Your Trucks Clock Out When Your Drivers Do

An after-hours movement alert tells you a company vehicle just left the lot at 2am -- useful, but it's already gone. A MooveTrax curfew schedule means it never could leave in the first place. Set the days and hours per vehicle once, and the kill switch arms and disarms itself every week, automatically.

The after-hours problem alerts can't solve

Most fleet tracking platforms handle unauthorized after-hours use the same way: a geofence or time-window alert fires once the vehicle has already moved. That's genuinely useful for catching a pattern -- but it's detection, not prevention. By the time the notification reaches you, the truck is already off the lot, the side job is already underway, or the weekend joyride has already started.

A policy memo doesn't change that either. Telling drivers "company vehicles stay parked after 9pm" only works as well as everyone's willingness to follow it.

How a scheduled vehicle curfew works

MooveTrax lets you set a Lock and an Unlock schedule per vehicle, each with its own days of the week and time. Turn on "Also Kill switch" on a Lock schedule and the vehicle's immobilizer engages at that time, not just the doors; turn on "Also Unkill" on an Unlock schedule and it's drivable again.

No one has to remember to arm it. It runs on the schedule, every week, until someone changes it.

Different days, different hours

Weekday hours aren't weekend hours, and a single daily on/off time rarely matches how a real operation runs. Because each schedule carries its own day selection, you can stack as many as you need: one unlock time for the weekday shift, a later one for Saturday, a different one again for Sunday -- or none at all on a day the fleet doesn't run.

The same applies to take-home vehicles for trade and service businesses. A service van can be drivable during commute and work hours and automatically immobilized overnight, without taking the vehicle away from the employee or requiring anyone to physically do anything at either end of the day.

Enforced in hardware, not a memo

The kill switch sits on the vehicle's starter circuit. When it's engaged, the starter simply doesn't respond -- there's no workaround from inside the cab, and no dashboard warning light to disable. That's a meaningfully different guarantee than a policy, a time clock, or an alert that assumes someone is watching their phone at 2am.

Lock and kill are intentionally separate controls. A Lock schedule on its own just secures the doors at a set time -- useful by itself for a vehicle that doesn't need the immobilizer, like one parked in a secured lot. Add "Also Kill switch" when you want the starter disabled too.

Who uses vehicle curfews

Safety and override, honestly

The kill switch only ever prevents a parked vehicle from starting -- it's never designed to shut off a vehicle that's already moving, and immobilizing a vehicle in motion is not what this feature does or should be used for. If a truck is still on the road when curfew hits, the driver finishes that trip; the restriction applies the next time someone tries to start it.

A schedule isn't a lockout for you, either. A manager can manually unkill and unlock any vehicle from the app at any time -- a 2am emergency callout is one tap, not a wait until morning. Every lock, unlock, kill, and unkill action is logged, scheduled or manual.

Tell your drivers. If vehicles are taken home, put the curfew hours in your vehicle-use policy in writing, the same way you'd document any other company vehicle rule. It's both good practice and the standard expectation around vehicle-monitoring technology.

Setting it up

1. Open the vehicle in the MooveTrax app
2. Add a Lock schedule -- choose the days and time, and enable "Also Kill switch" if you want the immobilizer to engage too
3. Add an Unlock schedule -- choose the days and time, and enable "Also Unkill"; add a second Unlock schedule if a different day needs different hours
4. Save. The schedule runs automatically from then on

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