Strategic Guide
Automotive & Fleet

Agent Governance for Indian Fleet & Automotive

A strategic guide to governing autonomous AI agents in fleet operations, EV management, and vehicle safety. From AIS 140 compliance to production agent operations.

Executive Summary

Fleet agents are routing vehicles across 6.4 million km of Indian roads, predicting breakdowns for operators who lose 15-25% to unplanned downtime, and managing charging for 3.5M+ EVs — all without a flight recorder. India's Rs 3 lakh crore logistics market runs on road freight that carries 70% of all goods. Agents make thousands of autonomous decisions every hour across routing, dispatch, maintenance, and compliance. Yet when a routing agent sends a fuel tanker through a congested urban corridor, or a maintenance agent defers a brake inspection, there is no reasoning trace. This guide provides the roadmap for closing that gap.

01The Fleet Agent RealityAgents decide. Nobody watches.
02Agents Without OperationsWhat ungoverned agents cause
03Agent Use CasesFleet, EV, safety agents
04Agent EconomicsCost architecture at scale
05Regulatory ComplianceBharat NCAP, AIS 140, E-way
06Agent Operations StackRegistry to bounded autonomy
07Production ReadinessFive gates for fleet agents
08The PlatformAgent governance for fleet
09Agent ImplementationsWhat fleet operators build
10Getting StartedFleet Agent Intelligence Accelerator
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01 - The Fleet Agent Reality
Agents Are Running India's Supply Chain. Without a Flight Recorder.
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Indian fleet operations have moved beyond dashboards and telematics. Autonomous agents now reason, decide, and act: routing vehicles, scheduling maintenance, managing EV charging, and enforcing compliance. The shift from static rules to agent autonomy changes the governance problem entirely.

6.4M km
Road network — 70% of goods moved by road freight (MoRTH)
3.5M+
EVs on Indian roads — VAHAN Dashboard, 2025
15-25%
Lost to unplanned breakdowns — McKinsey

Four Gaps That Define the Problem

The Routing Agent Gap

Fleet agents reroute thousands of vehicles daily across inter-state corridors. E-way bills, toll systems, state border checkpoints, and weight restrictions change by state. When a routing agent redirects 500 trucks away from an expressway, costing lakhs in delayed deliveries, there is no reasoning trace. Was it traffic data? A weather signal? A stale road-closure feed?

The Maintenance Agent Gap

Predictive maintenance agents defer brake inspections, delay tyre replacements, and schedule servicing around operational demands. Unplanned breakdowns cost fleet operators 15-25% in lost productivity. When an agent defers a critical inspection by 48 hours and a breakdown follows, nobody can reconstruct the decision chain.

The EV Agent Gap

3.5 million EVs are on Indian roads. Charging agents decide when and where to charge each vehicle. Battery health agents predict degradation curves. V2G agents decide when to sell power back to the grid. These agents must coordinate — charging decisions affect battery life, battery life affects range, range affects routing. No coordination layer exists.

The Compliance Gap

AIS 140 telematics, E-way bills, FASTag reconciliation, VAHAN and SARATHI integration, inter-state permits — compliance is fragmented across manual processes and disconnected systems. Agents make compliance-relevant decisions every minute, but no audit trail connects agent reasoning to regulatory requirements.

The Core Problem

This isn't a telematics problem. It's an agent operations problem. The agents work. The flight recorder doesn't exist.

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02 - Fleet Agents Without Operations
What Happens When Fleet Agents Decide Without Governance
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Most fleet tech vendors ship a dashboard and call it AI. Agentic fleet systems — where AI reasons across vehicles, routes, regulations, and infrastructure autonomously — need a fundamentally different governance architecture. The gap between deployed agents and governed agents is where operational and safety risk lives.

Fleet Agents Without Operations

  • Deploy routing agent, no reasoning trace for route decisions
  • Maintenance agent runs in isolation — no coordination with dispatch
  • Driver safety agent flags reviewed manually, days later
  • No central registry of agents across fleet operations
  • E-way bill compliance is a separate manual process
  • Hope the agent doesn't reroute through a restricted zone

Fleet Agents with Rotavision

  • Every agent registered with autonomy level and fleet impact scope
  • Reasoning capture for route optimisation decisions — why this route?
  • Multi-agent coordination across routing + maintenance + compliance
  • Driver safety agents with vernacular coaching in 22 languages
  • Predictive maintenance agent explains failure predictions with sensor evidence
  • Automated E-way bill and regulatory compliance with full audit trails

The Fleet Agent Risk Taxonomy

When fleet agents make autonomous decisions at production scale, they encode risk across every domain. Without governance, these risks multiply across every vehicle, every route, every day:

Risk CategoryAgent BehaviourImpact on Fleet Operations
SafetyMaintenance deferral, driver fatigue thresholdsBreakdowns on highways, accident liability
RoutingStale data, restricted zone violationsDelayed deliveries, regulatory penalties
Driver FairnessRegional origin, language, name-based scoringDriver attrition, union conflicts, legal exposure
EV OperationsBattery over-discharge, charging schedule errorsPremature battery degradation, range failures
ComplianceMissed E-way bills, AIS 140 reporting gapsGoods seizure, fines, permit revocations
The Fleet Agent Risk

When a human dispatcher makes a bad routing decision, it affects one truck. When a fleet agent encodes a bias or operates on stale data, it affects every vehicle at production scale. Agent governance isn't a feature — it's the operating system.

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03 - Agent Use Cases
Agentic AI for India's Roads
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Not generic fleet software adapted for India — autonomous agents solving the specific problems Indian fleet operators and OEMs face every day. Each use case demands agent governance built for the Indian context.

1. Fleet Operations Agents

India's inter-state logistics is among the most complex in the world. A single truck moving goods from Bangalore to Delhi navigates E-way bills, varied toll systems via FASTag, state border checkpoints, road conditions ranging from six-lane expressways to single-lane rural roads, and weight restrictions that change by state. Multi-agent systems — routing agents, dispatch agents, load optimisation agents — coordinate across vehicles, warehouses, drivers, and regulatory checkpoints, making thousands of autonomous decisions daily.

When a routing agent reroutes 500 trucks, its reasoning chain must be traceable. When dispatch and maintenance agents operate in silos, missed coordination creates safety risk. Gati provides fleet intelligence built for Indian road conditions and regulatory complexity. Orchestrate manages the multi-agent lifecycle — registration, policy enforcement, reasoning capture, and coordination across all fleet agents.

2. EV Fleet Intelligence Agents

India's fleet electrification is accelerating — 3.5M+ EVs registered, with FAME II and PM E-Drive subsidies driving commercial fleet adoption. EV agents manage charging schedules, battery health monitoring, range prediction, and electrification transition planning. A charging agent decides when and where to charge each vehicle in a 200-EV fleet. A battery health agent predicts degradation curves under Indian heat conditions where ambient temperatures regularly exceed 45°C. A V2G agent decides when to sell power back to the grid.

These agents must coordinate — charging decisions affect battery life, battery life affects range, range affects routing. Gati powers EV fleet intelligence. Guardian monitors battery health agents and charging agents for drift and reliability, ensuring predictions degrade gracefully rather than catastrophically.

3. Vehicle Safety and Compliance Agents

AIS 140 telematics mandates GPS tracking, emergency alerts, and driver behaviour monitoring for commercial vehicles. Integration with VAHAN and SARATHI databases is required. ADAS systems make split-second decisions — emergency braking, collision avoidance — that must be explainable for insurance claims and legal proceedings. Driver safety agents add fatigue detection, hours-of-service compliance, and behaviour coaching in 22 languages.

Guardian provides reliability monitoring for ADAS systems and OTA updates. Vishwas makes agent decisions explainable — why did the ADAS brake? Why did the safety agent flag this driver? — in the language regulators and insurers need.

The Common Thread

Every use case requires the same thing: agents that can be registered, monitored, explained, and bounded. The use case is specific. The governance architecture is universal.

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04 - Agent Economics
The Cost Architecture for Fleet Agent Operations
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Fleet operators obsess over cost-per-km. But agent economics work differently. The 10x cost differences come from agent routing architecture — how you process telematics events, when you invoke agent reasoning, and whether you've built for Indian connectivity realities. The Trust Cascade routes each decision to the cheapest sufficient intelligence layer.

"~80% of fleet events can be handled by edge rules. ~15% by on-premise ML. Only ~5% genuinely benefit from agent reasoning. But most deployments route 100% through cloud AI. That's not strategy — that's waste."

Agent Decision Routing: The Trust Cascade

LayerDaily Events (5,000 vehicles)Cost/EventDaily Cost
L1: Edge Rules (~80%)4,00,000Rs 0.001Rs 400
L2: On-Premise ML (~15%)75,000Rs 0.05Rs 3,750
L3: Single Agent (~4%)20,000Rs 0.50Rs 10,000
L4: Multi-Agent Tribunal (~1%)5,000Rs 5Rs 25,000
Cascaded Total5,00,000Rs 0.08 avgRs 39,150
Pure Cloud AI (all events)5,00,000Rs 0.35-0.50Rs 1.75-2.5L

The Six Architectural Sins of Fleet Agent Deployment

1. Continuous Processing

Processing every GPS ping through AI when 95% of the time the vehicle is on expected route. You're paying to confirm nothing changed.

2. Cloud-First Architecture

Sending all telematics to cloud for processing. With 1.2M AIS 140 devices transmitting, bandwidth costs alone bankrupt ROI.

3. No Edge Intelligence

Every decision routed to central AI. No on-device processing for obvious cases like speeding or harsh braking detection.

4. Overbuilt Models

Using transformer models for simple geofencing. A 100KB rule engine handles 80% of cases at 0.1% of the cost.

5. No Caching

Recalculating routes for the same origin-destination pairs. Most fleets have 50-100 common routes that rarely change.

6. Verbose Telemetry

Transmitting full sensor readings when deltas would suffice. 90% of data transmitted is redundant with the previous reading.

The Multiplier Effect

These sins multiply: 10x (continuous) x 3x (cloud-first) x 2x (no edge) x 1.5x (overbuilt) = 90x optimal cost. Agent operations architecture eliminates this waste.

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05 - Regulatory Compliance
Bharat NCAP, AIS 140, and the Compliance Stack
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Fleet agents operate within a dense regulatory matrix — AIS 140 telematics, E-way bills, FASTag, inter-state permits, VAHAN and SARATHI databases, and emerging Bharat NCAP safety ratings. When your agents make autonomous decisions, every compliance requirement becomes an agent governance requirement.

The Fleet Compliance Stack Mapped to Agent Governance

RegulationRequirementAgent Governance ImplicationRotavision
AIS 140GPS tracking, emergency alerts, driver behaviour for commercial vehiclesTelematics agents must log every decision with reasoning traceGati
Bharat NCAPVehicle safety ratings, ADAS performance standardsADAS agents must produce explainable decisions for incident investigationVishwas
E-way BillsElectronic documentation for goods over Rs 50,000Compliance agents must auto-generate and reconcile with zero gapsGati
FASTagElectronic toll collection, route documentationRouting agents must integrate toll cost into route optimisation reasoningOrchestrate
VAHAN/SARATHIVehicle registration and driving licence databasesCompliance agents must validate vehicle and driver status in real timeAgentOps
Inter-State PermitsState-specific vehicle operation permitsRouting agents must enforce permit boundaries and flag violationsGuardian

MoRTH Data Requirements for Agent Operations

Commercial Vehicle Agent Compliance Matrix

Category
Agent Data Points
Frequency
Current Compliance
Location
GPS coordinates, speed, direction, route reasoning
Every 10-60 seconds
1.2M vehicles compliant
Safety
Emergency alerts, harsh events, ADAS decisions, driver fatigue
Event-triggered
Partial implementation
Documents
E-way bill, driver licence, vehicle RC, permits
Per trip
Manual in most fleets
Maintenance
Service records, fitness certificate, agent deferral reasoning
Periodic
Poor digitisation
The Compliance Reality

If your fleet agents can't explain their decisions to MoRTH auditors, compliance is impossible. Governance isn't a layer you add later. It's the architecture fleet agents must be built on.

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06 - Agent Operations Architecture
The Agent Operations Stack for Fleet
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Deploying a fleet agent is not the same as operating one. The Agent Operations Stack is the infrastructure layer between your fleet agents and production — ensuring every agent is registered, governed, monitored, and bounded before it reroutes a single vehicle.

"The industry doesn't have a fleet agent deployment problem. It has an agent operations problem. The agents work. The infrastructure to govern them doesn't exist."

Five Layers of Fleet Agent Operations

1

Agent Registry

Every fleet agent registered with a unique identity, version, owner, risk classification, and autonomy level. Routing agents, maintenance agents, EV agents, compliance agents — all catalogued with permitted actions, data access, and fleet impact scope. No unregistered agents in production.

2

Policy Engine

Declarative policies enforced at gateway, sidecar, and inline layers. Policies define what agents can reroute, what maintenance decisions they can defer, cost thresholds for EV charging, and escalation triggers for safety-critical decisions. Policy as code — version-controlled, auditable, enforceable in real time.

3

Reasoning Capture

The flight recorder for fleet agent decisions. Every routing choice, maintenance deferral, charging schedule, and compliance action captured with full provenance. When MoRTH asks why a vehicle was rerouted, or an insurer asks why ADAS braked, you have the complete trace — not a log file, but a reconstructable decision path.

4

Bounded Autonomy

Fleet agents decide within guardrails. Routine routing decisions are fully autonomous. Maintenance deferrals on safety-critical components require post-hoc review. Decisions that affect driver safety trigger synchronous human-in-the-loop approval. Boundaries are configurable per agent, per vehicle class, per risk tier.

5

Human-in-the-Loop

Not a checkbox — a workflow. When fleet agents escalate, dispatchers and fleet managers receive the full reasoning chain, the agent's confidence assessment, and the specific policy trigger that caused escalation. Decisions are logged back into the agent's learning loop for continuous improvement.

The Rotavision Difference

Operations, not just deployment. Every layer is built for fleet and automotive operations — where an ungoverned agent isn't just an engineering risk, it's a safety hazard and a regulatory violation.

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07 - Production Readiness
Five Gates for Fleet Agent Production
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Before any fleet agent launches in production, it must clear five gates. These aren't bureaucratic hurdles — they're the foundations of agent operations that will survive Indian road conditions, satisfy MoRTH auditors, and keep your fleet safe at scale.

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Gate 1: Agent Registration

Agent registered in enterprise registry with unique identity, version, owner, and risk classification. Autonomy level defined — fully autonomous, supervised, or human-in-the-loop. Permitted actions include route changes, maintenance deferrals, charging schedules, and compliance reporting. Data access boundaries and fleet impact scope documented.

2

Gate 2: Reasoning Capture

Flight recorder active for every agent decision. Complete reasoning chain — inputs, intermediate steps, tool calls, outputs — stored with full provenance. Why was this route chosen? Why was this maintenance deferred? Audit trail reconstructable for any historical decision. Retention aligned to MoRTH record-keeping requirements.

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Gate 3: Reliability Monitoring

Drift detection enabled for agent behaviour over time. Sensor anomaly detection active — catching degraded GPS, faulty accelerometers, and stale data feeds. Connectivity loss handling tested — edge processing maintains core functions when network drops. Alerts configured with on-call routing for production incidents.

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Gate 4: Safety and Fairness

Driver scoring monitored for regional origin bias, language-based discrimination, and caste proxy detection. ADAS decision explainability validated for insurance and legal proceedings. Maintenance deferral safety envelope enforced. Vernacular coaching tested across 22 languages. Continuous monitoring, not one-time testing.

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Gate 5: Bounded Autonomy and Compliance

Policy enforcement configured and tested. Human-in-the-loop workflows active for safety-critical decisions. AIS 140 data formatting validated. E-way bill integration tested. FASTag reconciliation automated. Cost controls, rate limits, and budget caps operational. Graceful degradation to lower-cost layers defined.

"A fleet agent should not launch until all five gates are cleared. In Indian fleet operations, this isn't optional — it's the minimum bar for operational safety and regulatory compliance."

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08 - The Platform
Agent Governance Infrastructure for Fleet and Automotive
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Rotavision provides the complete agent governance infrastructure for Indian fleet operations and automotive. Five products built from first principles for agent operations, Indian road conditions, Indian compliance, and Indian driver communication.

Gati

Fleet & Mobility Intelligence Platform

Purpose-built fleet intelligence for Indian road conditions. AIS 140 integration out of the box. Trust Cascade architecture for cost-efficient processing. Routing, dispatch, and load optimisation agents with full reasoning capture. EV fleet intelligence — charging, range prediction, and electrification planning. 22-language driver interface.

Orchestrate

Multi-Agent Fleet Operations & Governance

Enterprise-grade agent orchestration with Trust Cascade routing, policy enforcement, and bounded autonomy. Manages the multi-agent lifecycle — registration, reasoning capture, and coordination across routing, maintenance, safety, and EV agents. The operational backbone for governed fleet agent deployment.

Guardian

Vehicle AI Reliability & Drift Monitoring

Continuous production monitoring for fleet agent behaviour. Catches drift in route predictions, sensor anomalies, and model degradation before they impact operations. ADAS reliability monitoring and OTA update verification. Safety envelope monitoring for maintenance agents.

Vishwas

Agent Decision Explainability for Fleet & Safety

Explainability for fleet agent decisions — why was this route chosen, why was this maintenance deferred, why did the ADAS brake. Driver scoring fairness monitoring for regional, language, and caste proxy bias. Explanations in the language regulators, insurers, and drivers understand.

AgentOps

Enterprise Agent Registry & Policy Engine (from RotaScale)

Centralised agent registry with identity, autonomy levels, and risk classification for every fleet agent. Declarative policy engine enforced at runtime. Flight recorder for every agent decision. VAHAN, SARATHI, and FASTag integration connectors. The control plane for enterprise fleet agent operations.

Built for Indian Roads. Agent-First.

Your infrastructure. On-premise, private cloud, or hybrid. No data leaves India. Every product built for agent governance in fleet operations. AIS 140 and Bharat NCAP compliant from day one.

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09 - Fleet Agent Implementations
What Fleet Operators and OEMs Build
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Production agent systems managing routing, maintenance, EV operations, safety, and compliance across thousands of vehicles daily. Each implementation demonstrates what becomes possible when fleet agents have proper operations infrastructure.

Multi-Agent Route Optimisation

Routing, dispatch, and load agents coordinated through Orchestrate. Reasoning capture for every route decision — why this corridor, why this sequence. FASTag toll optimisation integrated. Trust Cascade routes 80% of events through edge rules. Full audit trail for E-way bill reconciliation.

Result: 18% fuel savings with complete routing decision traceability

Predictive Maintenance with Reasoning Capture

Maintenance agent predicts failures 2-3 weeks in advance, calibrated for Indian vehicle conditions and road quality. Every deferral decision explained with sensor evidence. Safety envelope prevents deferral of brake and tyre inspections beyond defined thresholds. Guardian monitors for prediction drift.

Result: 28% reduction in maintenance costs, 45% fewer roadside breakdowns

EV Fleet Intelligence with Agent Governance

Charging, battery health, and V2G agents coordinated with full reasoning capture. Range prediction calibrated for Indian heat, traffic, and terrain. FAME/PM E-Drive subsidy compliance automated. Battery degradation predictions monitored for drift. DISCOM tariff integration for charging optimisation.

Result: 25% improvement in EV utilisation, full subsidy compliance

Driver Safety with Fairness Monitoring

Driver scoring with Vishwas bias detection — regional origin, language, and caste proxy monitoring. Vernacular coaching in 22 languages. Real-time fatigue detection. Hours-of-service compliance. Safety alerts that work for drivers who don't read English.

Result: 35% reduction in accident-related costs, improved driver retention

Automated Compliance Operations

E-way bill generation and reconciliation automated. FASTag data integration for trip documentation. AIS 140 compliance monitoring with agent reasoning traces. VAHAN and SARATHI validation. Inter-state permit enforcement by routing agents. Audit-ready reports generated on demand.

Result: 90% reduction in compliance workload, zero penalties in 18 months

Fleet Agent Registry and Control Plane

AgentOps deployed as the central control plane for fleet operations. Every agent — routing, maintenance, EV, safety, compliance — registered with identity, autonomy level, and risk classification. Policy engine enforces boundaries in real time. Flight recorder captures every decision for regulatory audit.

Result: Complete agent inventory with full governance traceability

"The platform doesn't replace your fleet operations — it makes your fleet agents production-ready for Indian roads and regulations. Same capabilities, but with the governance infrastructure MoRTH expects."

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10 - Getting Started
Fleet Agent Intelligence Accelerator
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A combined assessment, platform, and integration package for fleet operators and OEMs deploying AI agents across routing, maintenance, safety, and EV operations — with Bharat NCAP and AIS 140 compliance built in.

What's Included

1

Fleet Agent Maturity Assessment

Audit agent readiness across routing, maintenance, safety, and EV operations against Bharat NCAP, AIS 140, and MoRTH compliance requirements. Gap analysis with regulatory readiness roadmap and prioritised remediation plan.

2

Agent Registry and Fleet Policy Engine

Orchestrate + AgentOps configured for fleet operations. Routing agents, maintenance agents, safety agents, and EV agents registered with autonomy boundaries, safety classification, and fleet impact scope. Policy enforcement at runtime.

3

VAHAN/SARATHI/FASTag Integration

Pre-built connectors for India's vehicle registration (VAHAN), driver licence (SARATHI), and toll (FASTag) ecosystems. Agent governance alongside existing transport infrastructure. E-way bill automation and reconciliation.

4

Regulatory Compliance Automation

AIS 140 telematics compliance, E-way bill automation, and inter-state permit management with agent reasoning traces for every compliance decision. Audit-ready for transport authorities. Bharat NCAP alignment for OEMs.

5

EV Transition Intelligence

Battery health, charging optimisation, and fleet electrification planning agents with full reasoning capture. FAME/PM E-Drive subsidy compliance and V2G governance built in. Range prediction calibrated for Indian conditions.

Platform Stack

Fleet intelligence

Gati

Agent orchestration

Orchestrate

Reliability monitoring

Guardian

Decision explainability

Vishwas

Agent registry and policy

AgentOps (RotaScale)

Fleet operations

Gati + Orchestrate

Engagement Options

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Fleet agents are making decisions across India's roads. The question is whether anyone is governing them.

6.4 million km of roads. 3.5 million EVs. Rs 3 lakh crore in logistics. Fleet agents are routing vehicles, predicting breakdowns, and managing charging infrastructure — without a flight recorder. AIS 140 mandates compliance. Bharat NCAP demands safety explainability. The agents are already deployed. The operations layer is what's missing.

We'd like to show you where you stand. A 30-minute assessment — not a sales pitch — to benchmark your fleet agent governance against regulatory requirements and identify your highest-value opportunities.

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