FleetCollect, a trucking-compliance software platform, has launched a new Community section inside its IFTA app for iPhone and Android that transforms the mileage drivers already log for quarterly fuel-tax reports into a nationwide leaderboard, experience points, and a social feed connecting owner-operators and small-fleet drivers across all 50 states.
Long-haul trucking is isolating work, and compliance software has historically made that worse by being solitary utilities that drivers open alone, file with, and close. While trucking community apps exist, they typically require extra effort to participate. FleetCollect took the opposite approach: the community is built directly on the work drivers already do. The miles a driver tracks for the International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) are the same miles that rank them, with nothing extra to log.
The Community leaderboard ranks drivers by total GPS miles driven, the same miles the app records for IFTA, across two windows: This Week and This Month. It shows the top 50 drivers platform-wide plus each driver’s own rank, with gold, silver, and bronze medals for the top three and rank-change arrows showing movement against the prior period. Boards reset every Monday and on the first of each month, anchored to a live countdown. At each rollover, the top 10 finishers are recorded, and badges for first, second, third, and Top 10 finishes accumulate permanently on a driver’s profile.
Drivers earn experience points for actual operating activity: completing a trip (10 XP, plus 5 XP per 100 miles), logging a fuel stop (3 XP), opening the app each day (5 XP), setting a username (one-time 25 XP), and posting in the feed (1 XP, capped at 10 per day). Each level costs 50 XP multiplied by the level number, and every avatar carries a colored ring that changes tier as the driver levels up.
The Drivers Lounge is a global feed open to every FleetCollect driver, featuring 280-character text posts, images, video, and GIFs, with likes and threaded replies. A separate read-only Activity feed carries the platform’s automatic announcements, including trip completions, lifetime-mileage milestones, level-ups, and movements into the weekly Top 10.
Privacy is built in by default. Every driver appears simply as ‘Driver #’ followed by an ID number until they opt in to a username and profile photo. Real names are never displayed across companies. Profiles show lifetime miles and trips, a day-streak counter, level and XP, a grid of leaderboard finishes, and a public post-and-reply history.
‘Every community app for truckers asks them to stop working and go somewhere else — a forum, a Discord server, a map,’ said Herman Armstrong, founder of FleetCollect. ‘We built ours on the work itself. The miles you track for IFTA are the miles that rank you. If you drove this week, you’re already on the board.’
‘Nobody wakes up excited about fuel-tax paperwork,’ Armstrong added. ‘But every driver wants to know where they stack up against drivers in the other 49 states.’
The Community is available now to all drivers inside the FleetCollect IFTA app on iPhone and Android. The app provides automatic state-by-state GPS mileage tracking and automatic quarterly IFTA report generation from $14 per month. Details at https://fleetcollect.net/community.
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