Roadworthy HQ is a DOT compliance workspace for US motor carriers running 1–10 trucks. It keeps your driver qualification files, drug & alcohol program, maintenance records, and HOS supporting documents the way the FMCSA expects — with retention enforced by the database, not by your memory. Built and operated by Elite Tech Global LLC.
§01 · Why this exists
The carrier with one to ten trucks is the most underserved buyer in DOT compliance. Spreadsheets and binders work until something breaks at audit. The enterprise platforms — J.J. Keller, Foley, Fleetworthy, Samsara — were built for fleets of fifty and price like it: sales calls, contracts, per-driver line items, an implementation team. The kitchen-table operator can't use either, so they put it off until the new-entrant letter shows up.
Recordkeeping is what the FMCSA actually grades. Roughly one in five new-entrant audits ends in a Conditional rating or revocation, and the leading cause is paperwork — not unsafe driving. The regulations exist; the documents exist; the deadlines exist. What's missing is a place to keep them that doesn't require a compliance manager to operate.
The architectural commitment is plain: the database enforces retention because memory doesn't scale. Every document carries its CFR retention period as a column. A two-step purge warns first and removes second. Legal hold pauses the clock. An append-only event log records the actions an auditor will ask about. None of that depends on a sticky note or a Slack reminder.
§02 · A small operator, by design
Roadworthy HQ is operated by Elite Tech Global LLC. When you email support, the reply comes from the person who wrote the code — not a tier-one queue, not a vendor manager. Most questions don't need that, because the in-app checklist and CFR citations are the source of truth. The ones that do, get answered properly.
The company is small on purpose, and intends to stay that way. New features ship when a small carrier asks for them or the CFR requires them — usually both.
§03 · What we don't do
These are the boundaries — what the software does, and what stays with you, the auditor, or the consortium.
We don't review your operation for a fee or appear at your audit. The software keeps the records; you make the calls.
No implementation fee, no kickoff call. Sign up, follow the in-app checklist, ship records the same week.
Business-hours replies, faster on Fleet+. We answer real questions; we don't sell calls.
We're not a Consortium / Third-Party Administrator and we're not a Consumer Reporting Agency. We track your queries and selections; the consortium and the lab do their jobs.
If you want a hand-held service, hire a consultant. If you want software priced and shaped like software, stay.
§04 · Roadmap
The driver portal is live — drivers invited to a carrier's workspace see a read-only view of their own status and documents. Past that, the items most likely to interest customers are driver-initiated renewals (drivers upload their own medical certificate, acknowledge their annual review), MVR ordering inside the workspace, and OCR for documents you scan from a phone. We don't commit to dates; we ship them when they're right and tell subscribers in the changelog.