Fleet Inspections That Work Even During Load Shedding
Mobile-first fleet management — your drivers do daily checks from their phones, defects get flagged instantly, and your compliance dashboard works anywhere with signal. Free up to 3 vehicles.
Mekavo AI is explicitly forbidden from telling you to pressure your driver.
Most fleet AI products will recommend densifying your routes when a driver finishes early — even when the underlying reason is speeding. Some platforms sell that recommendation as their headline feature.
Mekavo's risk-aware AI is hard-coded to refuse it. When telemetry shows a speeding pattern, a fatigue alert, or aggressive driving, our system is structurally prevented from recommending more stops, route densification, or shift extensions — regardless of what the variance numbers superficially support.
What our AI will recommend instead:
- Coaching, when a speeding pattern emerges.
- Mandatory rest, when fatigue alerts fire.
- Re-timing the plan at the planning stage, when stops consistently finish too early.
- Recognising the driver, when a week is clean.
It will never pressure the driver, even when the manager wants it to. That's the positioning. We sell to operators who want a serious safety platform — not a way to extract more shifts.
Compare side by side
| What other fleet AI says | What Mekavo's AI says |
|---|---|
| "Driver is 12 min ahead of schedule — consider adding 2-3 more stops." | "Driver is 12 min ahead BUT had 4 speeding events this week. Do not add stops — coach him. Insurance review recommended." |
| Optimises for stops-per-shift. | Optimises for safe completion and evidence integrity. |
| Pressures the driver to absorb the slack. | Investigates whether the plan is the problem. |
Everything your fleet needs
Daily Vehicle Checks
Templates for bakkies, rigid trucks, minibus taxis, panel vans, and heavy vehicles. Photo evidence on every point. Works on low data — 2G is enough.
Defect Reporting
Driver finds a cracked windscreen on the double cab? One photo, one tap, fleet manager alerted. Full paper trail for when the traffic department asks.
Licence Disc & PrDP Dashboard
Track licence disc renewals across Gauteng, Western Cape, KZN — different provinces, different systems, one dashboard. Monitor PrDP expiry for every driver.
Driver & Fleet Manager
Add drivers with their PrDP details, assign vehicles, manage across depots. Works for a 5-bakkie courier operation or a 200-truck haulage company.
Vehicle Profiles
Single cabs, double cabs, Quantums, rigid trucks — each gets its own profile: licence disc date, insurance, roadworthy status, and full service history.
Service & Repair Records
SA roads, potholes, and heat destroy vehicles. Every service, tyre change, suspension repair, and brake job documented with dates, costs, and workshop details.
Built for South African fleet operators
Licence disc renewal tracking by province, PrDP monitoring, AARTO demerit awareness, and daily vehicle checks built for SA conditions.
Built for your industry
Haulage & Logistics
Long-haul truck inspections, trailer checks, cross-border permit tracking — compliance from Joburg to Durban and beyond.
Construction
TLB pre-start checks, bakkie fleet inspections, site vehicle management.
Courier & Delivery
Panel van and bakkie daily checks, route tracking, multi-driver assignments.
Minibus Taxi & Passenger
Toyota Quantum fleet management, daily checks, roadworthy tracking for passenger transport.
Government & Municipal
Emergency vehicles, municipal fleets, government transport — specialised inspection templates.
Built for the regulators SA fleet operators actually deal with
An RTI roadblock at the N3 toll plaza, an RTMS audit before a contract renewal with a major retailer, a Department of Employment & Labour inspection after a vehicle incident — they all ask for the same thing: documented, tamper-evident proof that pre-trip checks happened, defects were fixed, and drivers were qualified. Mekavo seals each record at the moment of the act.
National coordination of traffic enforcement, the eNaTIS vehicle registration system, and the National Road Traffic Act 93 of 1996 framework that every operator works under.
Voluntary self-regulation accreditation (SANS 1395) for vehicle operators, owners and consignors. Major shippers (forestry, mining, retail) require RTMS — accreditation depends on auditable maintenance and driver-management evidence.
DoT writes the regulations under the National Road Traffic Act; DoEL enforces the Occupational Health & Safety Act 85 of 1993 and the Driven Machinery Regulations after vehicle-related workplace incidents.
Issues cross-border permits for SA operators trucking into SADC countries. Compliance history (vehicle defects, driver hours, passenger transport breaches) drives permit issue.
Diesel rebate audits (primary production sector), fringe benefit tax on company vehicles, logbook requirements. Fleet records form part of the SARS audit trail.
The NRTA places the duty on the operator to ensure roadworthy condition; RTMS accreditation requires documented daily pre-trip inspections by qualified drivers. Mekavo seals each pre-trip with photos, geolocation, mileage and driver identity at submission. The seal is independently verifiable — RTMS auditors, insurers, or court-appointed experts can re-verify without trusting the operator.
Loss of RTMS accreditation locks you out of contracts with the major SA shippers (Sappi, Mondi, Anglo, Pick n Pay) overnight. An Operator Card suspension under the NRTA grounds vehicles. Cross-border permit refusal at C-BRTA stops SADC freight. Insurance premiums spike or cover lapses.
Simple fleet pricing
Start free. Scale as you grow.
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Up to 3 vehicles, 2 team members
- ✓ 3 vehicles
- ✓ 2 team members
- ✓ All inspection templates
- ✓ Defect reporting
- ✓ Compliance dashboard
Fleet Starter
For fleets up to 20 vehicles
- ✓ Everything in Free
- ✓ Up to 20 vehicles
- ✓ Unlimited team members
- ✓ SMS reminders
- ✓ Vehicle lookups
Fleet Pro
For fleets of 21+ vehicles
- ✓ Everything in Starter
- ✓ 21+ vehicles, no upper limit
- ✓ Priority support
- ✓ Compliance reports PDF
- ✓ Best value for larger fleets
How it works
Create your organisation
Sign up free. Choose your industry — we set up the right inspection templates automatically.
Add vehicles & drivers
Add your fleet vehicles, invite drivers and managers. Assign vehicles to drivers.
Inspect, report, stay compliant
Drivers run daily checks from their phone. Defects flagged instantly. Compliance dashboard shows your fleet health.