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Food and beverage fleet management for trucks that can’t afford downtime.

A reefer breakdown means lost product, lost revenue, and unhappy customers. Fleet Service 365 keeps every truck, every reefer unit, and every driver compliant — with VMRS-grade maintenance and dual-meter support.

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Cold chain · Route 14
live
34°F reefer set point · holding
Reefer R-08
500-hr PM
478.2 hr
T-22 tractor
HACCP wash
ODO 84,120
J. Reyes
Food handler
12 days
Reefer alert
2 units flagged for PM
The reality on site

The problems food & beverage fleets keep running into.

Reefer breakdowns destroy product
A refrigeration failure in transit means lost product, lost revenue, and a phone call to the customer. Most platforms treat the reefer unit as an afterthought — a custom field on the trailer record — instead of a first-class asset with its own meter and PM schedule.
Multi-meter assets confuse most platforms
A reefer-tractor has tractor odometer hours and reefer hours — two meters on one asset, with different service intervals. Most fleet tools bake in a single primary meter and force you to fake the second with a custom field, which kills your PM math.
CDL and food handler credentials live in different systems
Most fleet platforms handle CDL but not food handler or HACCP-related certifications. Drivers carry both. When the food handler card lapses, dispatch finds out from the customer — not the platform.
Compliance audits come from two directions
DOT and FMCSA on the vehicle side; FDA, USDA, and state health agencies on the food safety side. Two audit trails, two binders, two sets of attachments — and a lot of last-minute scrambling when the inspector shows up.
The FS365 difference

Four things food and beverage fleets get with FS365.

Multi-meter

True multi-meter support per asset.

Tractor odometer and reefer hours on the same asset, with reported and due meter readings scoped to a specific meter — no bare "due at 500" ambiguity. Service tasks know which meter they read from, so a reefer 500-hr PM never fires off the tractor odometer.

  • Two meters on one asset — odometer + reefer hours
  • Reported and due readings scoped per meter
  • PM intervals never collide between meters
Asset · T-22 reefer-tractor
Two meters, scoped service tasks
Tractor odometer
84,120 mi
Reported May 14 · DVIR
Reefer hours
478.2 hr
Reported May 14 · driver
PM · oil & filter
due 90,000 mi
scoped: odometer
PM · reefer 500-hr
due 500.0 hr
scoped: reefer hours
DOT inspection
due Jun 11
scoped: calendar
Operator renewals

CDL, medical, food handler, and HACCP — one module.

Track CDL, medical card, food handler certifications, HACCP training, and any recurring credential in a first-class module — not buried in a custom field. Configure due-soon alerts in days, weeks, or months. A driver without a current food handler card is a load that doesn’t leave the dock.

  • CDL + medical + food handler + HACCP in one place
  • Configurable due-soon alerts per credential type
  • Add any recurring renewal type without a feature request
Renewals · all routes
CDL · medical · food handler · HACCP
Assets0
Operators0
J. Reyes
Food handler
May 19
12 days
T. Nguyen
HACCP refresher
Jun 04
28 days
Reefer R-08
GVWR permit
May 30
23 days
M. Singh
CDL medical
Jul 12
66 days
T-22
DOT inspection
Apr 28
Overdue
VMRS hierarchies

Separate PMs for the tractor and the reefer.

Build separate PM templates for the tractor and the reefer unit, pull repair-code reports across both. Fleet Service 365 organizes maintenance into the same three-level hierarchy commercial trucking has used for decades — Category, System, Assembly — applied independently to each meter’d asset.

  • Three-level VMRS hierarchy on tractor and reefer
  • Independent PM templates per meter
  • Repair-code reports roll up across both
VMRS · T-22 reefer-tractor
Independent hierarchies for tractor + reefer
013 Engine (tractor)
013-001 Cylinder block
013-001-002 Crankshaft 3 tasks
067 Refrigeration unit
067-002 Compressor & condenser 4 tasks
Telematics

Your telematics. Your call on where to use it.

Run Fleet Service 365 with no hardware at all and log meter readings manually from a phone, or connect the telematics you already run — ATTI, Geotab, Samsara, Motive, or Verizon Connect — so live location, engine, and reefer-temperature data flow straight in where the cold chain matters. Mix and match across your fleet — never pay for live tracking on assets that don’t need it.

  • Integrates with ATTI, Geotab, Samsara, Motive & Verizon Connect
  • Run with zero hardware — manual meter entry from a phone
  • Mix connected and manual assets in the same fleet — no lock-in
Sources · 64 assets
Connected telematics where the cold chain matters
Geotab
18 · 28%
Reefer trailers
Samsara
14 · 22%
Tractors
Motive
8 · 12%
High-value routes
Manual entry
24 · 38%
Dry vans · spotter trks
Cold-chain details

Built for the way food and beverage actually works.

A few of the things food and beverage fleets tell us they actually use every week.

Multi-fuel-type support
Track diesel for the tractor and refrigeration fuel for the reefer separately — fuel cost-per-mile and cost-per-hour, side by side.
Custom fields per route & SKU
Track route, region, customer class, and product category — anything dispatch and finance need to slice the data, without waiting for a feature request.
Photos & PDFs for HACCP and FDA
Attach wash logs, sanitation reports, FDA documentation, and photos directly on the asset, the issue, or the work order. Audit-ready in two clicks.
Multi-currency for cross-border
Run divisions in different currencies for U.S., Canada, and Mexico routes inside one tenant — Fleet Service 365 was built multi-tenant-first.
Open by design

Your fleet, your AI — connect Claude or ChatGPT.

Most fleet vendors are racing to build their own AI copilot — locked to one model, sold as a premium add-on. Fleet Service 365 ships a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, the open standard for connecting AI assistants to live fleet data.

Claude DesktopChatGPTCursorAny MCP client
See how MCP works
fs365.mcp · connected
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Which reefer units had more than 4 hours of unplanned downtime last quarter?
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Show me every driver with a HACCP certification expiring in the next 60 days.
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Draft a quarterly PM schedule for the new reefer trailers.
Real answers. Live fleet data. No model lock-in.
Transparent pricing
Free up to 3 assets. Standard tier scales from there.

Connect the telematics you already run — ATTI, Geotab, Samsara, Motive, or Verizon Connect — only on the assets where real-time visibility pays off, and log the rest manually. Never pay for telematics you don't need.

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How we compare

Honest about where we win — and where we don't.

Fleetio
Where they win
Mature mobile app, larger integrations marketplace, solid vehicle maintenance.
Where FS365 wins
Dual-meter assets as a primitive, food-handler and HACCP credentials in a first-class operator-renewals module, native MCP.
Samsara · Motive
Where they win
Best-in-class real-time visibility on long-haul.
Where FS365 wins
We integrate with the telematics you already run — ATTI, Geotab, Samsara, Motive, or Verizon Connect — so reefer-temperature and engine data flow straight in, with no multi-year bundle contracts. Mix connected and hardware-free assets in the same fleet.
FAQ · Food & beverage

Questions food and beverage fleets ask first.

Yes. Two meters on one asset, with reported and due readings scoped per meter. A reefer 500-hour PM never accidentally fires off the tractor odometer, and your cost-per-hour on the reefer stays clean from cost-per-mile on the tractor.
Yes. Configure renewal types for any credential — CDL, medical card, food handler card, HACCP refresher, allergen training, and any other recurring certification — with due-soon alerts in days, weeks, or months.
Yes — up to 3 trucks free, forever. No credit card required.
Yes. Fleet Service 365 is software — passthrough integration with ATTI, Geotab, Samsara, Motive, and Verizon Connect is live, so the location, engine, and reefer-temperature data from the telematics you already run flows straight into FS365. Or run with zero hardware and log meter readings manually from a phone.
Photos and PDFs attach to any asset, issue, or work order — wash logs, sanitation reports, FDA documentation, DOT inspections. Both audit trails live on the same record, ready to export.
Yes. The Enterprise tier supports on-premise deployment for fleets that require it, including air-gapped environments.
Cross-fleet patterns

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The platform

Everything food & beverage fleets run, in one place.

All products Asset tracking Preventive maintenance Work orders Inspections Parts inventory Issue tracking Fuel & meters Dynamics 365

Keep every truck, every reefer, and every driver compliant.

Multi-meter support, operator renewals, and audit-ready records — all in one platform, connecting the telematics you already run where the cold chain matters.

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