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

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Improve route performance, fleet efficiency, and customer service with Samsara’s best-in-class GPS tracking and vehicle diagnostics.

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What is fleet telematics?

Fleet telematics technology is a fleet management system designed to be the single command center for physical operations, enabling organizations to streamline every aspect of their fleet, field, and back-office operations.

With fleet telematics, you can:

  • Unleash employee productivity with intuitive and personalized workflows for your drivers, admins, and technicians.

  • Minimize risk by delivering rich safety, compliance, maintenance, and security insights you can act on immediately to protect your fleet.

  • Maximize energy efficiency with our advanced fuel, energy, and emissions reporting and alerting.

How does a fleet telematics solution help improve fleet management?

With a fleet telematics solution like Samsara help improve the safety, compliance, and efficiency of your fleet. With GPS tracking for vehicles and assets, ELD compliance, and more, Samsara is a comprehensive telematics system that helps streamline fleet management.

What are the benefits of a fleet telematics system?

There are many benefits to a fleet telematics system, including:

  • Minimize fleet risk: Protect your people, assets, and your bottom line with actionable safety, compliance, maintenance, and security insights.

  • Increase worker productivity: Empower your teams with intuitive, personalized mobile app workflows for drivers, admins, and technicians.

  • Maximize energy efficiency: Future-proof your operations with advanced fuel analytics, energy management, and emissions planning.

Is fleet telematics the same as GPS tracking?

Fleet telematics software enables organizations to track the location of their fleet using real-time data, including to-the-second GPS data. With real-time GPS location tracking, fleets gain best-in-class visibility to improve route performance, fleet efficiency, and customer service.

Some key features of real-time GPS tracking include:

  • Geofencing: Automatically get notified, via text or email when your assets arrive and leave specific locations, or when abnormal activity occurs.

  • Helicopter view: Eliminate guesswork with an instant aerial view of your assets. Easily aid route navigation and help authorities track stolen property.

  • Smart map overlays: Monitor weather and traffic or locate the nearest charging station. Quickly adapt to changing conditions so your drivers can stay on schedule.

  • Live location sharing: Deliver best-in-class customer service with live location links to equip your customers with accurate ETAs.

How does fleet telematics help ensure ELD compliance?

Amidst evolving regulations, fleet telematics systems are critical to helping fleet maintain compliance. Using fleet telematics, you gain real-time visibility into driver status, making it easy for drivers to log HOS and preventing ELD mandate violations. In addition, automated ELD workflows for drivers and robust reporting for admins across HOS, DVIR, and IFTA enable fleets to sail through audits with ease.

How does fleet telematics software streamline preventative maintenance?

By leveraging real-time vehicle diagnostics, fleets are able to improve preventative maintenance and reduce downtime. Proactively spot issues such as failing batteries and engine fault codes through over-the-air vehicle diagnostics. Avoid road breakdowns and quickly identify vehicles in need of service to protect vehicle health and extend vehicle lifetime.

Fleet telematics systems like Samsara offer intuitive mobile workflows and to help improve vehicle maintenance. Samsara Vehicle Telematics help you prevent incidents before they happen with visibility into key driver and vehicle safety indicators like vehicle location, speed, harsh braking, and fault codes, while our Driver App helps you stay on top of potential defects with DVIRs. 

In addition, Samsara’s offers a robust ecosystem of integrations, making it easy to connect your data to existing systems to ensure reporting accuracy, maximize administrative efficiency, and make smarter, informed decisions.

How does fleet telematics technology improve fuel management?

With fleet telematics, you gain real-time insights that enable you to reduce fuel consumption and improve energy efficiency. Samsara Vehicle Telematics helps you:

  • Motivate drivers to idle less and save more with personalized scoring and performance insights.

  • Cut down on fuel waste, energy use, and emissions with actionable alerts and advanced reporting.

  • As EV and emissions mandates become more prevalent, Samsara’s automated EV assessments and customizable suitability criteria help you identify a path forward to vehicle electrification.

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