Samsara Inc. (“Samsara”) (NYSE: IOT) today announced that Estes Express Lines, the largest privately held freight carrier in North America, has selected the Samsara Connected Operations™ Cloud. Estes uses Samsara to deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences while improving the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of its operations.
Estes has been delivering responsive freight solutions for nearly a century. Today its customers are served by more than 22,000 employees, 9,600 tractor units, 37,000 trailers and 270 terminals. Real-time data from Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud is helping Estes increase uptime, reduce costs and meet its goal of creating a digital twin of its entire shipment lifecycle. With Samsara, Estes offers its customers a higher level of transparency while eliminating time-consuming paper-based processes for its drivers and operations staff.
“To offer customers a smooth shipping experience, it is important to have the right data. Samsara provides the increased visibility customers want and drivers a better everyday life by spending less time entering data and more time doing the work they love,” said Todd Florence, Estes CIO. “What stood out was Samsara’s commitment to partnerships, great feedback from staff on usability, and the platform’s ability to integrate with our backend systems. We are excited to take our customer and employee experience to a new level with Samsara.”
At Estes, safety is a core value and ingrained in everything it does. Estes plans to use the insights gathered by Samsara AI Dashcams to coach drivers and improve driver safety. The company is also committed to being a good steward of the earth and reducing its carbon footprint. As part of this pursuit, Estes will use Samsara to reduce its reliance on paper, move from preventative to predictive maintenance, and increase fuel economy across its fleet.
The value that Samsara offers stems in large part from its ability to digitize Estes’ assets and combine them into a unified platform. Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud breaks down silos to increase efficiency and can provide organizations with rapid ROI. Samsara has become the system of record for physical operations, helping customers run smarter, safer, and more efficient operations.
“It’s inspiring to see leaders like Estes turning to technology to revolutionize their operations and positively impact both customers and employees,” said Stephen Franchetti, CIO of Samsara. “There is so much value in developing a digital twin of your operations to improve supply chain visibility and customer experience. It is an exciting time for Samsara to work with Estes on their digital transformation.”
