Customers achieve significant return on investment (ROI) from leveraging Samsara routing and dispatch, driving improvements in efficiency and cost-savings. Here are a few examples:
Estes: Achieved a 40% increase in ETA predictability and saved $3M in estimated fuel costs across a fleet of 10,400 tractors and 40,000+ trailers for the fourth largest LTL carrier in the United States and the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America.
Mohawk Industries: Achieved a 40% increase in ETA predictability, reduced miles driven by 4.2M saving $7.75M, completed a one-time routing audit saving $650,000 in overpayments, cut communication time by 93%, reduced administrative work by 75%, removed 200 trailers saving $500,000 annually, and reduced idling by 12% saving $600,000 in fuel costs across a fleet running over one million miles every week.
MAVIN: Improved customer visibility by 100%, lowered equipment breakdowns by 25% in one year, saved $15,000 in insurance costs, and cut two leased trailers saving $16,000 per year across their four-division wood products operation spanning 48 states.
Kreilkamp Trucking: Reduced tardy deliveries by 15%, saved 187,000+ gallons of fuel compared to the annual industry average, reduced preventable incidents by 60%, and decreased driver turnover by 20% in one year across a fleet of 300+ drivers, 375+ vehicles, and 1,030+ trailers.
TP Trucking & Logistics: Leveraged Samsara Commercial Navigation to avoid 180 commercial-restricted roads, including 10 low bridges and 82 weight-limited roads, across more than 160,000 miles. As a result, TP Trucking cut out-of-route miles and delays caused by drivers getting lost, ultimately reducing service failures by 90%.
ITF Group: Achieved a 25% improvement in routing optimization, improved fuel efficiency from 6 MPG to 7.5 MPG saving $4M in fuel costs, reduced idle time to 29%, reduced trailer downtime by 25%, improved trailer utilization by 20%, and generated $8.4M in combined fuel and insurance savings across 2,000 trucks and trailers.
VLS Environmental Solutions: Reduced overall mileage by 8%, reduced total fuel consumption by 6% saving over $350,000 annually, extended vehicle operational life by 15%, saved over $800,000 in annual auto claims, reduced fleet-wide CO2 emissions by 10%, and increased their alternative fuel fleet by 20% across 500+ vehicles at 50+ locations.
NovaXpress: Adopted Samsara Commercial Navigation to design optimized routes tailored to each vehicle's restrictions, paired with Hours of Service (HOS) in a single in-cab app, keeping drivers safe and on schedule across a mixed fleet. By accounting for vehicle-specific restrictions, the team has avoided $10-12K per incident in bridge-strike repairs while reducing driver stress on the road and improving service delivery times.
Athens-Clarke County: Achieved a 55% increase in fuel efficiency, eliminated 12,000 pieces of paper monthly, and improved the safety and efficiency of their services across a mixed fleet of 40 vehicles serving 130,000 residents across 117 square miles.
Crafty: Achieved a 4% improvement in fuel usage in just three months, reached the top 10% for fuel efficiency compared to peer organizations, improved Safety Scores by 5%, and achieved a 33% year-over-year reduction in auto claims across 40 markets.
City of New Orleans: Routed emergency vehicles to calls more efficiently across a fleet responding to nearly 70,000 emergency calls every year, reduced collision risk by 81%, decreased mobile phone use by 46%, reduced speeding by 37%, and gave commanders real-time asset visibility for faster resource allocation across 41 city departments.
Monroe County: Improved outage response time by 15% and saved thousands on vehicle maintenance across nearly 1,700 islands that make up the Florida Keys using real-time GPS tracking to locate and dispatch the nearest available resources during emergencies.
CoxHealth: Integrated Samsara GPS tracking through their open API with their computer-aided dispatch system across 106 vehicles including 55 ambulances, reduced maintenance invoice processing time by 94%, and gave dispatch teams real-time vehicle location data that improved emergency resource coordination across five counties in the Missouri Ozarks.
Hope Gas: Replaced a system where field supervisors had no GPS capabilities, achieved a 20% decrease in excessive idling, reduced catastrophic vehicle failures by an estimated 12%, and recovered a stolen side-by-side valued at $40,000 across natural gas operations serving 125,000 customers in West Virginia.
City of Syracuse: Used Samsara's Esri integration to create a publicly accessible real-time map showing snow plow service status, reducing citizen calls by 30% across a fleet of 1,000 vehicles including 150 snow removal vehicles. COO Corey Dunham stated, "Not only do community members appreciate the transparency Samsara provides, but it's also saved staff time spent responding to calls and made things overall more efficient."
Cash-Wa Distributing: Decreased customer credits paid for improper temperature claims by 30% and saved $60,000 annually on cellular data plans using GPS tracking alongside Environmental Monitors across a distribution network of 20,000+ items across 11 states.
Certarus: Saved $500,000 in maintenance costs, saved 8,500 hours from digitized billing, and contributed to $100M+ in new contracted revenue by providing detailed chain-of-custody reports for customers' compliance needs across 19 locations.
Buckeye Power Sales: Generated an estimated $300,000 in additional annual revenue by redeploying underutilized generators to billable jobs, saved 250+ technician hours annually, recovered an excavator from a non-paying customer collecting $12,000 in outstanding billing, and intervened via geofence alert when a rental unit was moved 90 minutes from its contracted location.
MBTA: Improved bus predictability and reliability by 10% across 177 routes and 1,050 buses carrying 450,000+ passengers in Greater Boston using Samsara Vehicle Gateways and open API. Head of Projects Siobhan Cunningham stated, "If we see that a bus did miss a stop, we can look up who was driving that bus and figure out exactly what happened."
All Aboard America: Increased revenue by 30% through amended pricing based on actual operating cost data, reduced administrative workload by 20%, and saved $1.6M annually across 6 divisions and 1,000+ buses and drivers driving 30M miles annually.
Caddo Parish Public Schools: Replaced a GPS system that updated at 15-minute intervals with Samsara real-time GPS tracking, reduced parent inquiry calls by 35%, saved $420,000 by recovering three stolen school buses, achieved a 100% decrease in major incidents, and now operate $2M under their previous annual budget.
Houston ISD: Integrated Samsara with EZ Routing to create a unified transportation dashboard that tracks planned versus actual route performance in real time. This integration allowed the district to move from ad hoc, anecdotal knowledge about bus timeliness to a quantified, data-driven view of service delivery that could be used to make informed decisions about route design and resourcing. The district is now completing 94% of scheduled routes and achieving 92-95% on-time arrival performance, a dramatic improvement.
DHL: Consolidated seven separate point solutions into one platform, reduced harsh driving incidents by 65%, cut accidents by 26%, reduced accident-related costs by 49%, decreased driver turnover by 50%, and improved their CSA score by 10% across a logistics operation serving 220+ countries.
Werner Enterprises: Gained consistent real-time visibility into an 8,000-vehicle fleet driving three million miles every day, achieved a 19-year low in DOT-reportable accidents, reduced accident rates by 22%, decreased harsh braking by 20%, and cut harsh turns by 50%.
Jordan Carriers: Reduced safety events by 50%, decreased drivers needing daily coaching by 93%, cut connected training setup time by 50%, and freed dispatch teams to focus on operational coordination rather than safety administration across a fleet of 800 vehicles and 800 drivers.
LAZ Parking: Unified siloed data systems across 1,500+ vehicles in 29 states and Canada, eliminated 40+ hours of data entry each week, and won a record-breaking $370M contract.
Joyride Logistics: Drove 13M miles incident-free, improved driver retention by 28% in one year, and gave customers real-time visibility into delivery performance using Samsara as their single source of truth via open API.
Quality Custom Distribution: Replaced a manual ETA tracking process with real-time GPS visibility across 25 locations serving major brands like Starbucks, Raising Cane's, and Chipotle, eliminated drowsy driving crashes entirely within six months, and achieved a five-year low CSA score.
Ferrellgas: Consolidated five separate communication channels into one using the Samsara Driver App, improved driver efficiency scores by 33%, and saved 10% on fuel in the first year across a fleet of 4,000 vehicles delivering propane across all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
