Key takeaways
- Fleet management puts every vehicle you own live on one screen, so waste stops hiding once the phone calls stop working.
- Otrac fleet management is ₦149,900 in year one per vehicle, then ₦34,900 a year to renew. Ten or more vehicles get fleet terms.
- Every vehicle you want on the screen needs an Otrac-fitted unit. The unit feeds the live location, the fuel and idle flags, and the driver alerts.
- You get one report per vehicle each month, and across a fleet it names the driver and the vehicle that are costing you money.
Five vehicles is the point where your fleet starts running you instead of the other way round.
One Hilux you can manage on a phone. You know the driver, you know the route, you call him when something feels off.
Five Hiluxes and three trucks is a different animal. You cannot call eight drivers every hour, so you stop calling, and that is exactly when the costs start hiding.
Fleet management is what you put in place when the phone stops being enough.
What fleet management actually means
Strip away the jargon and it is one thing. Every vehicle you own, live, on one screen.
With Otrac fleet management that screen does four jobs at once.
It shows you where each vehicle is right now, whether it is moving, parked, or idling with the engine running. It flags fuel leaks and long idles so you see waste as it happens. It tracks driver behaviour and throws a speeding alert when someone is pushing a truck too hard on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. And it puts a live location behind every unit, the same way our car tracking does, so a stolen vehicle is still a moving dot you can hand the appropriate security authorities.
That is the whole product. Everything else is detail on top of those four jobs.
Why owners with 5+ vehicles need it
The problem at five vehicles is not theft on day one. It is leakage you cannot see.
A driver takes a personal detour through Oshodi on company fuel. Another lets the truck idle for two hours at a depot because nobody is watching the clock. A third is burning brakes and tyres with harsh driving you only find out about when the repair bill lands.
None of that feels like a crisis. It just quietly adds to your monthly spend until you wonder why the numbers never improve.
Speed is its own line item too. Hard driving wears the vehicle and it is a safety problem the FRSC takes seriously on the highways. A speeding alert lets you correct a driver before it becomes a crash and an insurance claim.
You do not lose a fleet to one big theft. You lose it slowly, to fuel and idle time and harsh driving that nobody on the ground is counting.
The hardware question
Here is the part owners always ask about, so I will be plain. Fleet management runs on Otrac-fitted units, and every vehicle you want on the screen needs one.
There is no way around that, and there should not be. The unit is what feeds the live location, the fuel and idle flags, and the driver alerts. It is also the unit that gives you a live location to hand the appropriate security authorities at 2am if a vehicle goes missing on a run between depots.
A screen with no hardware behind it is just a map. The unit is what makes the map true.
What it costs per vehicle
Otrac fleet management is ₦149,900 in the first year per vehicle, then ₦34,900 a year to renew.
The first year is higher because that is when the unit goes in. After that you are paying for the service, the screen, the alerts and the live tracking, 24/7, which is why the renewal drops.
Fleets of ten or more vehicles get fleet terms, so if you are running a real operation the per-vehicle number comes down. Message us with your vehicle count and we will price it properly.
Two services sit on top of the base. Fuel monitoring adds a calibrated sensor that reads the real tank, at ₦649,900 per vehicle in year one and ₦79,900 to renew. Truck tracking for long-haul units is ₦149,900 per truck as a yearly service. The diesel that goes missing is usually the bigger of your two problems, which is why fuel monitoring earns its place. We break that down in the guide to stopping fuel theft.
The reports you actually get
Live tracking tells you what is happening now. The monthly report tells you what has been happening all along.
You get one report per vehicle, every month. It covers where the vehicle went, how long it idled, speeding and harsh-driving events, and how its fuel behaved.
On its own, one report is interesting. Across a fleet, it becomes a ranking. You can see which driver idles the most, which truck burns the most fuel for the same route, and which Hilux keeps triggering speed alerts.
That is the report owners actually use. It turns a vague feeling that money is leaking into a named vehicle and a named driver you can do something about.
Diesel theft is also a downstream-fuel problem the NMDPRA regulates, and the report is where you first catch your own fuel walking off into that market.
Where to start
If you are running vehicles out of Lagos, start with the base fleet service across the whole fleet so you can see everything on one screen.
Add fuel monitoring to the trucks first, since that is where the diesel and the money are. Then let the monthly reports tell you where to tighten next.
The point is not to spy on your drivers. It is to stop guessing, and to stop paying for the guesses.
