Dispatchers and compliance administrators today spend significant time manually reviewing and annotating unidentified driving events caused by internal movements — mechanics repositioning vehicles, yard shunts, and brief moves within a facility — that have no bearing on regulated on-road driving. Auto-Annotate Yard Moves is a new setting in HOS System Settings that automatically annotates short unidentified driving events occurring entirely within a yard or depot.

This feature was explicitly requested by large fleet customers and directly addresses a capability that competitors currently offer. Fleets with significant yard or depot activity — including transportation, logistics, and distribution fleets — will see an immediate reduction in manual HOS annotation work and a cleaner, easier-to-audit compliance record.

Administrators configure a zone type and a custom annotation label, and Geotab's background service automatically detects qualifying trips using GPS point-in-polygon containment, annotating both the Drive log and the ON-duty log near real time. Manually annotated events are left untouched, so existing workflows continue without disruption. There is no additional cost, and the feature is available to any administrator with existing HOS System Settings access.

This feature will be available in mid-October.