Overall, this is easily the best ELD app that used, but it needs one QoL change for us drivers that I believe would be super helpful. Instead of the usual 1 warning that we get 30 mins before our hours are up, there needs to be a better implementation where the last 30 mins give warnings every 5 mins intervals. Sometimes as a driver you are exhausted and aren’t as attentive due to being up for hours and hours and just as you’re about to make your final stretch, you forget to put on personal conveyance to go to a safe haven or pull over sooner and instead, get a violation. Something as big as a violation just needs a better warning system so that way we do what we gotta do as drivers to avoid it. Please take this into consideration. Thank you!

I would like to see someone from the Samsara team demonstrate to the entire country on how to properly operate a semi truck during a month long 280+ hour event that is broadcast online 24 hours per day for the entire month. This person can’t be someone who already drives a truck for a living. It should be someone from the Samsara office. Areas to be demonstrated should include maintaining a safe speed at all times in all traffic, weather, and road conditions, staying compliant within the hours of service, demonstrate focused driving at all times, and show everyone in the country how to be fuel friendly, most notably in mountain states and scorching hot weather conditions. Experts in the transportation industry such as those who work behind desks in the San Francisco Bay Area should have no problems demonstrating their expert truck driving skills to the entire world. Set the example and show everyone how it should be done! Wait, what am I smoking. These people all hail from a region of the country where there are NUMEROUS traffic accidents and fatalities DAILY from inattentive car drivers. These are the same types of people that you’re paying money every month for electronic log software who want to tell you how to safely operate a truck. TFOH.

This app is a dumpster fire for PC. Kicks you to on duty randomly by asking" Do you want to stay in PC or go Off Duty?" while you are driving! If you select stay in PC it will reward you with one minute of on duty driving then put you back on PC. Dumbest thing I have ever seen. Been using it for five years at three different companies and it did it at all three. The ONLY TIME it should change is if driver selects or driver runs up against company restricted time or distance. Another product designed by people in an office, driving a desk that should never be allowed to make products used by an actually useful, productive human being. Actually sent an email complaint to Samsara about this but they apparently have no concern to fix this. Again dumbest feature I have ever seen and it is obviously programmed in, not a bug. The Samsara people emailed me and asked if I would update my review. PC has not been fixed. Also I would like to know why the app just logs you out occasionally without asking the driver if they want to IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SHIFT WHILE DRIVING! If the app was a physical object seperate from my phone I would get great satisfaction from smashing it with a hammer. BTW the logo for the company is an Owl? Dumbest birds of all according to wildlife biologists. Fits the bill.

The app will switch my duty status to On Duty at random times. It will also sometimes not switch to Driving because it is not properly connected to the truck. Those will occasionally be fixed by logging out of the app weekly, but it happened to me this week after my weekly log out. This app doesn’t work well with split breaks. I spent 7 hours sleeper berth yesterday, 2 & a half hours at a shipper, those don’t work together, I then left to go to the consignee and had about 6 hours that I would be early to the consignee, which doesn’t allow overnight parking so I went to the company lot for 5 & a half hours. I had about 3 and a half hours left on my 11 & 14 hour clocks, 2 hours 15 minutes into delivery and it again wanted to replace my short break with the current one which wasn’t long enough and would have put me into violation. I had to edit 1 minute on duty into both times I was docked. Allow the driver to select one break for their short and long breaks in a split break so that the driver can avoid any problems with violations on their clocks.