See driver fatigue before the key turns.
VQ-Drive predicts dangerous fatigue 12 to 24 hours before a shift starts. Fleet safety teams get a per-driver, per-shift risk score and a clear recommendation, early enough to change the plan instead of reacting to a crash.
- Driver
- #0417 · Regional
- Shift start
- 04:00 · 11 hr drive plan
- Sleep, last 72 hr
- 14.6 hr
- Fatigue risk
- Elevated 06:30–09:00
Illustrative example. Not real driver data.
The problem
Hours-of-service tells you how long a driver can legally drive. It can't tell you how rested they are.
Two drivers can log the same hours and show up in very different shape. Most fatigue tools today react in the cab, after alertness has already dropped. By then the only option is to pull over.
VQ-Drive moves the decision upstream, to dispatch and scheduling, where a safety director can still swap a load, shift a start time, or plan a break.
Reactive tools
Detect drowsiness during the drive, usually with in-cab hardware. Useful, but late.
VQ-Drive
Forecasts fatigue risk 12 to 24 hours ahead, for each driver and each shift, so the plan changes before the truck rolls.
How it works
Army-developed sleep science, tuned to each driver.
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Learn the driver
VQ-Drive combines a validated, Army-developed model of sleep and alertness with each driver's own sleep and work patterns. It gets sharper every shift.
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Score the shift
Before each shift, it forecasts when fatigue risk will peak and how high it will go, and turns that into a plain risk score.
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Recommend the fix
Safety and dispatch teams get specific options: a later start, a planned break, a different load. Delivered by API into the systems they already use.
Who it's for
Built for the people who carry the liability.
Fleet safety directors
A forward look at fatigue risk across the roster, with a record of what was done about it.
Dispatch and planning
Risk shows up next to the schedule, while there is still time to adjust it.
Drivers
Practical guidance on rest and timing that respects their schedule and their judgment.
We are starting with medium-to-large U.S. trucking and logistics fleets. The same problem shows up in aviation and in the military, and that is where we go next.
Team
Operators and engineers who have lived the problem.
Mike Bynum
Co-founder & CEO
Army Special Operations veteran. Ran the Army xTech prize program and the NavalX Crucible accelerator, and has spent time at weigh stations and with fleet safety teams shaping VQ-Drive.
Russ Harvey
Co-founder & CTO
Early SpaceX engineer and former Boeing senior software engineer. Leads the VQ-Drive platform and engineering team.
Backed by
Arch Grants
Research partners
Saint Louis University · UMKC · University of South Florida
Alumni of
FedTech · NavalX Crucible · T-REX Founders Framework
Pilot with us
We're recruiting a small group of founding pilot fleets.
VQ-Drive is in active development. Founding fleets help shape the product and get preferred pricing when it launches.
- Medium-to-large fleets with a dedicated safety lead
- Willing to run a scoped pilot with a subset of drivers
- Interested in moving fatigue decisions into planning