ESMART
ESMART
Founded in 2018, ESMART delivers practical, data-based speed management solutions for the transportation and logistics industry. With offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Saint-Laurent, Quebec, the company serves fleets across North America. Its mission focuses on addressing unsafe driving—particularly speeding—which remains one of the biggest causes of road accidents and financial loss in the commercial transport sector.
The company introduced the industry's first non-overridable speed management system, helping fleets reduce speeding incidents by nearly 90%. This advancement allows carriers to operate more safely, cut accident-related costs, and improve regulatory compliance. Its customers include trucking and logistics operators, LTL carriers, dedicated fleets, and organizations within industries such as food and beverage distribution. Each client is supported through 24/7 technical assistance and dedicated field management, ensuring reliable service and ongoing operational support.
The company's purpose is clear: to help fleets manage safety proactively rather than reactively. Through technology that enforces compliance, it assists transportation operators in lowering risk, improving insurance outcomes, and achieving higher performance standards.
The company envisions a transportation environment where safety and technology operate hand in hand. Its approach centers on Intelligent Speed Assistance systems designed to prevent drivers from exceeding safe limits. By combining innovation with accountability, it provides fleets across the United States and Canada with tools that prevent accidents and encourage compliance.
Through this approach, the company enables organizations to strengthen their safety culture, lower costs linked to violations, and ensure smoother operations across large, geographically dispersed fleets.
Mandatory ISA (Driver Non-Override): Real-time speed control based on GPS location and road-specific speed limits.
Low Bridge Collision Prevention: Automatically removes throttle input when a vehicle is heading toward a known low-clearance bridge. If the driver does not reroute, the car will coast to a stop. The system does not apply the brakes, allowing the driver to remain in control while preventing bridge strikes.
Geofencing-Based Speed Limits: Fleets can set custom speed limits within geofenced areas (e.g., customer yards, schools, terminals).
Remote Vehicle Immobilization: Authorized fleet managers can turn off a vehicle's mobility in real time to prevent unauthorized movement or theft.
Unsafe driving continues to be one of the leading factors in large truck crashes. These incidents affect compliance ratings, increase insurance costs, and can expose fleets to legal action. For many companies, the financial and reputational damage that follows is significant, making prevention an operational priority.
Traditional systems, such as telematics and electronic logging devices, offer valuable data but are limited to observation. They record behaviors after they occur, without the ability to enforce immediate correction. This leaves fleets exposed to ongoing risks, even with strong monitoring practices in place.
The company addresses this issue through an active enforcement model. Its non-overridable ISA system restricts vehicle speeds automatically using GPS coordinates, speed limits, and geofencing rules. It also adapts to environmental inputs such as weather alerts or restricted areas. By eliminating the possibility of driver override, the system ensures that compliance is consistent, measurable, and independent of individual decisions.
The company's technology not only improves driver behavior but also strengthens compliance with regulatory frameworks and insurer requirements. Fleets using the system report fewer incidents and improved Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) scores. This improvement can lead to lower insurance premiums and increased eligibility for safety-related incentives.
By integrating safety automation into everyday operations, fleets gain a sustainable way to control risk. The company's tools allow managers to set custom safety policies while maintaining centralized oversight of vehicle activity. This combination of flexibility and enforcement helps fleets of all sizes meet both safety and performance goals with reliability.
ESMART has continued to offer the transportation industry innovative safety solutions that have earned widespread adoption and recognition. Its various projects highlight the impact of its technology on fleet safety, operational efficiency, and insurer confidence.
Low Bridge Collision Prevention Development: Originally developed in collaboration with Western Express, this feature has been adopted across multiple national fleets.
National Deployment with a Top-Tier Food Carrier: Secured a fleet-wide deployment with one of the largest and most respected brands in food transportation, representing significant validation of ESMART's value and scalability.
GenOx Transportation Partnership: A specialized carrier in the cryogenic and compressed gas industry, GenOx selected ESMART to enhance fleet safety and speed control.
GP Transco Implements ESMART: One of the most technologically advanced fleets in North America, GP Transco announced the deployment of ESMART to support its safety-first initiatives and speed management policies.
K&B Transportation – 80% Reduction in Preventable Accidents: In a 2025 Commercial Carrier Journal article, K&B Transportation reported an 80% reduction in preventable accidents. The company credited ESMART's Weather-Adaptive Speed Management as a key contributor to that success by slowing trucks in impacted weather zones.
Nationwide Adoption Milestone: ESMART technology is now deployed across thousands of Class 6–8 trucks in North America, helping customers reduce speeding events by up to 90% and significantly lower crash risk.
Insurance Engagement & Risk Reduction Programs: Recognized by leading commercial trucking insurers as a technology that reduces risk and improves safety scores. Several insurance companies offer policy benefits or discounts to fleets that adopt ESMART, demonstrating the value its solutions have in reducing claims and mitigating liability exposure.
Industry Recognition & Speaking Engagements: Regularly featured at leading industry events for its thought leadership in safety innovation and compliance readiness, ESMART presented on the impact of ISA and dynamic speed management, including at the TCA (Truckload Carriers Association) Benchmarking Meeting.
ESMART remains focused on its mission to build safer highways and more responsible fleet operations across North America. Its continued investment in research and collaboration with fleets reflects a long-term vision centered on prevention, accountability, and measurable outcomes. By providing systems that automatically enforce speed limits, the company helps clients reduce crashes, protect assets, and improve sustainability in their operations.
Each deployment reinforces this goal—creating safer work environments for drivers and safer roads for all. This company continues to stand as a reliable partner for fleets seeking consistent, technology-driven improvements in safety, compliance, and efficiency.