where the definitions live today
- GPS & telematics terms — the vocabulary of tracking hardware and data.
- Fleet KPIs — where the term is really a metric, with its formula.
- Cost formulas — the arithmetic behind the cost language.
- Alert types — what each alert means and whether it deserves your attention.
A note on fleet vocabulary
Much of this industry's terminology is used loosely, and the looseness costs money. 'Utilisation' means four different things depending on who is speaking. 'Telematics' and 'GPS tracking' are used interchangeably and are not the same. Where a term is genuinely contested, these pages say so rather than picking one definition and pretending it is settled.
See these terms as live numbers
Fleet Analytics reports most of this vocabulary from your own operational data.