Fleet Management Guides
Long-form reference for people who run fleets, weighted towards the Indian compliance material that is hardest to get a straight answer on.
Guides
- Choosing an AIS 140 VLTD Device
The expensive mistake in VLTD procurement is not overpaying. It is buying a device that turns out not to be compliant in the state where the vehicle is registered, discovering it at a permit renewal, and having to refit the fleet.
- E-Way Bill Validity and Extension
Most e-way bill problems are not disputes about whether a bill was generated. They are consignments that were moving perfectly legally until a validity period expired somewhere on a highway at midnight.
- Fleet Idle Time
Idle time is one of the few fleet metrics that is easy to measure, easy to reduce, and easy to get badly wrong — because the crude version of the number treats necessary idling and wasteful idling as the same thing.
- AIS 140 Panic Button
The emergency button fitted to commercial passenger vehicles under AIS 140 looks like a simple piece of hardware. What makes it a compliance item rather than an accessory is where the alert travels once it is pressed.
Shorter reference material
- Glossary — the vocabulary these guides use, defined one term per page.
- 25 essential fleet KPIs — every metric with its formula written out.
- Working checklists — maintenance, inspections, breakdowns and handovers, written for the depot.
- Calculators — 24 tools that publish their formulas and state their limits.
On compliance material specifically
The regulatory guides here describe the shape of a requirement and how to verify a supplier's claims about it. They deliberately avoid naming approved vendors or quoting current prices, because both change continuously and a stale list is more dangerous than no list — it still reads as authoritative long after it stopped being accurate. Each guide says on the page what it is not a substitute for.
Want the tools instead of the reading?
The calculators need no signup and publish every formula they use.