Construction & Vocational Fleets

Your dump trucks are a trucking company.

Dump trucks, mixers, water trucks, lowboys, pickups — running under DOT and FMCSA rules your maintenance software pretends don’t exist. Dockex runs the maintenance and the regulated half. One system.

Last updated June 13, 2026

The 9 PM problem

Nobody told you the iron made you a motor carrier.

  • DUMP #1210,001+ lbs GVWR, used in commerce — needs a USDOT number
  • REYES, J.CDL driver, no §391.51 DQ file on record
  • MIXER #4Annual inspection past due, no record to show
  • AUDITFMCSA asks for DQ files, D&A records, HOS, 2290 — clock starts

You didn’t set out to run a trucking company. The plates say you do.

The wedge

Your maintenance software treats your fleet as iron that breaks.

Fleetio and the rest are good at one thing: tracking the iron. Service intervals, work orders, parts, fault codes. That’s real, and you need it. But open their construction page and read it closely — it never says DOT. Never says CDL, FMCSA, IRP, IFTA, 2290, or DQ file. To a maintenance platform, your dump fleet is a pile of assets that wear out. That framing quietly leaves out the half that gets you fined.

Here’s the thing nobody put on a sales call: a contractor running dump trucks is a regulated motor carrier. The same federal rules that govern an over-the-road carrier govern your yard. Driver qualification files. Drug-and-alcohol testing. Hours of service. Annual inspections. Heavy vehicle use tax. The maintenance software ignores all of it, so you end up running two systems — the software for the iron, and a binder, a spreadsheet, and a tag agency for the part that actually gets audited.

Dockex does both. The maintenance — service-due tracking, work orders, parts, inspections, fault codes from a connected telematics provider — and the regulated half — DOT applicability, DQ files, D&A result tracking, IRP/IFTA, 2290, UCR, FMCSA CSA scores — in one system. Keep what you use for the iron if you want. Dockex runs the regulated half. Or run the whole thing here.

The DOT-applicability trap

One weight line decides whether you’re regulated.

The rules aren’t a judgment call — they’re thresholds, and most contractors are already over them without knowing it.

Most contractors don’t realize they’re motor carriers until an audit asks for paperwork they never built. Two minutes settles it: Am I DOT-regulated? walks your fleet through the thresholds, and the CSA score lookup pulls your safety record straight from FMCSA.

The audit

What FMCSA asks a contractor for.

A new-entrant or compliance review is a checklist. Here’s the list, and where each item lives in Dockex.

Maintenance

The iron, handled.

Service-due tracking by mileage and time, work orders, parts, tires, and warranties. Connect Samsara, Motive, or Geotab and fault codes flow in and open work orders automatically. NHTSA recalls auto-check by VIN. The maintenance side runs nationwide, no Oklahoma required.

  • Service-due by mileage and time
  • Work orders, parts, tires, warranties
  • Fault codes + NHTSA recalls from a connected telematics provider

Pre-Trip Inspection

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Tires & Wheels
Brakes
Lights
Fluid Levels
Submit

Works on any phone · English & Spanish

The regulated half

DQ files, inspections, D&A, CSA.

A §391.51 DQ file per driver with audit-packet export. DOT pre-trip eDVIR from any phone. Drug-and-alcohol result tracking plus the §382.403 annual MIS report — bring your own consortium, Dockex tracks the results. Your seven FMCSA CSA BASIC scores pull daily and alert when one crosses the intervention threshold.

  • Full §391.51 DQ files + audit-packet export
  • D&A result tracking + annual MIS report
  • FMCSA CSA BASIC scores, pulled daily

Export Inspections

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DOT-ready inspection report

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CSV Export

Raw data for analysis

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Bulk Export

All inspections, date range

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Honest scope

Where the lines actually are.

I’d rather tell you exactly what this does than sell you a promise that breaks on your fleet. So, plainly:

Maintenance is by mileage and time. Service intervals run on odometer miles and calendar days. Not engine hours — that’s the metric a lot of vocational shops want, and it’s not how the scheduling works today.

Live GPS and HOS need a connected telematics provider. Connect Samsara or Motive for the live map plus hours of service. Geotab gives you the live GPS map. Dockex isn’t a native GPS or ELD device — it’s the system the device feeds.

2290 and UCR you file in-app, anywhere. Enter the data, pay the fee in-app, Dockex files it for you. That’s nationwide.

IRP and IFTA are tracked nationwide; the done-for-you filing is Oklahoma-only. Everywhere, Dockex tracks your apportioned miles and builds the return. In Oklahoma, we file it for you. Outside Oklahoma, you get the calculation and the paperwork, ready to submit.

Drug-and-alcohol: result tracking and the annual MIS, not your TPA. Dockex tracks every test result and generates your §382.403 MIS report. It is not your consortium or third-party administrator — bring the one you have.

Keep what you use for the iron. Dockex runs the regulated half.

The gap

  • DOT compliance, at allFleetioNot builtDockex
  • Driver qualification (DQ) filesFleetioNot builtDockex
  • Drug & alcohol result trackingFleetioNot builtDockex
  • DOT inspections / eDVIRFleetioNot builtDockex
  • IRP / IFTAFleetioNot builtDockex
  • Form 2290 (HVUT)FleetioNot builtDockex
  • UCR registrationFleetioNot builtDockex
  • FMCSA CSA scoresFleetioNot builtDockex

Fleetio runs the iron. Dockex runs the iron and the audit.

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