Customer stories/Kooner Fleet Management Solutions - FleetIQ, built on Roam by Boxworks
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Customer story: Kooner Fleet Management Solutions - FleetIQ, built on Roam by Boxworks

Kooner Fleet Management Solutions service trucks outside the depot

How Kooner Fleet Management Solutions tripled its work for one of North America's largest fleets

Kooner Fleet Management Solutions runs a mobile diesel repair network across the US and Canada on FleetIQ, its white-labelled edition of Roam by Boxworks. When one of North America's largest fleets asked for every repair to be documented and delivered automatically, FleetIQ automated job intake, connected Kooner FMS directly to the customer's own systems and put a guided, evidence-rich workflow in every technician's hands. Weekly volume more than tripled while customer standards kept rising.

Over 3x

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

weekly jobs since 2023

+71%

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

jobs created per month within two months of automated intake

100%

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

of the sites Kooner FMS serves for the fleet on direct integration, four weeks after a one-site pilot

~240

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

technicians working on FleetIQ each week

3x

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

the checks in every trailer DOT inspection on an extended customer standard

~70%

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

of estimates approved automatically by Kooner FMS' platform spend rules

99%

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

of jobs billing-reviewed within 48 hours of completion

98%

Customer measuredMeasured by the customer on its own weekly vendor scorecards.

repair-code (VMRS) completeness on customer scorecards

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The challenge: data became the price of growth

Kooner FMS started in 2016 with one service truck. By 2023 it ran a mobile diesel repair network across multiple states, serving one of North America's largest fleets: a logistics operator running tens of thousands of trailers, tractors and vans across hundreds of sites, which manages its maintenance vendors through its own systems and weekly scorecards. It wanted every repair documented in line-item detail and delivered automatically.

Kooner FMS’ towing-dispatch software had been built for a smaller operation:

Jobs arrived through a third-party broker portal and were keyed in by hand.

Customers asked for up to 80 data points on every repair, and the old system couldn't capture most of them.

There were no repair codes, estimates or inspection checklists, and parts were named and priced by hand.

An inspection was recorded as photos and a line of free text.

Growth followed the data

Kooner Fleet Management Solutions: jobs created per month

January 2023 to September 2026. Chart shows relative growth; absolute volumes are commercially confidential.

Automated intakeDirect integration2023202420252026

Automated intake, 2023

Jobs created per month rose 71% in the next two months

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

Capacity the old way could never have staffed

At the pace jobs were keyed in by hand in 2023, today's volume would need about 40 people doing nothing but data entry: headcount Kooner FMS never had to add.

DerivedCalculated by Boxworks from recorded figures. Basis given in How we measured.

A daily data feed, every day for 13 months

Work orders reported to customers automatically, without a missed day

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

Wider scope as the data flowed

In a single year, tractor work grew 4.7× and the sites Kooner FMS served for its customer went from 174 to 400

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

Direct integration, 2025

FleetIQ passed the customer’s integration tests, piloted at a single site within the week, and was live across every site four weeks later.

Customer measuredTaken from the customer’s correspondence.

The business result

Kooner FMS reported 599% three-year revenue growth, ranking No. 692 on the 2025 Inc. 5000

Public

What FleetIQ puts in front of the office

FleetIQ exception queue showing part delays, dry runs and transfer requests flagged and queued by priority
FleetIQ job detail for a flagged part delay, showing site details and the assigned technician

Exceptions surface themselves

Part delays, dry runs and transfer requests are flagged and queued by priority, with the job detail and the fix in one view.

FleetIQ map showing a breakdown asset, the assigned technician's location and estimated arrival

Every asset and technician, live

Breakdowns, technician locations and ETAs on one map, without end-of-day reports.

And in every technician's hands

FleetIQ technician app showing the job, its route and live traffic

Route and arrival

The job, the route and live traffic.

FleetIQ technician app warning that the technician is not at a recognised location, with the job address and distance

Geofenced check-in

Arrival checked against the job address.

FleetIQ technician app guiding the technician on foot to the specific asset

Walk to the asset

The right vehicle, every time.*requires asset location via integration

FleetIQ technician app capturing inspection photos and outcome media in order

Guided inspection

Every step and photo captured in order.

FleetIQ technician app structured write-up capturing cause, checks undertaken and correction

Concern, cause, correction

A structured write-up on every job.

More proof in every job

Roam ships with standard inspection workflows and takes on far heavier ones where customers specify them. Boxworks built an extended DOT trailer inspection into Roam’s field app. The table shows how much more each job captures over six months.

Trailer DOT inspection
On the new customer standard
Checklist questions
31 → 92 (3×), with up to 109 on some trailers
Photos per inspection
+35%, including 14 named DOT photos required on every inspection
Repairs raised
The enhanced checklist raises a repair on about 1 in 5 inspections, up from about 1 in 8

Weighted by standard work content, the measure workshops use, output per technician rose about 10% over the same period

Scale while the bar rose

Customer scorecards didn’t stand still while Kooner FMS grew. They measured more, in finer detail, against tighter targets.

Measure
Then
Now
KPIs scored each week
18 (early 2025)
25–29, peaking at 45
Repair-time categories measured
4
10
Repair-time targets
Contract service levels
Cut by 50–80%
Raw data sent with each scorecard
None
Tens of thousands of rows a week

Under the stricter scorecard:

Customer measuredMeasured by the customer on its own weekly vendor scorecards.

Kooner FMS remains a strategic vendor and has recently beaten the network average on 9 of 10 repair-time measures.

Urgent repair times fell 40–50% for trailers and about 40% for tractors.

Kooner FMS’ management drove these results with coaching, metro-area technician clusters and regular reviews. FleetIQ supplied the measurement, controls and data they managed by.

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What changed, from both sides

For Kooner FMS

A 240-technician network run from one record

No double entry

Jobs arrive from customers’ own systems, and status, photos and completions flow back on their own.

Rules, not people, decide most estimates

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

Kooner FMS’ spend rules approve about 70% of estimates automatically

Billing within the benchmark

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

99% of jobs are billing-reviewed within 48 hours of completion

More work per dispatcher

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

Work orders per dispatcher rose 26% in six months

Routes kept current

Whenever a job is added, removed or reordered, live-traffic ETAs are recalculated for the rest of the technician’s route

Dispatch tuned from data

Leadership used FleetIQ’s replan and utilisation data to diagnose and rebalance dispatch.

Data on tap

Hourly exports for Kooner FMS’ analysts; a request for 1,400 inspection reports was met by export instead of by hand.

For its customers

A vendor it can see, measure and audit

Real-time status in its own system

Its agents no longer chase updates by email and phone.

Faster arrival

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

Time from work request to technician on site fell 16% in six months

Standard repair codes

Customer measuredMeasured by the customer on its own weekly vendor scorecards.

On 98% of jobs

Parts priced to contract on every line

Applied automatically from customer rate cards

Invoices it can check line by line

Sent straight to its payments system: live for the first asset class and in production verification

Enterprise security review

FleetIQ went through an enterprise customer’s third-party security review, with final sign-off pending

The same repair, legacy and Roam

Category
Before FleetIQ
Roam, whitelabelled as FleetIQ
Vehicle
A unit number
Synced with each customer’s record, reference, purchase order and authorised spend
Write-up
A short typed note
A structured concern, cause and correction, drafted by AI from industry standard VMRS data
Evidence
A few photos
Arrival and departure walk-arounds, named inspection photos, video and voice notes
Parts
Freely named and priced by hand
Coded at three VMRS levels, with cause and action codes, priced to contract
Estimates
None
Per part, through each customer’s approval flow, mostly approved automatically by rule
Technician
Free to choose the steps
Guided step by step, from route to walk-around to sign-off
Service start
Not measurable
Measured on every job
FleetIQ technician app shown on two phones, one guiding a technician to an asset on foot and one showing the live route map

Call records from March–May 2023 and completed Roam work orders read in full.

Roam screens, shown with sample data. Asset locations need an integration to be powered

System recordsTaken from FleetIQ work orders and Kooner FMS’ dispatch records.

In their own words

“

Fleet maintenance has operated without the visibility and coordination that modern fleets require.

Gary Kooner

Gary Kooner

Founder and CEO
Kooner Fleet Management Solutions, March 2026

“

It’s capturing all of the maintenance data, which is allowing us to then be predictive and prescriptive on maintenance for our clients.

Mike Quimby

Mike Quimby

Chief Operating Officer
Kooner Fleet Management Solutions, to Trucking Info, October 2025

“

The entire work order can be closed out safely on the side of the road.

Bill Cooper

Bill Cooper

Vice President of Sales
Kooner Fleet Management Solutions, January 2026

“

It separates us from our competitors.

Kevin Satz

Kevin Satz

Vice President of Marketing
Kooner Fleet Management Solutions, on FleetIQ, November 2025

“

FleetIQ was created to close the gap between maintenance data and action.

Mike Quimby

Mike Quimby

Chief Operating Officer
Kooner Fleet Management Solutions, September 2026

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Recognition

AutoTech Breakthrough Awards 2025 badge

Fleet Management Innovation of the Year, AutoTech Breakthrough Awards, 2025

Awarded to FleetIQ.

FreightWaves FreightTech 100 badge

FreightWaves FreightTech 100, 2027 list

Kooner FMS and FleetIQ, named in September 2026.

Food Logistics Top Tech Startup badge

Top Tech Startup, Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive, 2025

Recognised for FleetIQ.

Supply Chain Excellence Awards USA 2026 finalist badge

Supply Chain Excellence Awards USA 2026, finalist

Shortlisted in the transportation, fleet and workforce operations product category.

Inc. 5000 2025 badge

Inc. 5000, 2025: No. 692

Kooner FMS, with 599% three-year revenue growth.

Sacramento Business Journal feature

Sacramento Business Journal feature, November 2025

Reports that FleetIQ was “developed over several years in collaboration with a leading U.K.-based technology partner”. That partner is Boxworks.

The coverage reports Kooner FMS’ announcements. This case study uses only figures we can trace to a record.

For UK fleets and workshops

The same demand for evidence, in a different rulebook

DVSA’s Earned Recognition scheme expects a complete set of safety inspection records, held electronically, each completed correctly and within its stated frequency — GOV.UK. Roam records each inspection as a structured checklist with photos, the defects found and the repair raised from each one.

What’s new, and what’s next

Now available: Client portal

Customers raise and track their own work requests, with access tailored to each customer group

Coming soon: Work requests by API

Customers send orders straight from their own systems

Coming soon: Auto-dispatch

Recommended assignments for 240+ technicians

Coming soon: Auto-billing and a billing agent

Tariff checks at billing, so every value-added task is billed correctly

Coming soon: customers configuring their own workflows and templates

Each customer sets what technicians ask and inspect

How we measured

Every figure in this customer story comes from a record, and each one says where it comes from.

Customer measured

The customer’s weekly vendor scorecards. Customer records: quarterly business reviews and correspondence.

System records

Kooner FMS’ dispatch records (January 2023 onwards), the daily data feed (February 2024 to February 2025), and FleetIQ work orders, billing reviews, estimates and shift records (March and September 2026).

Derived

Calculated from 2023 manual keying rates applied to current volume

Benchmarks

DVSA Earned Recognition standards.

Public

Linked above.

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