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Zonar’s big idea: make the driver get out and look
A wooden prototype became a fleet-management business by making vehicle inspections harder to fudge. Now Zonar wants to run the rest of the school-bus day, too.
How a $35,000 Family Bet Became a 285-Shop Oil-Change Machine
Banks passed. His grandfather borrowed against the family home. A decade later, Justin Strickland’s stay-in-your-car service model processes more than 1.7 million oil changes a year - and offers a sharp lesson in scaling a boring business without making the customer wait.
Fleetio
Fleetio is a Birmingham, Alabama-based SaaS company that makes cloud and mobile software for managing fleets of vehicles, equipment, parts and drivers. Founded in 2011 by Tony Summerville, its platform helps organizations track maintenance and service history, run digital inspections, manage fuel and parts, automate work orders and connect telematics data so they spend less time wrestling with spreadsheets and more time on their core operations. Thousands of customers across more than 80 countries use Fleetio, which reached unicorn status with a $1.5B valuation after a $450M+ Series D in March 2025 and the acquisition of maintenance-authorization platform Auto Integrate.