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Verizon Connect

Score2.2 out of 10

30 Reviews and Ratings

What is Verizon Connect?

Verizon offers a fleet management platform in Verizon Connect, emphasizing asset tracking and GPS, clear maps and route optimization, and fleet KPI tracking.

In my opinion, scam, worst customer service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my opinion, complete scam of a company and, absolute worst customer service. I feel so sorry for the employees they must get abuse, after trying to cancel my account for a year I still can't and it seems no one even knows how. In my experience, you can't even cancel an account. how do you expect to have a reliable product they just keep adding on more fees even after 3 year contract ends. I cant imagine they stay in business much longer. I suggest, Do not ever be a customer, auto renew contracts.

Cons

  • Customer Service
  • Faulty Devices

Most Important Features

  • Tracking vehicles but, in my experience, it doesn't work

Return on Investment

  • For me, Only negative

Software and Hardware issues... And HORRIBLE customer service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have a total of 9x vehicle cameras/trackers and 3x non-powered assets for my firm from Verizon Connect Reveal.

I have had this service for less than 6 months; the first 1-2 months, everything seemed to function correctly, tracking and camera alerts.

The past 3-4 months have been a complete nightmare. The cameras will go offline constantly - We have had 3rd party techs (sent by Verizon) out multiple times to "fix" them... They just power them down and re-install and reset. This works for 1-2 weeks and then they go back offline.

The trackers, over the past month, will no longer work consistently, some of the vehicles will not provided updates for days to weeks.

The biggest issue I have with all of this is Verizon Connect/Reveals COMPLETE lack of customer service. As soon as these issues started, I reached out... in my experience, it would take weeks to get even a response from the Repair Department.

My "Customer Service Managers" that were assigned (2x of them) have still not responded - in my experience, I have emailed them each 10+ times to date, and literally no response in any way, shape, or form.

My Verizon Business Rep has been the only help; she continues to submit requests to management, escalation requests, customer support, and other departments to get some type of answer. However, many times, when I get responses from this, they are generic and do not fix the issue.

In my experience, I have also never been offered any type of credit/assistance with a service that I pay north of $ 300 a month for and have been able to actually use less than 50%... I am at my wit's end and EXTREMELY disappointed with the service, and the complete lack of support... I realize now I should have done more reading online, seeing a lot of other firms having similar issues.

It looked like a great system; it checked all the boxes for what we needed - But considering it doesn't work over half the time, I feel I am now being forced to figure out how to cancel/terminate my contract and now invest time into finding another system, and having all my vehicles brought back in and re-outfitted.

Pros

  • Simple hardware setup
  • Simple installation
  • Good web interface

Cons

  • Lack of connectivity
  • Lack of hardware updates
  • Lack of any customer support
  • Lack of knowledge of their own system (in my opinion, techs frequently had no idea what was causing the current issues)
  • Inconsistent service

Most Important Features

  • Fleet Maintenance
  • Fleet Tracking
  • Asset Tracking
  • Geofence Alerts
  • Driver Safety Alerts

Return on Investment

  • Negative impact with the amount the system has been down since installation, it has provided little to no consistent feedback on our vehicle and equipment locations.
  • Negative impact with time needed to troubleshoot, schedule with techs and lack of function.
  • Negative impact with the amount we have paid to date with a less than 50% use of the service.
  • Negative impact where we now have to find another service that will work.

Verizon Connect great visualization, difficult to install

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Verizon connect was able to track all equipment with a monitoring system directly connected to the engine. It was very good when the new ELD mandate was started in 2017. It was able to track all equipment through an online interface and made the tracking simple. The app for the drivers helped them track hours and breaks as required by DOT.

Pros

  • Online interface
  • Tracking
  • Ease of app use

Cons

  • Installation of product
  • Implementation of product
  • Training for app

Most Important Features

  • GPS tracing
  • ELD logging
  • easy to use app

Return on Investment

  • It is expensive and has long contracts
  • Great tracking and cannot be removed by driver
  • Cumbersome to install

Alternatives Considered

Motive (previously KeepTruckin)

Buggy Software and extremely poor (worst of any vendor I've used) customer and account support

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Verizon our fleet management provider

Pros

  • GPS tracking

Cons

  • Customer service
  • Account management
  • Product support
  • Product training
  • Product design
  • Software

Most Important Features

  • none

Return on Investment

  • Extremely negative impact and ROI as the time trying to get support kills any product benefit

Verizon Connect with give you piece of mind when your vehicle(s) are on the road.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have Verizon Connect on my vehicle as I like the ability to track it and always know where it is for safety purposes. There are a lot of features and services with the Connect but knowing the exact location is my #1 focus. It also gives a handful of analytics that help the company know about what the vehicle is doing besides obviously knowing where it is.

Pros

  • GPS location.
  • Routes
  • Travel/Distance Reports.

Cons

  • None
  • None
  • None

Most Important Features

  • Location
  • Real Time Stats.
  • Speed

Return on Investment

  • Gives the vehicles a longer life being able to maintain the maintenance.
  • Being able to address any issues that a driver might have.

Other Software Used

Salesforce CMS, NetSuite ERP