Samsara’s product strategy: Innovation through partnership
Samsara’s chief product officer explains the importance of building strong partnerships with customers to lay the groundwork for future solutions.
Samsara’s chief product officer explains the importance of building strong partnerships with customers to lay the groundwork for future solutions.
At Samsara’s user conference in Chicago, the company unveiled its latest tracking tool.
Samsara preps for its community event Beyond to teach leaders how to leverage data to gain insight on their operations and foster success.
This week in Borderlands: Samsara opens new office to focus on expanding cross-border trade; TriumphPay expands payments network to Mexico; China-based auto supplier to build $36M factory in Mexico; and Quantix acquires hazardous waste hauler in Houston.
Fleet telematics provider Motive Technologies filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging Samsara Inc. copied and used its proprietary technology and patents.
Samsara is working to create a system of record specific to physical operations, helping users conceptualize variables like fuel consumption and asset location.
The days between November and January are often dubbed the “happiest time of the year,” but this time span can also be the most dangerous for drivers.
Startup Flipturn really was named for the swimming maneuver. Now it wants to make trucking electrification just as smooth.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Cargo theft down 26% across US during fourth quarter; volumes through Mexican ports increased 11.3% in January; Samsara opens office in Mexico City; and Texas trucker convicted of transporting meth.
The Internet of Things fleet management and software company sold 35 million shares and raised $805 million in its IPO Wednesday.
Samsara’s newest features to its driver app will allow companies to create full-day workflows for fleet drivers.
New Omni-TMSTMA cloud-based platform helps dispatch productivity and load-movement visibility.
Agencies across Tennessee will make Samsara’s technology available to all state, municipal and county fleets.
The IPO is expected to take place after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission completes its review.
At its fast charging stations, EVgo provides several options for light-, medium- and heavy-duty electric commercial fleets.
FMCSA is proposing to revise rules for advanced driver-assist cameras.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Why does innovation stop at the Mexico border?; Arkansas trucking operation expands into Texas; Samsara releases fuel efficiency report; and VW begins exporting Taos from Mexico.
Samsara data shows cloud-based digitization is expanding beyond vehicle telematics and into other operational areas like site security and equipment monitoring.
It’s a great WHAT THE TRUCK?!? special episode for the Enterprise Fleet Summit and Dooner and The Dude host four guests who provide insight on the tech advances being made for fleets of all sizes.
FreightTech companies showcased their cutting-edge technology solutions for common fleet inefficiencies during the Enterprise Fleet Summit.
Samsara’s new Fleet Benchmarks Report compares a fleet’s performance to that of similar fleets across the trucking industry, providing insight into how they are trending relative to peers.
There continue to be concerns about when these new orders will be prepared, as many truck manufacturers continue to deal with semiconductor shortages.
Samsara announced Sue Bostrom as the latest strategic addition to the company’s board of directors.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, a pension bailout bill that would affect Yellow and ABF Freight drivers could be near in Congress. Plus, XPO posts a record quarter and Uber Freight’s growth continues.
Samsara announced Thursday it has surpassed more than $300 million in run-rate subscription revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Jan. 30.
Road Hunter, a popular navigation app for truckers, surveyed its users to find out more about their ELD providers. The app’s founder said there is a huge market for truckers potentially willing to switch ELD providers.
IoT leader Samsara makes it into the FreightTech 25. Ranked No. 16, Samsara has seen rapid innovation, product updates and customer growth.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, truck drivers are driving faster this holiday season. Plus Gatik plans to remove drivers from its vehicles in 2021 and New Year’s resolutions for fleets looking to reduce their risk.
The COVID pandemic drove many Americans into their homes and off the roadways, but trucking fleets have remained on the roads, and their speeds have increased.
Samsara announced the Workflow Builder and App Designer features for the Driver App are available for all Samsara customers starting Tuesday.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash Rand McNally’s ELD are finally back online, plus GM and Nikola alter their tentative agreement and J.B. Hunt acquires a final mile provider.
Samsara is adding three features to its AI dashcam product, including live streaming and mask detection, giving fleets more tools to monitor and improve driver safety in a socially distanced world.
Presenters brought their best to the final demo block of FrightWaves’ free LIVE @HOME conference on Friday afternoon.
Rapid-fire demos give industry movers and shakers an opportunity to showcase their latest innovations — with added flair and no PowerPoints.
COVID is believed to have accelerated the exodus of people from cities, but new data suggests the long-term impact on freight flows is more nuanced.
Navistar has announced five additional telematics and fleet management providers are now integrated with its open-platform OnCommand Connection system.
The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, short seller Hindenburg Research continued to lob allegations of wrongdoing at Nikola […]
Samsara is making street-level critical event data available to city governments to help them make more informed decisions around municipal safety.
Keeping vehicles well maintained can be a complex process, but data transparency is now providing opportunities to increase their lifetime value through improved maintenance.
Fatigue may not play as much of a role in risky driving behaviors, but how long a commercial driver has been driving does, according to new research.
Fleet management solutions provider Samsara looked at 130 million trips since the beginning of 2020 and found truck traffic running at 95% of prepandemic volumes, with more speeding and less hard braking.
“A lot of those small trucking companies, they’ll come back.”
Samsara introduces driver efficiency scores; core capital goods shipments from U.S. drops; Softbank looks to fix U.S. roads.
Fleet management solutions provider also raises $400 million in equity to help sustain operations during coronavirus downturn
Apart from exonerating drivers from wrongful accusations in road accidents, dash cams can also help the fleet management reward top drivers and improve driver behavior.
Idelic and Samsara have forged a partnership where Samsara ELD and camera data will be integrated into Idelic’s driver management platform. Plus, GE cutting 25% of aviation workforce, Amazon exec quits over employee firing, and road funding takes a hit.
New features help customers adapt and streamline operations when electrifying their fleets
Good day, Uber Freight has announced a partnership with Samsara, an electronic logging device (ELD) and fleet management solutions provider, to help carriers with six or more trucks lower their […]
The chance to connect LA-area drayage drivers and containers energizes Sammi Liu, who just helped the startup raise $10.2 million in Series A funding.
There’s a lot to get excited about for what’s coming up at FreightWaves LIVE in Atlanta May 5-6 at the Georgia International Convention Center. Among those things are the live, […]
Samsara has upgraded its fleet management platform to provide Amazon-like visibility and flexibility to deliver its clients a standout customer experience.
The integration will help users share data seamlessly and immediately across both Samsara and McLeod platforms.
By fully recording a view of the road and inside the cab, dash cams provide benefits to drivers, including assistance in court cases and with insurance companies in the event of an accident, as well as overall safety enhancement.
We’ve heard reports that Vista is having trouble getting buyers at its $2 billion price tag for Omnitracs.
The rapidly growing connected sensor and software company doubled its valuation and positioned for future progress ahead of what could be 2019’s “winter for venture capital.”
Samsara’s capital will accelerate new-product innovation and support the company’s customer growth in transportation and logistics.