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White Paper: Tolling in 2021: Emerging Trends for Commercial Fleets

1 May 2021

Understanding new trends in tolling in 2021, and how tolling will evolve into the future, is critical for most commercial fleets, especially those with large regional or national footprints. By learning more about tolling trends and evaluating the cost and benefits of using specific facilities, fleets can optimize operations, creating an overall positive impact on the bottom line.

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What is the carbon footprint of a truck?

9 April 2021

A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases a person or entity creates through daily activities.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), these gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases.

Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere to keep the planet warm, but too much can lead to global warming. These gases can take thousands of years to leave the atmosphere, making it vital to manage our individual carbon footprint.

According to the...

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Samsara launches data report to show fleets how they stack up

6 April 2021

In the commercial transportation sector, industrywide real-time data is a valuable thing.

Historically, it’s been difficult for trucking companies to know how their fleet is performing compared to other companies without access to industry benchmarks or a team of data scientists helping reveal the bigger picture.

Samsara aims to change that with the launch of its Fleet Benchmarks Report, which leverages a broad dataset to help compare a fleet’s performance to that of similar fleets across the...

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Samsara offers municipal leaders free safety-related data

15 September 2020

Municipal leaders looking for insights into critical safety data can now access that information for free through Samsara. The technology company has launched Samsara City Insights and is making the data available at no cost to government leaders.

“As Samsara has grown over the past few years, so has the scale, volume and complexity of our data. Our IoT platform gathers 1.6 trillion sensor data points from over half a million vehicles on a yearly basis (that’s 3 million data points per minute)....

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Prioritize mitigating credit risk, especially during economic uncertainty

24 May 202014 May 2020

Freight brokers and commercial fleets process hundreds if not thousands of shipments daily. In an industry characterized by a huge amount of transactions, risk must consistently be weighed against reward. While most transportation companies diligently assess the profitability of each load before inking the deal, even the most thorough risk management practices cannot mitigate each and every risk.

Many companies fall victim to the ever-present threat of late payments and payment defaults. These...

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