Carrier TMS that integrate with Samsara

About Samsara

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the largest connected-operations platform serving North American trucking — passing roughly 1.2M connected devices and ~$1.3B trailing-twelve-month revenue by 2025. The product is a unified hardware + cloud platform for fleet ELD compliance, GPS, dashcams, equipment monitoring, and driver workflows. For carrier-TMS buyers, Samsara is the telematics backbone most likely to be sitting in your trucks today, which means TMS-side integration depth matters more than the existence of "an integration."

Why this integration matters for carriers

A real Samsara ↔ TMS integration moves three workflows from manual to automatic: HOS visibility (the dispatcher sees available drive hours when assigning a load), auto-status from location (arrived shipper / loaded / arrived consignee / empty triggered by geofences instead of dispatcher data entry), and document capture (BOL/POD photos uploaded from the in-cab tablet land in the right load record automatically). A weak integration — or worse, "integrated" via Zapier or CSV — undoes most of the operational ROI Samsara is supposed to deliver. Demo this specifically: ask the TMS to show a real load moving through arrival, loading, and POD capture using a Samsara device, and see how many manual touches the dispatcher does.

The integration matrix

Each cell below was hand-verified against either the TMS vendor's integrations page, Samsara's own marketplace/KB, or both. Native means a documented integration article exists on Samsara's KB or a vendor's first-party integration listing. Listed means the TMS vendor mentions Samsara in marketing but we couldn't find depth documentation. Unverified means we don't have evidence either direction — we don't claim "supported" without it.

TMS	Score	Samsara integration	Source / note
Truckbase	96/100	Native	Truckbase integrations page — Samsara explicitly listed; 30+ ELDs total
AscendTMS	92/100	Unverified	AscendTMS lists Motive, Trucker Tools, FourKites — Samsara not explicitly confirmed
Rose Rocket	91/100	Listed	Rose Rocket help center — 100+ ELDs claimed; Samsara likely included but not directly cited
Alvys	90/100	Native	Samsara KB · Alvys integration — Documented integration article on Samsara KB
McLeod LoadMaster	88/100	Native	Samsara · McLeod marketplace — Listed on Samsara Marketplace
Trimble TMW.Suite	87/100	Native	Samsara KB · TMW Suite integration — Documented integration article on Samsara KB
Tailwind TMS	85/100	Native	Samsara KB · Tailwind integration — First-party documented integration
Axon Software	84/100	Native	Samsara KB · Axon integration — Documented; Axon also lists Samsara on its ELD page
PCS TMS	82/100	Native	Samsara · PCS marketplace — Listed on Samsara Marketplace
ITS Dispatch	78/100	Unverified	ITS publishes a limited ELD partner roster; Samsara not confirmed (Geotab dropped 2025 per reviewers)

What to pressure-test in a demo

• Two-way data flow. Does location, HOS, and ignition-status flow from the tractor to the TMS, AND do dispatch updates flow back to the in-cab tablet? Many "integrations" are one-direction only.
• Auto-status events. Walk through a real load: arrived shipper, loaded, arrived consignee, empty. How many dispatcher clicks happen? Native integrations should drive most of this from geofences without manual intervention.
• Document workflow. Do BOL/POD photos captured on the Samsara tablet land in the TMS's load record automatically, or does the driver still need to use the TMS's own driver app for document capture?
• HOS-aware assignment. When the dispatcher is assigning a load, does the board show the driver's remaining drive hours pulled live from Samsara, or only what was manually entered?
• Failure modes. If the Samsara API has an outage, does the TMS degrade gracefully (last-known location, manual override) or does dispatch stop?

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Sources

Each "Native" cell above links to its primary source (Samsara KB integration article or vendor marketplace listing). Items flagged "Unverified" remain in the verification queue.