Samsara Driver 4+

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!

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.

This app works great for me to manage my fault routine. Dispatch can put in my deliveries and pickups on routes. I can submit my proof of delivery, then when I pick up, I can put in the bill of lading and scale ticket and move on to my next destination. I love that it automatically goes into my hours of service clock while I’m driving, so I can manage my breaks and stopping for the evening. The DVIR feature is easy and informative. My only wish was that it could send a notification to dispatch if there was an issue that needed to be resolved, just so I didn’t have to call them to say, hey, I have an issue, can we get it fixed. Overall, great app and I hope it stays that way.