The same GPS miles drivers automatically log for quarterly IFTA fuel-tax reporting now place them on a platform-wide leaderboard, earn XP and levels, and feed a shared Drivers Lounge — with every driver anonymous by default.
LOS ANGELES, CA, July 16, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ — FleetCollect, a trucking-compliance software platform, now ranks owner-operators and small-fleet drivers on a nationwide leaderboard built from the same GPS miles they track for IFTA fuel-tax reporting. The new Community section inside the FleetCollect IFTA app for iPhone and Android converts the mileage a driver already logs for quarterly filings under the International Fuel Tax Agreement — due April 30, July 31, October 31, and January 31 — into a live leaderboard, experience points and levels, and a shared social feed connecting FleetCollect drivers across all 50 states.
Long-haul trucking is isolating work, and the software built for it has historically made that worse: compliance apps are solitary utilities a driver opens alone, files with, and closes. Trucking community apps do exist, but they typically live somewhere else — standalone forums, Discord servers, or crowdsourced maps bolted onto navigation — and ask drivers to do extra work to participate. FleetCollect took the opposite approach: the community is built directly on the work drivers already do. The miles a driver tracks for IFTA are the miles that rank them. There is nothing extra to log.
A leaderboard built from fuel-tax miles. The Community leaderboard ranks drivers by total GPS miles driven — the same miles the app records for IFTA — across two windows, This Week and This Month. It shows the top 50 drivers platform-wide plus each driver’s own rank even when they sit outside it, with gold, silver, and bronze medals for the top three and rank-change arrows showing movement against the prior period. Boards reset every Monday and on the first of each month, anchored to a live countdown. At each rollover the top 10 finishers are recorded, and first-place, second-place, third-place, and Top 10 badges accumulate permanently on a driver’s profile.
XP and levels tied to real work. Drivers earn experience points for actual operating activity: completing a trip (10 XP, plus 5 XP per 100 miles), logging a fuel stop (3 XP), opening the app each day (5 XP), setting a username (a one-time 25 XP), and posting in the feed (1 XP, capped at 10 per day). Each level costs 50 XP multiplied by the level number, and every avatar carries a colored ring that changes tier as the driver levels up.
The Drivers Lounge. For drivers asking whether there is a trucking app where they can actually connect with other drivers, the Drivers Lounge is a global feed open to every FleetCollect driver: 280-character text posts, images, video, and GIFs, with likes and threaded replies in a familiar X-style format. A separate read-only Activity feed carries the platform’s automatic announcements.
Automatic milestone announcements. The app posts on a driver’s behalf when they complete a trip (“just completed a 1,200-mile run”), cross a lifetime-mileage milestone at 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, or 100,000 miles, level up, or move into the weekly Top 10 — so the community reflects what is happening on the road even while drivers are driving.
Private by default. Every driver appears simply as “Driver #” followed by an ID number until they decide otherwise. Real names are never displayed across companies; usernames (3–20 characters) and profile photos are strictly opt-in. Profiles show lifetime miles and trips, a day-streak counter, level and XP, a grid of leaderboard finishes, and a public post-and-reply history.
“Every community app for truckers asks them to stop working and go somewhere else — a forum, a Discord server, a map,” said Herman Armstrong, founder of FleetCollect. “We built ours on the work itself. The miles you track for IFTA are the miles that rank you. If you drove this week, you’re already on the board.”
“Nobody wakes up excited about fuel-tax paperwork,” Armstrong added. “But every driver wants to know where they stack up against drivers in the other 49 states.”
The Community is available now to all drivers inside the FleetCollect IFTA app on iPhone and Android. The app provides automatic state-by-state GPS mileage tracking and automatic quarterly IFTA report generation from $14 per month. Details at https://fleetcollect.net/community.
About FleetCollect — FleetCollect is a trucking compliance software platform operated by Solve For Solutions LLC of Carson, California, founded by Herman Armstrong. FleetCollect provides IFTA fuel tax tracking, DOT Driver Qualification File (DQF) management under 49 CFR Part 391, and a nationwide DOT drug and alcohol testing consortium for owner-operators and small fleets across the United States. Learn more at fleetcollect.net.
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