Fleet management

Fleet telematics combines GPS tracking, onboard vehicle diagnostics, and wireless connectivity to give fleet managers real-time visibility and control across their entire operation.

Samsara’s industry-leading Fleet Telematics solution enables organizations to track every vehicle, streamline operations, and control fuel costs. Samsara offers a complete suite of telematics solutions, including GPS Fleet Tracking, Routing & Dispatch, Commercial Navigation, Fleet Maintenance, ELD Compliance, FirstNet, Fuel & Energy Management, Electric Vehicle Management, OEM integrations, and more. All of this runs on the Samsara Connected Operations Platform, centralizing fleet data for every team across a fleet operation, from dispatch and safety to maintenance and compliance. Some capabilities Samsara Fleet Telematics offers include:

• Optimize fleet operations: Samsara unlocks real-time visibility across GPS tracking, vehicle diagnostics, and routing and navigation, improving fleet efficiency and customer service, 

• Workforce productivity: Empower your team to work more efficiently with personalized mobile workflows for drivers, admins, and technicians. 

• Risk management: Minimize risk and improve the driver experience with insights into vehicle security, ELD compliance, and fleet safety. 

• Energy efficiency: Improve fuel efficiency, streamline electrification, and reduce operational costs with real-time idling alerts, insights into driver performance, and tools to build your EV strategy.

Real-time visibility across your truck fleet means you can monitor the location and status of your fleet, adapt to changing conditions, and keep drivers on schedule with full visibility and extended tracking. This enables you to make faster decisions and respond to issues before they affect your fleet operations. 

Samsara’s GPS Fleet Tracking solution leverages best-in-class GPS technology to enable organizations to track their entire fleet, including vehicles, trailers, equipment, and more. Samsara’s solution is made up of proprietary easy to deploy hardware and modern easy to implement cloud software. Samsara’s GPS collects location data every second, providing fleets with continuous, real-time visibility via the Samsara dashboard. Some capabilities that Samsara GPS Fleet Tracking offers include:

• Samsara GPS Fleet Tracking provides a live helicopter view of every vehicle, trailer, and piece of equipment in one dashboard. Samsara also provides smart map overlays, live location sharing, and geofences to enable fleets to track the location of their fleet.

• Real-time alerts notify managers of speeding, harsh braking, idling, and unauthorized vehicle use as they happen. 

• Samsara surfaces engine diagnostics, fault codes, and idle time data alongside driver behavior, giving dispatch, safety, and operations teams a complete operational picture from a single view. 

• Samsara offers modern routing capabilities for route planning, commercial navigation, and dispatch to enable fleets to finish routes with fewer miles and vehicles.

• Samsara uses real-time visibility to track assets like trailers and heavy equipment, including asset monitoring, cargo temperature sensing, and remote refrigeration control for trailer fleets. This enables fleets to reduce asset theft, improve utilization, and maximize profitability.

Telematics systems help reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs by providing real-time vehicle data, preventive maintenance insights, and automated workflows. By continuously monitoring critical vehicle data such as engine diagnostics, fault codes, and vehicle usage metrics, telematics can detect issues early and alert fleet managers before they turn into costly breakdowns. 

Samsara Connected Maintenance is an AI-powered, enterprise-grade Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) built on real-time operations data that helps save time, increase asset utilization, and reduce maintenance costs. Most fleets manage maintenance across disconnected tools such as spreadsheets and third-party invoicing workflows, creating gaps that lead to missed repairs, repeat shop visits, and high administrative overhead. Samsara’s Connected Maintenance eliminates these gaps by providing accurate, contextual, real‑time maintenance data in one platform, combining fault code intelligence, DVIRs, and operations data so every team member has full visibility into maintenance needs. With Samsara Connected Maintenance, fleets can:

• Maximize uptime and utilization by preventing avoidable breakdowns and keeping assets generating revenue instead of sitting in the shop.

• Lower and better control maintenance costs so they can hit financial targets and redirect budget to higher-priority investments.

• Increase wrench time and shop productivity by minimizing non-core computer work and shortening repair cycles.

• Eliminate administrative burden around invoices and warranty, freeing teams to focus on higher‑value work.

The ELD mandate requires commercial motor vehicle drivers to use electronic logging devices to record their Hours of Service (HOS). ELD compliance requires a device that automatically records driver hours, connects to the vehicle's engine, reliably transfers log data to DOT officers, and is FMCSA-registered and independently certified. 

Samsara's ELD compliance solution is both FMCSA-registered and third-party certified for the U.S. and Canada. Samsara offers automatic rulesets updated in real time based on GPS location, so drivers are always on the correct ruleset without manual changes. AI-powered geofencing handles yard moves and unassigned HOS events automatically. A built-in 4G LTE WiFi hotspot keeps the Driver App connected even in rural areas, and 350+ turnkey integrations connect compliance data with existing fleet systems. This enables fleets to get a full view of compliance status without manual data entry or paper-based reporting.

A telematics solution can help reduce fleet fuel costs and idling by providing real-time insights into driver behavior and vehicle performance. It tracks data such as speeding, idling, harsh braking, and rapid acceleration, which are major contributors to wasted fuel. By identifying these patterns, fleet managers can coach drivers to adopt more efficient driving habits.

Samsara offers an advanced fuel management system, enabling fleets to cut fuel costs, fuel waste, and fuel fraud. Samsara offers significant benefits, such as:

• Buy fuel at the best price: Use fuel price overlays to coach drivers towards cost-saving fueling choices, such as preferred stations or in-yard fueling.

• Minimize fuel waste: Improve fuel efficiency with weather-aware idling insights, driver alerts, and driver efficiency reporting. 

• Fleet benchmarks for fuel usage: Identify opportunities for improvement across key efficiency metrics by comparing against customizable peer groups. Use tags to create benchmarks for different groups within your organization.

• Tackle theft and fraud: Prevent unauthorized fuel use with real-time theft alerts, vehicle proximity and fuel level rise detection, AI-powered receipt capture, and fuel card integrations.

• Ensure compliance: Streamline IFTA compliance with Samsara's automated reporting. By reducing manual work, speeding up processes, and ensuring accuracy, you can save time and maximize tax savings with confidence.

For example, Estes leveraged Samsara to improve efficiency and reduce idling. Prior to Samsara, tracking and addressing idle events was a manual, time-consuming process that often led to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for cost savings. By adopting Samsara Vehicle Telematics, Estes is able to monitor idle time in real-time, identify patterns, and take corrective action from the very first day of implementation. This allowed Estes to coach their drivers more effectively, reducing unnecessary idling and, consequently, saving over $3 million in fuel costs.

Telematics platforms help fleets manage electric vehicles (EV) alongside gas or diesel assets by providing real-time visibility into range, charging, and battery performance. They consolidate EV and ICE (internal combustion engine) data into a single dashboard so you can optimize operations without switching systems.

For fleets looking to transition to electric vehicles, Samsara offers a complete solution to strategically accelerate electrification. 

• Charge Control helps combat EV range anxiety and manage charging processes at scale to consistently ensure job readiness. Monitor charging status in real-time and create custom charging profiles to be alerted to any charging violations.

• Inform EV routing and dispatch workflows with smarter route planning based on estimated range and proximity of nearby charging stations to assign the most optimal routes.. 

• EV Suitability tools analyze actual route and duty-cycle data to identify the strongest candidates for EV replacement in a current fleet. 

• The Fuel & Energy Hub monitors performance across your mixed fuel fleet of ICE, EV, and hybrid vehicles. Visualize driver and vehicle performance while gathering actionable insights into fuel economy, cost, and consumption.

For example, Alto Experience used Samsara to manage their mixed fuel fleet, reducing costs and improving efficiency. Samsara's Fuel and Energy Hub provides insights into vehicle efficiency, health, and costs. This data helps Alto avoid unnecessary spend by scheduling EV charging at off-peak times and understand how factors like traffic impact efficiency. As a result, Alto saved 66% when charging EVs (compared to ICE vehicles) and reduced their total fuel and energy costs by 53%.

Routing and dispatch software is used to plan, optimize, and manage vehicle routes and driver assignments, particularly for last-mile deliveries and field service tasks. It helps reduce fuel costs and improve on-time delivery by providing tools for automated and optimized routes, driver dispatch, and real-time tracking of deliveries or service tasks. It aims to create efficient routes tailored to your operation's constraints, improving the last-mile delivery process.

Samsara’s routing and navigation solution is an end-to-end routing software that enables fleets to reduce costs and improve safety, compliance, and customer satisfaction. Samsara’s Route Planning, Route Execution, and Commercial Navigation functionality makes it possible for fleets to unify route planning, dispatch software, navigation, and telematics for deeper insights, proactive decision-making, and a competitive edge. Some key benefits include:

• Optimized routes: Cut fuel consumption, minimize vehicle wear, maximize fleet utilization, and improve worker productivity with optimized routes tailored to your organization's operational priorities.

• Increased customer satisfaction: Deliver exceptional customer service with on-time deliveries and build trust with live order tracking if exceptions occur. Keep drivers and dispatch in sync with consistent ground truth, ETAs, and navigation paths. You can also track performance over time to refine routing, train drivers, and improve operating procedures.

• Reduced distractions: Combine navigation and Hours of Service into a single, distraction-free interface; no more app-switching. Samsara navigation accounts for vehicle restrictions like height, weight, and hazmat. Drivers have peace of mind that they are on safe and compliant routes, all within the Samsara Driver App—the highest-rated driver app by professional drivers on Android and iOS.

• Enhanced route efficiency: Leverage Samsara’s Commercial Navigation for turn-by-turn directions that account for vehicle-specific restrictions like height, weight, hazardous materials, and road limitations. This helps avoid fines, low bridge strikes, and unsafe roads. Commercial Navigation is integrated directly into the Samsara Driver App, appearing alongside Hours of Service data, so drivers get a distraction-free, single-screen experience.

• Improved reliability and ease of use: Samsara's modern UI simplifies training and boosts efficiency, ensuring your operation never misses a beat. All backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA and the highest-rated Driver App by professional drivers.

For example, Mohawk Industries leveraged Samsara to close the gap in planned versus actual routes, fully digitizing their routing process and improving route accuracy. As a result, Mohawk reduced miles driven by 4.2 million, saving $7.75 million across their entire fleet