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VanVed vs LocoNav
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Why businesses choose VanVed over LocoNav
VanVed covers the paperwork and the money side of a fleet — document expiry, fuel and maintenance cost, freight earned per trip — with nothing to install, and it sits in the same tenant that invoices the customer and pays the driver. LocoNav sells telematics; it does not run the rest of the business.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | LocoNav |
|---|---|---|
| GPS tracking and geofence alerts | No over-speeding, idling or geofence alerts, but a webhook ingest endpoint now takes position pings from any provider and shows a last-known-position card (with an OpenStreetMap link) once one is connected | Live GPS with over-speeding, idling and entry/exit geofence alerts |
| Hardware and installation | None needed | A tracker must be fitted to every vehicle |
| FASTag and toll | Not built | FASTag recharge and toll spend in-app, with cashback |
| Fuel monitoring | Manual fuel logs with litres, cost and odometer, now with consumption/efficiency reporting per vehicle — no sensor telemetry or theft alerts | Fuel sensor telemetry with theft and drop alerts |
| Vehicle and driver documents | Insurance, fitness certificate, permit, PUC and licence expiry, with an expiring-documents view — fixed at a 30-day window | RC, PUC and fuel bills stored, with RTO lookups |
| Trip revenue and customer invoicing | Freight amount per trip, and the same tenant raises the invoice | Fleet operations focus; billing the customer happens elsewhere |
| Driver mobile app | None — fleet is web only | Android and iOS apps used daily by owners and drivers |
| Cost | Included in the platform subscription | Per-device subscription plus the tracker hardware |
Where LocoNav is ahead of us today
LocoNav is a telematics company and VanVed bundles no telematics of its own: no over-speeding or geofence alerts, no fuel-sensor theft detection, no FASTag or toll integration, and no driver app — its webhook ingest can show a position once a provider is connected, but supplies neither the hardware nor the provider relationship. For an Indian transport operator, FASTag and live tracking are often the reason they buy software at all, and on that question VanVed still does not fully compete.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, LocoNav may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Fleet module does
- Vehicle registry
Track every vehicle — registration, type and status — in one place.
- Drivers
Keep driver records and see who is assigned to what.
- Trips
Log trips against a vehicle and a driver.
- Fuel logs
Record fuel fill-ups and track fuel cost over time.
- Maintenance logs
Track service and maintenance history per vehicle.