Recommendations to others considering Verizon Connect:
I honestly do not recommend this product. The amount of frustration and double (sometimes triple and more) work caused by this program is not worth it. I manage a very small fleet of truck drivers and get frustrated and bogged down with the neverending issues; I cannot imagine trying to use this product for a larger fleet! If you're okay with problems every day, inaccurate reporting, nonexistent support, and much more, then this product may very well be for you. If you're looking for a solution that works, however, I advise you to steer clear of Verizon Connect. As "partners" with this company, our voice and concerns have not been heard. We have had multiple support tickets open for literally years. Other support cases have been simply closed with no solutions offered at all. If you do manage to reach someone on their support team, they typically just send the case to the "Development Team" - BEWARE: this is where support cases go to die! Even communication with account managers and others who are supposed to be on your side is difficult to attain. It is to the point now where every correspondence I have with this company is via email per my and my boss's insistence. It feels vital to have a paper trail of my attempts to get things fixed and/or changed; if DOT ever comes to audit my company, I want to be prepared with the data I need to prove we did our part as a compliant trucking company. In my opinion, ELD companies should never have been permitted to self confirm their products with FMCSA as compliant. That allowed carriers like us to trust and partner with a company that really didn't have it all together yet. In truth, I believe that with more work (and probably more people who have worked in this industry) this product could be good one day. It is just not there yet, and we haven't seen any progress in that direction in the three years we've been with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Verizon Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?
Verizon Connect was meant to help our company stay in compliance with federal HOS regulations, however, with all of the glitches, we often appear to be out of compliance incorrectly. We are able to collect mileage for IFTA reporting, but even that is not always accurate due to the errors with the application. We try to use this product to help us manage vehicle maintenance as well, but the mileage showing for each truck is often very far off from the actual mileage of the unit. This causes alerts to show up either too soon or beyond the actual due date. As a result, I have resorted to the old way of doing things and rely on my drivers to notify me when their truck is in need of servicing. As far as benefits, there really aren't many, if any at all. I can say that we are benefited by the fact that we are meeting FMCSA regulations by being ELD compliant, but that doesn't say much if the equipment never works as it should. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.