Motive, the AI platform for physical operations, today announced the launch of Motive Maintenance, a new, AI-powered system that helps organizations track and manage maintenance workflows directly inside the Motive platform. By unifying vehicle and asset health with repair workflows and spend, Motive Maintenance gives organizations a single, real-time view of their entire fleet maintenance operations — from a fault code detected on the road to a completed, cost-tracked repair in the shop. Now teams can spot problems sooner, increase vehicle uptime and asset utilization, and significantly lower repair costs.

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Automations can turn inspection defects captured in the Motive Driver App, fault codes, and service reminders into digital work orders so critical repairs are never missed.

Automations can turn inspection defects captured in the Motive Driver App, fault codes, and service reminders into digital work orders so critical repairs are never missed.

For physical operations leaders, downtime means lost capacity, disrupted service, and thinner profits. Organizations lose nearly 9 days per vehicle each year to unplanned downtime, costing an estimated $448–$760 per vehicle per day.1 In addition, in a new study by Motive, fleet professionals ranked rising maintenance and repair costs as their top operational challenge. Only 13% reported that their fleet management technology systems are well integrated and share data automatically across platforms. As a result, most teams still run disconnected maintenance workflows and are left reacting to emergencies while overpaying for parts and labor.

“Teams shouldn’t learn about a failure from a roadside call—they should have the insight and ability to act early and prevent a costly breakdown,” said Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive. “With Motive Maintenance integrated directly into the broader Motive platform, organizations have a comprehensive and early picture of a vehicle’s health, which allows them to proactively address issues before they become costly failures. This means fewer breakdowns, less downtime, and real savings on every vehicle and asset they run.”

“Before Motive Maintenance, what happened on the road and what happened in the shop were two separate records,” said Luke Crawley, Fleet Manager, H&R Agri-Power Inc. “Now inspections, fault codes, and work orders will be able to run through a single system so problems surface sooner, more of our assets stay in service, and we will finally see the real cost of operating our fleet. Rather than paying emergency rates when something fails, we’ll be able to fix issues early, run higher uptime, save hundreds of hours a week, and spend far less to keep our fleet moving.”

One Platform for Maintenance Operations

Motive Maintenance is an AI-powered system that connects the vehicle or asset, the driver, repairs, and the back office into one connected platform so teams can see problems earlier, fix them faster, and understand the true cost of running every vehicle and asset. A fault code detected on the road becomes a prioritized work order in the shop, an inspection defect doesn’t fall through the cracks, and repair dollars roll up into a precise total cost of ownership (TCO) view.

With Motive Maintenance, organizations can:

  • Keep vehicles and drivers safe with proactive diagnostics: AI fault code diagnostics instantly translate complex codes into plain-language explanations that flag critical issues, recommend service, and prompt drivers to take safe action. Severity-based prioritization ranks issues automatically so teams can act on what matters most. Health insights combine defects identified in inspections and service schedules with vehicle and asset availability so teams know what needs attention.

  • Fix vehicles and assets faster with AI-driven, automated workflows: Automations can turn inspection defects captured in the Motive Driver App, fault codes, and service reminders into digital work orders so critical repairs aren’t missed. AI-powered invoice scanning reduces manual data entry by automatically populating maintenance records with accurate line items, clawing back hours of admin labor.

  • Cut costs with full visibility into operating spend: Maintenance pulls fuel spend from Motive Card together with repair and maintenance costs for every vehicle and asset tracked in Motive — so customers see the true cost of running each one.

  • Stop overpaying for repairs, parts, and aging vehicles: Motive Maintenance’s proactive warranty tracking helps teams stop paying for repairs already covered. Multi-location inventory tracking prevents over-ordering parts, and data-driven replacement analysis pinpoints the optimal time to retire a vehicle before it becomes a money pit.

Motive Maintenance Increases Uptime and Lowers the Cost of Running Every Vehicle and Asset

With Maintenance, Motive now delivers seven products on a single AI platform — Driver Safety, Fleet Management, Equipment Monitoring, Spend Management, Workforce Management, Operations Intelligence, and Maintenance. Rather than juggling point solutions for every department, physical operations leaders can now manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, spend, and maintenance workflows in one place.

That consolidation delivers measurable results. In a 2026 Motive ROI Report, all survey respondents reported an average 18% increase in vehicle uptime, and a IDC Business Value White Paper, The Business Value of Motive: Accurate AI for Fleet Safety found interviewed organizations achieved over $1.8 million in annual safety savings each, partially driven by an average 95% reduction in at-fault collisions.2 By closing the gaps between the road, the shop, and the back office, Motive Maintenance can help teams keep more vehicles and assets on the road and lower the total cost of running each. It turns maintenance from a reactive cost center into a competitive advantage for every organization that keeps the world moving.

Motive Maintenance is available today across the United States and Canada. To learn more or request a demo, visit gomotive.com and read the Motive Maintenance announcement blog.

About Motive

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, waste services, and the public sector.

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1 FleetNet America and TMC benchmark quarterly data

2 Source: IDC Business Value White Paper, sponsored by Motive, The Business Value of Motive: Accurate AI for Fleet Safety, doc #US54413826-BVWP, April 2026

 

 

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