Fleet Management for Roofing Companies

Specialty equipment trailers — debris chutes like Trash Rocket, materials trailers, dump trailers — are high-value assets that move between job sites daily. Most are parked at residential job sites overnight. Theft is a real and underwritten risk. Beyond theft, asset utilization tracking shows which trailer is at which job, which one's been sitting idle for a week, and which crews are returning equipment promptly versus letting it accumulate at job sites. The truck is easy to track because it has a driver. The trailer is the asset that needs visibility.

Two ways. First, claims defense — when a driver gets accused of being at fault, footage often disproves the claim or significantly reduces payout exposure. Second, driver behavior — knowing the camera is recording shifts driver behavior toward safer patterns over time, which reduces actual incident rates. Carriers offer premium discounts for documented dash cam programs, but the bigger savings come from fewer claims and lower payouts on the ones that do happen.

Not for federal regulations on the truck alone, with one major catch. If your truck is under 10,001 lbs but you regularly tow a loaded equipment trailer, the combined gross vehicle weight rating matters — not just the truck's. A 7,000-lb pickup hauling a 14,000-lb loaded equipment trailer puts you at 21,000+ combined. Once you cross 26,001 lbs combined, federal DOT regulations apply. Most roofing companies don't realize this until a roadside inspector points it out.

You're operating a CMV under federal regulations. That means DQ files for the drivers operating that combo, FMCSA Clearinghouse queries before hire, drug and alcohol testing program enrollment, hours of service tracking, vehicle inspection records, and DOT physicals on file. If you've been operating in this configuration without those in place, you've got compliance debt that needs to be cleaned up retroactively before the next roadside inspection or audit. We handle that.

Yes — both ways. Footage that exonerates your driver short-circuits claims before they generate payouts. Footage that shows your driver was at fault still gives you tactical advantage: settle quickly with cleaner evidence, avoid prolonged litigation, and use the incident to coach the rest of the fleet before it happens again. Carriers also view documented coaching workflows as risk reduction, which factors into renewal pricing.

We sell Raven cameras at Raven's advertised prices — zero markup. You can verify pricing on Raven's site directly. The program cost is the deployment, installation coordination, driver onboarding, footage retrieval workflow, and ongoing coaching infrastructure. Building that in-house at a 30+ truck operation typically requires a part-time fleet safety person plus the time to build the workflow from scratch. Our program runs significantly less and ships pre-built. Book the call for a real number against your fleet.