Buy fuel at the best price
Guide and coach drivers on cost-saving fueling strategies.
Minimize waste
Improve fuel-efficient driver behavior with advanced reports, coaching, and alerts.
Tackle theft and fraud
Identify sudden drops in fuel and unauthorized purchases in real-time.
Ensure compliance
Meet IFTA requirements and ensure accurate fuel tax reporting.
Optimize your fuel spend
Our fleet fuel management system's end-to-end fuel visibility cuts costs, waste, and fraud.
How to lower fuel costs with Samsara
Samsara helps you reduce fuel costs by giving you coaching tools, route optimization, and fuel reporting all in one platform.
What is fuel monitoring?
Fuel monitoring is the crucial process within modern fleet management that focuses on tracking, analyzing, and managing fuel consumption and associated activities in real-time. Leveraging technology like vehicle telematics, it provides detailed visibility with actionable insights. Leading platforms, such as Samsara, help fleet managers improve fuel tracking, identify inefficiencies, reduce fuel costs, prevent theft, and ultimately improve overall fuel efficiency and operational profitability.
How do you monitor fleet fuel consumption?
Tracking fuel effectively requires an integrated fuel management solution combining fleet fuel management software with vehicle telematics hardware. It involves automatically collecting detailed data directly from vehicles and fuel transactions, then using software to analyze that data, identify exceptions or opportunities, and provide actionable insights and alerts.
What does a fleet fuel management system do?
A fleet fuel management system provides the comprehensive capabilities needed to actively manage fuel consumption and related activities across fleet operations, which is essential for optimizing fleet maintenance and improving fuel economy. Comprehensive solutions, such as Samsara's Connected Operations Platform, leverage telematics and analytics to deliver real-time data, automate analysis and reporting, and identify and help prevent issues like excessive idling, fuel theft, and fraud. With Samsara, you can also enable strategic actions such as driver coaching to improve driver behavior, fuel purchasing optimization, and integrating fuel data into user-friendly fleet workflows to support data-driven decision-making and streamline overall fleet operations.
What are the benefits of using a fleet fuel management system?
A fleet fuel management system is key to optimizing fleet operations, delivering significant fuel cost savings and improving operational efficiency through detailed, real-time fuel visibility. It helps fleets eliminate unproductive idling, prevent theft and fraud, optimize purchasing, facilitate driver coaching, and automate compliance (like IFTA reporting), ultimately saving time and minimizing risk.
How can a fleet fuel management system reduce costs?
Top fleet fuel management systems use fuel management software and hardware (like telematics devices) to provide real-time data and visibility into fuel usage, including exactly how, when, and where fuel is being used across all your vehicles. This precise data and fuel reporting gives you the control needed to identify inefficiencies and reduce consumption, directly impacting your bottom line and improving overall fleet efficiency.