Safe Fleet develops and delivers Smart Safety Solutions™ for school transportation, transit, law enforcement, and waste & recycling fleets. Its portfolio spans automated enforcement, onboard video, digital evidence management, visibility systems, and fleet management software, backed by capabilities in design, manufacturing, sales, installation, and service.
The company’s value proposition is centered on helping fleets protect students, passengers, officers, drivers, and pedestrians while also improving operational performance and reducing risk. Safe Fleet connects onboard hardware, software, and cloud workflows so operators can access video, route, and vehicle data faster for incident response, service verification, safety coaching, and day-to-day decision-making.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Safe Fleet combines video capture, AI-assisted safety monitoring, automated enforcement, digital evidence workflows, mirror-replacement visibility, and route and fleet management into a connected operating environment for fleets. Across its served markets, it supports secure cloud uploads, camera health monitoring, audit trails, evidence review, and back-office access to operational and safety data.
Integration is a meaningful part of the model. Safe Fleet supports Microsoft Dynamics 365-based waste and recycling integration, API and web services connectivity for third-party systems, and telematics-video integration with Geotab, helping customers link field activity with dispatch, billing, service verification, and evidence management processes.
Products and Services
- AI-Powered Stop Arm Violation Enforcement System (SAVES): An AI-powered stop-arm enforcement system for school buses that detects illegal passing events, automates evidence collection, and supports citation workflows to improve student safety around the bus.
- Automated Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE): A transit enforcement solution that uses bus-mounted cameras, ALPR, GPS, and cellular connectivity to detect bus-lane violations and deliver evidence for notice issuance, helping keep routes moving.
- NEXUS™ Video Management: A cloud-based video evidence management platform for school bus and transit fleets that supports cellular and Wi-Fi uploads, camera health checks, secure access, and scalable evidence storage and review.
- Safe Fleet® Duet™ Camera System: A small-footprint dual-lens camera and recorder system designed to extend video coverage to single-occupant fleet vehicles while preserving data ownership and predictable operating costs.
- MirrorLESS Vision System: A camera-based mirror replacement system that gives transit drivers a wide-angle in-cab view around the vehicle to reduce blind spots and improve visibility in day and night conditions.
- FOCUS® In-car Video System: An in-car video platform for law enforcement that improves officer safety and efficiency with advanced video capture, analytics, and integrated evidence workflows, including body-camera upload into the vehicle system.
- FOCUS® X2™ Body Worn Camera: A body-worn camera built for law enforcement with up to 15 hours of continuous recording, configurable automatic triggers, secure wireless uploads, and interoperability with Safe Fleet in-car video systems.
- Safe Fleet FOCUS® Interview Room™: An integrated interview-room recording system that captures and manages audio and video evidence with live streaming, tagging, annotations, audit trails, and tamper-resistant evidence handling.
- FleetLink™: A waste and recycling fleet management suite that brings together route management, service verification, GPS and AVL tracking, safety dashboards, and onboard computing for real-time operational visibility.
- SmartConnect™: A waste and recycling integration offering that connects onboard routing and AVL data with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central tegossuite to unify field operations and back-office workflows.
- Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR): A law enforcement ALPR solution that captures and analyzes license plates in real time to identify vehicles and individuals associated with crimes and support agency-wide alerting.
- Safe Fleet Cloud Courier: A cloud-based evidence sharing capability within the Nexus platform that lets agencies and transportation operators securely share footage with external stakeholders using access controls, audit trails, and expiration settings.
- Safe Fleet Duet AI™: A dual dash camera driver behavior monitoring system with driver monitoring and advanced driver assistance capabilities that detects distracted driving and other critical events for coaching and safety improvement.
- WasteApp™: A waste collection service-verification application that dispatches routes to drivers, confirms pickups, and gives supervisors immediate web-based visibility into stop activity, productivity, and exceptions.
Target Customers
Safe Fleet primarily serves organizations that operate safety-critical vehicle fleets. Its core customer groups include school districts and student transportation providers, public transit agencies and operators, law enforcement and public safety agencies, and municipal or private waste and recycling haulers.
The strongest fit is for fleet operators that need to combine onboard visibility with evidence management and operational oversight. That includes teams focused on incident response, route adherence, service verification, officer accountability, driver coaching, passenger and pedestrian safety, and reducing the cost of complaints, claims, and unsafe events.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Azure Marketplace: Safe Fleet has a verified Microsoft Azure Marketplace presence through its Command Center digital evidence management offering, and its evidence management materials also reference Azure Government-backed storage and CJIS-aligned protections for video workflows.
- Geotab Marketplace: Safe Fleet offers integration with Geotab so fleet operators can view Safe Fleet video inside the Geotab interface, including live video, recorded footage, and video tied to exception rules, and the company is listed in the Geotab Marketplace.
Key People
- John Knox: Chairman & CEO
- Mike Schulte: President
- Bob Shupp: Sr. Vice President, Operations and Supply Chain
- Andrew Schmolka: Sr. Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
- Mike Hagan: Senior VP, Passenger Transportation, Law & Waste
- Bob Parks: Vice President, Human Resources
- Marc Richter: President, Commercial Vehicle
- Mark Griffin: VP of Law Enforcement
- Daniel Pulskamp: Vice President, Transit
- Tom Brodsky: VP, Advanced Technology Group
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Belton, Missouri, United States
- Employees: 1,900
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: Clarience Technologies
- Subsidiaries: 20+ subsidiaries and operating entities, including Specialty Manufacturing, FleetMind Seon Solutions, COBAN Technologies, Elkhart Brass Manufacturing Company, Rear View Safety, and Kerr Industries entities.
- Publicly Listed: No (subsidiary of Clarience Technologies)
