Companies that use Samsara

Discount Tire Michels DFA Dairy Brands Domino's Blue Origin Martin Marietta Pilot Company ADS Towne UGI Utilities Clean Harbors

We did some sleuthing into our own data to find companies that are using Samara.

Discount Tire

Tire & Wheel Retail · Scottsdale, AZ · Mobile service vans

Discount Tire is the country's biggest independent tire and wheel retailer, with more than 1,200 stores. Most people know them as the place you go when you need new tires, but they also send service vans out to do the work where customers are.

Those mobile service vans are where Samsara comes in. Discount Tire uses it as the eyes on every van in the fleet, watching for mechanical problems before they turn into a van stuck on the side of the road with a customer waiting.

Here's how it works. Samsara streams data from each van back to a central team. That team watches for warning signs, things like an engine acting up or a brake issue starting to show, and flags them before the van breaks down on the way to a job. When something does go wrong, they can troubleshoot the van remotely over the phone instead of pulling it out of service.

That same data feeds into the maintenance side of the operation. Pre-trip and post-trip inspections, monthly check-ins, and preventive maintenance schedules all get tracked together, so a van's full service history lives in one place. When a repair is needed, it gets approved, scheduled, and logged without paper shuffling.

The payoff is simple. Vans spend more time on the road serving customers and less time waiting on a fix. For a company whose whole mobile business depends on showing up when they said they would, that's the difference between a happy customer and a missed appointment.

Michels Corporation

Infrastructure Construction · Brownsville, WI · Heavy equipment fleet

Michels Corporation is a family-owned construction company that builds big infrastructure projects, the kind of work that involves laying pipelines, building power lines, and putting up wind farms. They have about 8,000 people in the field and run 18,000 pieces of heavy equipment across the country.

That much equipment is the story. Michels uses Samsara to keep track of where every excavator, bulldozer, and truck is, what it's doing, and what it costs to run.

The data flows in real time from sensors on each machine. A piece of equipment gets requested for a job, dispatched to the site, tracked while it's working, and then routed to maintenance when something needs fixing. Samsara is the thread that runs through all of it.

The interesting part is what happens with the data after it's collected. Michels pipes Samsara's telematics into the same systems they use to bill jobs and manage projects. That means when a backhoe sits idle at a site for three days, the project manager sees it. When an engine racks up hours faster than expected, maintenance costs get charged to the right job.

For a company running thousands of machines on hundreds of sites at once, that visibility is the difference between guessing and knowing. It turns equipment from a black box of expenses into something they can plan around.

DFA Dairy Brands

Dairy Manufacturing · Kansas City, MO · Fresh dairy delivery fleet

DFA Dairy Brands is the consumer side of Dairy Farmers of America, a cooperative owned by more than 12,500 family farmers. They make and deliver fresh milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, and frozen treats under brands like Kemps, with their trucks running daily routes from dairy plants to grocery stores.

Samsara is the platform DFA runs to keep all those trucks safe and accountable. The most interesting piece is how they use the in-cab safety cameras: a Director of Supply Chain Optimization owns the rollout and reviews footage to spot risky driving before it leads to an accident.

What makes this work different from a typical fleet is that DFA's drivers are often union members. The team configures camera alerts and review workflows in line with the labor agreements, so the rules around what gets reviewed and how are spelled out clearly. It's a balance between safety oversight and respecting what was negotiated at the table.

When something does happen, the process is well-defined. A safety team member is sent to the scene of any reportable accident to help the driver gather pictures, the police report, and other documentation. All of it gets filed in one place, along with repair bills and insurance correspondence, so the company has a complete record of what happened and why.

The same Samsara data feeds the daily work too. Local supervisors at plants in places like Le Mars and Minneapolis pull metrics out of it to coach drivers, plan routes, and track compliance with the federal hours-of-service rules that govern commercial driving. From the executive level down to the loading dock, the platform is the shared source of truth.

Domino's

Restaurants · Ann Arbor, MI · Supply chain delivery fleet

Domino's is the world's largest pizza company, with more than 21,000 stores. Most people think of the delivery driver bringing a pizza to their door, but behind that is a supply chain moving dough, cheese, sauce, and other ingredients from Domino's own commissaries to those stores every day.

Samsara plugs into that supply chain. Domino's runs a Transportation Management System, the software that plans and tracks all those ingredient deliveries, and Samsara is one of the platforms it talks to.

What makes this setup notable is the company it keeps. The Transportation Management System sits in the middle of a stack that includes SAP for finance and operations, PeopleSoft for HR, Manhattan for warehouse work, and Fourkites for shipment visibility. Samsara is the piece that connects the trucks themselves, feeding location, driving hours, and vehicle data back to the rest of the systems.

For Domino's, that connection means a regional manager can see whether a load of mozzarella is on track to reach a store before the morning rush. It also means the trucking side of the business runs on the same data backbone as the digital ordering and store operations the brand is known for. Domino's has built its reputation on being a tech company that happens to sell pizza, and the trucks moving the ingredients are part of that same picture.

Blue Origin

Aerospace · Kent, WA · Ground support equipment fleet

Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos's space company, building rockets and lunar landers in a push to get more people living and working off Earth. Their main campus on the Florida Space Coast is where rockets get put together, tested, and launched.

Rockets get the headlines, but launching one takes a small army of trucks and ground equipment. Blue Origin uses Samsara to keep that fleet ready, compliant, and where it needs to be on launch day.

This is ground support equipment, things like fuel trucks, transporters, and specialized vehicles that move rocket parts around the campus and out to the launch pad. Each one needs current registration, current inspections, and a clean record before it can roll near a rocket. Samsara is one of the systems Blue Origin uses to track all of that, alongside utilization data showing which assets are getting used and which are sitting idle.

The stakes make the work different from a typical fleet job. A delivery truck that misses an inspection causes a paperwork problem. A piece of ground support equipment that misses one can hold up a launch, draw a finding from the Range authorities who oversee the launch site, or both. Audit-ready records aren't a nice-to-have, they're the cost of staying in business.

The same data also informs bigger decisions. Blue Origin uses fleet utilization numbers to plan multi-year capital budgets, deciding what to buy, what to retire, and what to keep. For a company spending heavily to scale up its launch cadence, knowing exactly what each piece of rolling stock is doing helps make sure the dollars go to the assets that move the mission forward.

Martin Marietta

Building Materials · Raleigh, NC · Heavy equipment & haul fleet

Martin Marietta is one of the country's biggest suppliers of building materials. They mine and ship the rock, sand, gravel, cement, and concrete that go into roads, bridges, and buildings across 28 states.

Samsara is what keeps tabs on the trucks and heavy equipment hauling all that material around. The interesting piece is how Martin Marietta turns the raw telematics into something the business can actually act on.

A central team manages the Samsara dashboard, watches device health across every division, and ships replacement units when something goes down. They handle user access, troubleshoot problems, and write the procedures that local plants follow.

The data doesn't stop there. The team feeds it into Tableau dashboards that plant managers and operations leaders use to track how their fleets are running. Things like equipment usage, maintenance trends, and anything else that helps them make better decisions get visualized in one place.

For a company with hundreds of plants and thousands of pieces of equipment, that kind of central oversight matters. It means a problem at one quarry in Texas gets the same attention as a problem at one in Nova Scotia, and the people running each site get the same view of what's happening with their fleet.

Pilot Company

Travel Centers & Fuel · Knoxville, TN · Tanker fleet

Pilot Company is the parent of Pilot Flying J, the truck stop and travel center chain you've probably seen along every interstate. Beyond the gas pumps and the food court, they run one of the largest tanker fleets in the country, hauling fuel from terminals to retail locations and to oil and gas operators in the field.

That's where Samsara comes in. Pilot uses it to track every tanker truck on the road, and the most interesting use of the data is forensic. When a load of fuel goes missing or the inventory at a station doesn't match the paperwork, a team of fuel transaction specialists pulls up Samsara's truck location data to figure out exactly what happened.

The work is detective work. A specialist sees a variance, say a station that received 300 gallons less than the bill of lading shows, and starts digging. They pair Samsara's geo-tracking with internal dispatch software, terminal records, and driver paperwork to reconstruct the trip. Where did the truck stop? How long was it there? Did the numbers add up?

Most of the time the answer is a paperwork mistake or a missed validation. Sometimes the data points to something more serious, like potential theft by a driver, carrier, or terminal operator. In those cases, the same Samsara records become the evidence that supports going after the missing fuel.

This is a different kind of telematics use case from most. It's not about safer driving or smoother dispatch, it's about closing the books at the end of the month with confidence that every gallon Pilot bought, hauled, or sold can be accounted for. For a fuel business where margins are thin and volumes are huge, that visibility translates directly into recovered dollars.

Advanced Drainage Systems

Pipe Manufacturing · Hilliard, OH · Long-haul driver fleet

Advanced Drainage Systems, or ADS, is one of those companies you've probably never heard of but whose products are everywhere. They're the largest maker of plastic drainage pipe in the country. The pipe under highways, the chambers under parking lots, the systems that carry rainwater away from your neighborhood. They're also one of North America's biggest plastic recyclers, turning more than half a billion pounds of old shampoo and detergent bottles into pipe every year.

Pipe is heavy, bulky, and doesn't fit on a normal truck, so ADS runs its own fleet of long-haul drivers to move it from their plants to their customers. Samsara is the system on board every one of those trucks.

Drivers spend about 25 days a month on the road, and they live inside Samsara while they're out there. They use it to log their hours behind the wheel, manage the safety alerts the system sends them, and stay in touch with the freight manager back at headquarters in Hilliard, Ohio. New hires get trained on the platform before they ever take a load out.

The interesting piece is how ADS has formalized the in-cab cameras. Every driver and every contracted driver has to sign a document called the Consent to Collection of In-Cab System Data before they can get behind the wheel. The cameras aren't an optional perk or a quiet add-on, they're part of the job. ADS has decided that having a recorded view of what happens in the cab is worth making it a hiring requirement.

For a company moving long, heavy loads through every weather condition the country can throw at a driver, that bet on visibility makes sense. The footage protects drivers when something goes wrong on the road and gives ADS the evidence to back them up.

Towne

Hospitality Services · Conshohocken, PA · Shuttle & valet fleet

Towne is a hospitality services company that runs the operations behind valet parking and airport shuttles at hotels, hospitals, and resorts across the country. If you've been picked up by a hotel shuttle at LAX or had your car parked by a valet at a big-city hospital, there's a good chance Towne's team was on the other end.

Samsara is the platform Towne uses to keep its shuttle vans and buses running safely and on schedule. The interesting twist is that the people watching the data aren't just fleet managers, they're also hospitality managers responsible for the guest experience.

Take a hotel shuttle service like the one at the Westin LAX. The manager there builds routes, schedules drivers, and supervises pickups, but they also use Samsara to track maintenance, keep registrations current, and stay compliant with the federal rules for commercial passenger vehicles. The same person making sure a guest gets to their flight on time is making sure the bus that takes them passes its daily inspection.

Behind the scenes, a central safety team at Towne's headquarters runs the broader program. They watch the Samsara safety inbox for alerts, coach drivers based on what the cameras and sensors flag, and lead investigations when an incident happens. They also use the data to spot patterns, like a route that's producing more hard-braking events than it should, and turn that into training for drivers.

For Towne, the platform ties two things together that don't usually live in the same conversation. Hospitality cares about smooth, on-time service. Safety cares about regulations and risk. Samsara gives both teams the same view of what's happening on the road, which keeps shuttles moving and guests smiling without anyone having to choose between the two.

UGI Utilities

Natural Gas Utility · King of Prussia, PA · Field service fleet

UGI Utilities is a natural gas company that delivers heat and energy to about 750,000 homes and businesses across most of Pennsylvania and a slice of Maryland. They run the pipes, the meters, and the trucks that show up when something needs fixing.

Samsara plays a specific role at UGI: it's one of the tools the central dispatch team uses to direct field crews when something urgent happens. Think of a gas leak, a 911 call, or a power outage where utility workers need to be sent out fast.

Dispatchers sit in front of a wall of systems. They're tracking customer service tickets, monitoring calls coming in from emergency centers, and watching weather and outage data shift through the day. Samsara fits in by showing them where every UGI truck is and what their crews are doing right now. When a high-priority order comes in, the dispatcher can see who's closest and route them there.

That visibility matters most during emergencies. A gas odor call, for example, can't wait. Dispatchers use Samsara alongside their other tools to redirect a nearby crew, hold off less urgent appointments, and let the customer who's getting bumped know what's happening. The same data also helps them coordinate with police and first responders when the situation calls for it.

For UGI, the platform is one piece of a bigger response system rather than the whole show. But it's the piece that closes the gap between a dispatcher in the office and a truck out in the field, which is the difference between knowing where help is and actually getting it where it needs to go.

Clean Harbors

Environmental Services · Norwell, MA · Hazardous Waste, Spill Response, Industrial Cleaning

Clean Harbors is an environmental services company that handles the dirty work other companies can't or won't do. Think hazardous waste cleanup, emergency spill response, tank cleaning, and industrial decontamination across North America. They have about 13,000 employees and a massive fleet of trucks.

The most interesting thing about how Clean Harbors uses Samsara is that it's the system of record for keeping their drivers legal on the road. Drivers operating vacuum trucks, hydrovac units, and high-pressure water blasters are required to log their hours of service through Samsara, which serves as the company's electronic logging device. Federal rules limit how long a commercial driver can be behind the wheel, and Samsara is what proves Clean Harbors is following those rules.

This matters more for Clean Harbors than for a typical trucking company because of the kind of work the drivers are doing. A turnaround driver might be on a project that requires 100% travel for months at a time, working 8-to-13-hour shifts on rotating schedules like 18 days on, 3 days off. Without a reliable digital log, tracking compliance across that kind of schedule would be nearly impossible.