Customers achieve significant return on investment (ROI) from leveraging Samsara fuel management, driving improvements in fuel usage, fuel costs, fuel fraud, idling, fuel waste, and cost-savings. Here are a few examples:
Mohawk Industries: Reduced idling by 12% saving $600,000 in fuel costs, reduced miles driven by 4.2M saving $7.75M through improved routing, completed a one-time routing audit saving $650,000 in component pay and driver overpayments, removed 200 trailers saving $500,000 annually, cut communication time by 93%, and reduced administrative work by 75% across a fleet running over one million miles every week.
Massey Services: Massey had limited visibility into vehicle activity and had challenges with excessive idling—especially in the hot Southeast climate where air conditioning is necessary for driver safety. With Samsara, Massey transformed their fuel management, using idling alerts to manage fuel usage and the Wex integration to centralize fuel reporting. Visibility due to AI Dash Cams also helped to reduce unauthorized vehicle use.Altogether, Samsara enabled Massey to save over 250,000 gallons of fuel in one year, translating to $1.3 million in fuel savings.
Gordon Food Service: Reduced idling from as high as 17% to under 2%, saved 700,000 gallons of fuel translating to $2.5M in total fuel spend savings, and eliminated days of potential trailer downtime across 10,500 vehicles and trailers making 17,000 daily deliveries to 113,000 customers.
ITF Group: Improved fuel efficiency from 6 MPG to up to 7.5 MPG, reduced idle time to 29%, achieved a 25% improvement in routing optimization, saved $4M in fuel costs, and generated $8.4M in combined fuel and insurance savings across 2,000 trucks and trailers serving customers in food and beverage, retail, and e-commerce.
Estes: Saved $3M in estimated fuel costs and achieved a 40% increase in ETA predictability using the Samsara Platform across a fleet of 10,400 tractors and 40,000+ trailers for the fourth largest LTL carrier in the United States.
Summit Materials: Saved $1.8M in fuel costs per year and decreased preventable safety incidents by 50% using Samsara Fuel Reports to track fuel usage in real time and reduce idle time across 400 sites, 4,000 vehicles, and 12 companies.
Liberty Energy: Saved $10M annually across their entire operation including fuel efficiency improvements across 3,200 heavy-duty trucks, 6,200 tracked assets, and 3,500 drivers using Samsara to gain complete visibility into their oilfield service operations.
R.E. Garrison Trucking: Saved $730,000 in fuel costs year over year, lowered preventable accidents by 30%, and reduced workers compensation claims by 83% across a fleet of 800 tractors and 1,500 refrigerated trailers hauling food products across the Southeastern and Midwestern United States.
Michigan State University: Reduced idling by 71% saving $60,000 annually, achieved a 30% increase in hours between PM cycles, and protected $1M+ in assets across 5,000 acres and 16 satellite locations.
City of El Paso: Achieved a 24% decrease in idling saving approximately $100,000 annually in fuel costs, reduced an estimated 680,000 pounds of CO2 emissions per year, reduced mobile usage events by 80%, reduced accidents by 29%, and saved $145,000 in accident-related costs across their environmental services department managing waste collection for 800,000+ residents.
City of Fort Lauderdale: Reduced idling by 20%, saved approximately $70,500 in fuel over just six months, and reduced vehicle downtime by 28% across 1,700 vehicles and 11 city departments.
Hope Gas: 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.
Ferrellgas: Improved driver efficiency scores by 33% using idling reports, saved 10% on fuel in the first year, and consolidated five separate communication channels into one using the Samsara Driver App across a fleet of 4,000 vehicles delivering propane across all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
UniGroup: Reduced idling by 5% as part of a newly launched efficiency program and cut fuel purchase data processing time by 95% using Samsara's open API across a fleet of 3,500 vehicles and 4,700 drivers.
Kreilkamp Trucking: Saved 187,000+ gallons of fuel compared to the annual industry average, reduced tardy deliveries by 15%, decreased preventable incidents by 60%, and decreased driver turnover by 20% in one year using AI Dash Cams, proactive driver coaching, and idling reports across a fleet of 300+ drivers, 375+ vehicles, and 1,030+ trailers.
Crafty: Achieved a 4% improvement in fuel usage in just three months and reached the top 10% for fuel efficiency compared to peer organizations while improving Safety Scores by 5% and achieving a 33% year-over-year reduction in auto claims across 40 markets.
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%, reduced fleet-wide CO2 emissions by 10%, increased their alternative fuel fleet by 20% using Samsara's Electrification Report, and saved over $800,000 in annual auto claims across 500+ vehicles at 50+ locations.
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.
Alterman: Saved 10% in fuel costs using the Samsara and Coast integration to achieve total fuel management across 400+ vehicles and 350+ drivers at 5 locations. Fleet Manager Christian Duarte stated, "With Samsara and Coast, we can be confident that our fuel management and costs are all aligned. Coast handles fuel spend, and Samsara ties in telematics. It's total fuel management."
All Aboard America: Used API integrations to discover their actual operating costs across 30M miles driven annually, increased revenue by 30% through amended pricing, reduced administrative workload by 20%, and saved $1.6M annually across 6 divisions and 1,000+ buses and drivers.
Certarus: Saved $500,000 in maintenance costs, saved 8,500 hours from digitized billing, and contributed to $100M+ in new contracted revenue by using Equipment Monitoring and Vehicle Gateways to track asset health and optimize delivery operations across compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen delivery at 19 locations.
Maxim Crane Works: Saved approximately $13M in 2024, about $1M per month, through a predictive maintenance program that reduced unplanned downtime and unnecessary fuel consumption, reduced harsh driving events by 94%, speeding by 87%, and increased billing for excess equipment usage by 27% year over year across 60+ locations.
DeSilva Gates Construction: Leverage Samsara Asset Tracking and Samsara Connected Workflows to save $2.34M annually by preventing equipment delays caused by paperwork inefficiencies and eliminated unnecessary vehicle movement and idle time.
City of Sacramento: Saved $300,000 annually in fuel costs, reduced fuel consumption by 6%, and saved 100+ hours in administrative work using Samsara Fleet Telematics and the Fleet Electrification Report across a fleet of 2,600 vehicles including 120+ EVs serving 528,000+ residents.
City of Boston: Achieved a 36% increase in electric miles driven, saved $86,000 in estimated fuel costs, and reduced carbon emissions by 513,000 pounds using Samsara's Fuel and Energy Report across 400 vehicles managed by their Public Works Department serving 700,000+ residents.
Werner Enterprises: Reduced harsh braking by 20% and harsh turns by 50% across a fleet driving three million miles every day, with improved driver behavior directly reducing the fuel waste associated with aggressive driving across 8,000 vehicles and 30,000 trailers.
Veritiv: Achieved a 32% reduction in emissions in 3 years using Samsara reports to track and reduce total miles driven and idle time across a fleet of 500+ trucks and 60+ U.S. distribution facilities as part of an ambitious goal to cut emissions in half by 2030.
Sobeys: Saved an estimated 4,600 gallons of diesel and 469 metric tons of carbon emissions in just four months using Smart Trailers and Utilization Reporting to optimize trailer deployment and avoid unnecessary vehicle purchases across 16,000+ stores and millions of cases shipped.
ConGlobal: Used Samsara reports to inform fleet rightsizing and electrification decisions, successfully transitioning one location to a 100% electric vehicle (EV) hostler-driven intermodal yard with 35 EVs in operation and 12 to 15 more planned.
