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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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37.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Fleet ManagementTruckingLogisticsGPS TrackingHours of ServiceELDIFTADashcamDispatchComplianceDriver Management

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 37.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 11.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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
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APIs 1

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

Motive Fleet API

Core REST API providing access to driver management, vehicle tracking, Hours of Service logs, IFTA trip reports, inspection reports, dashcam events, dispatch workflows, geofenci...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Motive Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Motive Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Motive Context

30 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Motive Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Motive Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Resources

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
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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: '0.19'
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
- 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
  - 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