Strivie is an all-in-one transportation management system (TMS) for US freight carriers. It combines dispatch, live GPS tracking, driver payroll and settlements, safety and FMCSA compliance, recruiting, maintenance, IFTA fuel tax reporting and broker billing in a single platform, with a companion mobile app for drivers.

Carriers running roughly 5 to 100 trucks — fleets that have outgrown spreadsheets but do not want enterprise software. Strivie is built for for-hire interstate carriers; each customer runs on their own single-tenant instance.

Does Strivie handle IFTA fuel tax reporting?

Yes. Strivie builds the quarterly IFTA return automatically from GPS miles per jurisdiction and fuel-card gallons matched to each truck, so the return is assembled from data the fleet already produces rather than entered by hand.

Does Strivie work with my ELD?

Yes. Strivie integrates with every major ELD and GPS provider and shows all trucks on one live map regardless of which hardware each one runs.

How does Strivie handle driver settlements?

Settlements are drafted from the week's delivered loads. Fuel purchases are matched to the truck and verified against GPS, deductions, advances, escrow and per-driver pay percentages are applied automatically, and the result pays out by direct deposit and syncs to QuickBooks.

Can I check a carrier's FMCSA safety record for free?

Yes. Strivie publishes a free USDOT lookup that shows the public FMCSA record a broker sees — inspections, violations, clean-inspection rate and driver and vehicle out-of-service rates against the national average. No account is required.

March 3, 2026Build Log

The Night Strivie Was Born

It started the way most great ideas start: with frustration, caffeine, and a whiteboard that had seen better days.

Picture this. It's 11 PM. A dispatcher — let's call him The Founder, because that's what he became — is sitting in front of four different browser tabs, two spreadsheets, a phone that won't stop buzzing, and a TMS that looks like it was designed by someone who has never seen a truck in real life.

A driver calls in. "Where's my settlement?" Good question. The answer is somewhere between the payroll spreadsheet, the factoring portal, and a prayer.

The Whiteboard of Pain

That night, The Founder grabbed a marker and started writing on the office whiteboard. Not a plan. Not a roadmap. Just a list. Every single thing that sucked about running a trucking company with existing software.

The list filled the entire board. Then he grabbed a second board.

"Why does every trucking app feel like it was built by people who hate truckers?"

Dispatch doesn't talk to payroll. Payroll doesn't talk to compliance. Compliance doesn't talk to anyone. Every piece of information lives in a different silo, and every silo is on fire.

The Strivie dashboard — what came out of that whiteboard — What eventually came out of that whiteboard. The Strivie dashboard — born from frustration.

The Question That Changed Everything

At 2 AM, with the whiteboard covered and the coffee cold, the question finally came:

"What if one platform did all of it?"

Not a plugin. Not an integration. Not "syncs with" something else. One platform. Dispatch, payroll, safety, compliance, recruiting, maintenance, fleet management, communications, reporting — all in one place, all talking to each other, all updated in real time.

And not just any platform. One that actually looks good. One that dispatchers don't dread opening. One that drivers can use without calling the office for help.

First Lines of Code

By 3 AM, the whiteboard photos were taken and the first lines of code were written. No investors. No business plan. No pitch deck. Just a dispatcher who was tired of using bad software and decided to build better software.

The name? Strivie. Because building something great requires striving for it every single day. (Also because every other domain name was taken.)

Strivie dispatch board — The dispatch board that replaced the whiteboard. Every load visible. Every driver accounted for.

The Promise

That night, one promise was made: Strivie will never ship something that we wouldn't use ourselves. If it's annoying, we fix it. If it's confusing, we simplify it. If it's slow, we make it fast. No excuses, no "that's just how it works."

The trucking industry moves 72% of America's freight. It deserves software that doesn't feel like it was built in 2004.

Strivie was born on March 3rd, 2026. And the trucking world is about to notice.

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