Fleet Connect Sues Road Ready and DAVCO Over Trailer Telematics Patents.

Fleet Connect Solutions LLC filed Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. Road Ready, LLC and DAVCO Technology, LLC, No. 2:26-cv-13496 (E.D. Mich.), on September 15, 2026. The case is assigned to Judge Mark Allan Goldsmith and referred to Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Stafford. Plaintiff is represented by Andrew M. Grove of Howard and Howard Attorneys PLLC.

Road Ready, LLC is pleaded as a Clarience Technologies subsidiary headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. DAVCO Technology, LLC is pleaded as the Saline, Michigan manufacturer of Road Ready and Fleetilla telematics hardware, including the master control unit (MCU) with GPS and related sensors.

The complaint asserts ten patents and identifies accused products sold under Road Ready, Fleetilla, and DAVCO brands, including the FL 940, FL 950, FLEX 600, FLEX 603, FL1260, FL1265, ORB9, SmartOne Solar, Road Ready Master Control Unit (MCU), cargo, temperature, door, and warning sensors, the SmartBridge Integrator, and software platforms including FleetFACTZ, Fus1on, LogIQ, and Road Ready fleet systems.

Taken together, the asserted set spans wireless channel sharing and packet generation, MIMO evaluation, trip-status estimation, handheld field-data workflows, vehicle-to-vehicle style communications, and group navigation tracking - technology themes that map onto trailer telematics, GPS tracking, and fleet software.

U.S. Patent 7,058,040 covers allocating shared TDMA time-slot channels between overlapping-frequency media and dynamically adjusting the allotment to hold a desired service level. Asserted claims: at least claim 1. Claim 1 covers a method that computes shared TDMA slots, assigns some to each medium, and dynamically adjusts the allocation during transmission.

U.S. Patent 7,206,837 covers estimating arrival-time bounds for a mobile device in transit and notifying the user. Asserted claims: at least claim 1. Claim 1 covers receiving the device's location and estimating time-of-arrival bounds for a confidence interval from that location and historical travel-time statistics.

U.S. Patent 6,647,270 covers a multi-unit wireless system in which each remote unit stores a unique identifier, uses an RF transceiver and GPS, and processes packet communications keyed to that identifier. Asserted claims: at least claim 1. Claim 1 covers a system of remote units that exchange voice or data packets, each unit having memory for its identifier, a transceiver, a GPS receiver, and a microprocessor that generates and handles the baseband traffic.

U.S. Patent 7,742,388 covers generating wireless packets with training symbols sized for the network protocol. Asserted claims: at least claim 1.

U.S. Patent 7,656,845 covers a base station allocating data channels to a first medium for wireless transmission. Asserted claims: at least claim 1.

U.S. Patent 7,260,153 covers evaluating a MIMO wireless channel with a singular-value-based channel-matrix metric. Asserted claims: at least claim 1.

U.S. Patent 7,593,751 covers managing field-operation data on a handheld device with a field-data program module. Asserted claims: at least claim 6.

U.S. Patent 6,961,586 covers conducting industry-specific field assessments on a handheld device, including remote inventory tracking style workflows. Asserted claims: at least claim 9.

U.S. Patent 8,494,581 covers an apparatus for two-way field communications between a server and handheld devices, including location-tagged field data. Asserted claims: at least claims 21 and 22. Claim 21 covers means for enabling a handheld to identify service-schedule requirements. Claim 22 covers means for synchronizing a handheld service schedule with server inventory data.

U.S. Patent 7,741,968 covers tracking geographic locations of individuals in a group from a portable master device. Asserted claims: at least claim 4.

The complaint alleges direct infringement (and, for some counts, induced and contributory infringement) based on making, using, selling, offering to sell, importing, and testing the Accused Products. It seeks damages of at least a reasonable royalty under 35 U.S.C. section 284, together with interest and costs. A jury is demanded.

Watch answers and any Rule 12 challenges, early claim-construction proposals given the breadth of the ten-patent set, and whether related Fleet Connect filings against other telematics defendants proceed on a similar schedule.