Zones are virtual boundaries you draw around real places that matter to your fleet, including your yard, customer sites, supplier locations and even whole states. After you set them up, MyGeotab can report on them, build rules around them and display the zone name in place of a street address.

MyGeotab now calls it the Zone Visits report. It shows which zones your vehicles and drivers stopped in, how many times they went and how long they stayed, so you do not have to match street addresses to customers by hand.

Each visit lists the zone name, arrival time, visit duration and departure time. The location icon next to the zone name takes you to Trips History, where you can see where the vehicle was during that stop and review the trip.

Open Productivity, then Zones, and select + Zone. Click points on the map to trace the area and click your starting point to close the shape. Name the zone, choose its settings and click Save. It is available immediately.

Yes. MyGeotab imports zones in bulk from a CSV file using coordinates, addresses or polygons. After the upload, you will see how many zones are valid and how many are not, and you can export the invalid ones to correct before importing again.

Yes. The report can be run by asset or by driver, and filtered by group, date range and zone type. Choose a summary view for an overview or the details view to see each individual visit.

No. Zone Visits only covers stops inside a zone, not drive-throughs. To know when a vehicle enters or exits a zone, create a zone rule with a notification.

Every zone that applies to the stop shows up in the report, so you keep full visibility even when customer sites, yards or service areas share the same ground.

Yes. Build rules around your zones and you will be alerted when a vehicle enters or exits one. Many fleets use departure alerts to gauge how far along a job is or to know when to get the next shipment ready.

Yes. For example, you can mark a coffee shop as a zone and get an alert if a vehicle is there for more than five minutes. The same idea works for customer sites that often run past the time you planned.

Yes. You can create off-limits zones and set up rules around them, so you are notified if a vehicle goes somewhere it should not.

Arrival, time on site and departure for each customer form a record that supports your invoices and helps settle questions about whether a visit took place. Our guide to proof of service with GPS tracking has more detail.

When you know how long crews spend at each customer and how many times they return, you can price jobs more accurately, catch work that regularly runs long and build schedules that reflect reality.

Yes. Geotab suggests using visit data to divide your territory into quadrants and giving each driver one. Drivers stop crossing paths, reach more customers and drive fewer total miles per customer and per vehicle.

Yes. Share the zone with your driver through the Geotab Drive app to dispatch them to that location.

Yes. The Publish to groups setting lets you assign a zone to specific vehicles and drivers when you create or edit it. By default it applies to your company group, which includes everyone in your database.

Yes. Give a zone an end date and it will expire on its own, which works well for short-term job sites, seasonal locations and one-time projects.

Changing a zone’s shape or type can affect event data for your vehicles, and you will need to reprocess your data to apply the update to any rules that rely on zones. If you delete a zone, reports that used to show its name will show the street address instead, when one is available.

Yes. Use the Report menu in MyGeotab to download the report, open it in your browser or prepare a PDF. Large reports can take a few minutes, and you can check progress under My Reports.