FleetWatcher and the Future of Efficient, Sustainable Roadwork Operations

See how FleetWatcher’s digital load tracking for road construction is helping contractors cut costs, reduce carbon, and boost efficiency.
Sept. 16, 2025

Key Highlights

  • Digital load tracking enhances fleet visibility, accountability, and operational efficiency in road construction projects.
  • Automated systems replace manual processes, reducing over-trucking, lowering costs, and decreasing carbon emissions.
  • Case studies reveal substantial savings, including a $3 million annual reduction in trucking expenses through cycle optimization.
  • Technology helps address labor and driver shortages by enabling companies to do more with fewer resources.
  • FleetWatcher’s solutions are redefining sustainability, efficiency, and accountability in the construction fleet industry.

In this QuickChat, Gavin Jenkins, senior managing editor of Roads&Bridges, speaks with Adam Harshman, president of FleetWatcher, about how digital load tracking for road construction is transforming fleet operations. The discussion explores how contractors, DOTs, and asphalt firms are adopting innovative technology to eliminate inefficiencies and strengthen profitability.

Harshman highlights how the FleetWatcher materials management solution provides contractors with real-time fleet visibility and accountability, helping to replace outdated spreadsheets and manual processes with automated systems. By identifying and reducing over-trucking, contractors can reduce trucking costs and carbon emissions, while simultaneously boosting production. Harshman shares powerful case studies — like a contractor cutting idle trucks by 20% and saving over $3 million in a single year — demonstrating how automated trucking cycle optimization directly impacts the bottom line.

Jenkins and Harshman also touch on the role of asphalt paving efficiency technology in meeting today’s labor and driver shortages, giving companies the tools to do more with less.

Watch the full conversation to learn how FleetWatcher is redefining efficiency, sustainability, and accountability in roadwork fleets.

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