Motive

Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is a fleet management platform serving more than 120,000 businesses across trucking, logistics, construction, agriculture, and field service industries. The Motive REST API provides programmatic access to driver management, vehicle tracking, Hours of Service (HOS) compliance, IFTA reporting, dashcam events, dispatch workflows, geofencing, and real-time location data. Developers authenticate via OAuth 2.0 with scoped access tokens and can reach endpoints at api.gomotive.com (or the legacy api.keeptruckin.com base URL). The self-serve Developer Portal allows partners to build and publish apps to the Motive App Marketplace, and Postman collections are available alongside interactive API reference documentation.

Motive publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Fleet API. Tagged areas include Fleet Management, Trucking, Logistics, GPS Tracking, and Hours of Service.

The Motive catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Motive’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, and 15 more developer resources.

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32.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Fleet Management Trucking Logistics GPS Tracking Hours of Service ELDIFTADash Cam Dispatch ComplianceDriver Management

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 32.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.1 / 20

Access Clarity 11.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Motive Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

BlogIndex

BlogIndex

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: motive
name: Motive
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/motive.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/motive/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-12
modified: 2026-06-12
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: 'Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is a fleet management platform serving more than 120,000 businesses across trucking,
  logistics, construction, agriculture, and field service industries. The Motive REST API provides programmatic access to
  driver management, vehicle tracking, Hours of Service (HOS) compliance, IFTA reporting, dashcam events, dispatch workflows,
  geofencing, and real-time location data. Developers authenticate via OAuth 2.0 with scoped access tokens and can reach endpoints
  at api.gomotive.com (or the legacy api.keeptruckin.com base URL). The self-serve Developer Portal allows partners to build
  and publish apps to the Motive App Marketplace, and Postman collections are available alongside interactive API reference
  documentation.

  '
tags:
- Fleet Management
- Trucking
- Logistics
- GPS Tracking
- Hours of Service
- ELD
- IFTA
- Dash Cam
- Dispatch
- Compliance
- Driver Management
tags_raw:
- Fleet Management
- Trucking
- Logistics
- GPS Tracking
- Hours of Service
- ELD
- IFTA
- Dashcam
- Dispatch
- Compliance
- Driver Management
apis:
- name: Motive Fleet API
  description: 'Core REST API providing access to driver management, vehicle tracking, Hours of Service logs, IFTA trip reports,
    inspection reports, dashcam events, dispatch workflows, geofencing, messaging, fuel purchases, Motive Card transactions,
    and webhooks for event-driven integrations.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.gomotive.com/
  baseURL: https://api.gomotive.com
  tags:
  - Fleet Management
  - GPS Tracking
  - Hours of Service
  - IFTA
  - Dispatch
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Fleet Management
  - GPS Tracking
  - Hours of Service
  - IFTA
  - Dispatch
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer-docs.gomotive.com/docs/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer-docs.gomotive.com/reference/introduction
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://developer-docs.gomotive.com/llms.txt
  contact:
  - FN: Motive API Support
    email: apisupport@gomotive.com
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/motive-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/motive-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://gomotive.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer-docs.gomotive.com/docs/introduction
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer-docs.gomotive.com/reference/introduction
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.gomotive.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/KeepTruckin
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/motive-inc
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/Motive_inc
- type: Blog
  url: https://gomotive.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://gomotive.com/blog/feed
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.gomotive.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://gomotive.com/legal/api-terms-of-service/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/motive-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/motive-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/motive-finops.yml
- type: BlogIndex
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/motive-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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