Richmond, Va. – March 6, 2026 – Estes, North America’s largest privately owned freight carrier, has expanded its partnership with Samsara, the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform, to add Equipment Monitoring and Connected Asset Maintenance across its operations.
Building on its initial deployment of Samsara's Video-Based Safety and Telematics solutions in 2023, Estes expanded the partnership in late 2025 to gain real-time visibility across its entire asset ecosystem, from trailers to mission-critical dock equipment. The solution includes the deployment of Asset Gateways across Estes’ fleet of 43,000+ trailers as well as Asset Tags for tracking smaller equipment that’s essential to daily operations, including dollies, electric pallet jacks, and ramps.
With Samsara's Connected Asset Maintenance, Estes gains:
- Real-time diagnostics to detect issues early and reduce unplanned downtime
- Instant work order creation from DVIRs and fault codes to reduce manual entries
- Smart maintenance planning with a unified view of asset history and active issues
- AI-powered invoice processing to reduce manual data entry
- Integrated warranty and inventory management to streamline shop operations
- Consolidated reporting to analyze maintenance spending and identify recurring issues
These new capabilities allow Estes to maximize asset utilization, improve technician efficiency, and ensure equipment reliability across its fleet of tractors, trailers, and support assets.
“The best technology makes difficult jobs easier, and that’s exactly what we’ve found with Samsara,” said Estes’ Chief Information Officer Todd Florence. “Their real-time visibility helps our teams work smarter and remove friction from our operations, which makes shipping more seamless and dependable for our customers.”
“When a leader like Estes decides to bring their entire asset ecosystem onto one platform, it sends an unequivocal message to the market,” said Samsara’s VP of Connected Equipment David Gal. “By connecting everything from high-value dock tools to 43,000 trailers on Samsara, they’re tapping into a network that gets more powerful every day. We’re proud to partner with a team using AI to solve the real-world challenges of moving freight at scale. This is how you lead an entire industry forward.”
A Continued Commitment to Innovation
Estes’ leadership in modernizing fleet operations is widely recognized. The company received Samsara’s Connected Operations Award for Most Innovative Workforce in 2024, and Florence was named one of Samsara’s “100 Fleet Operators to Watch in 2025.”
About Estes
Estes is North America’s largest privately owned freight carrier. As an asset-based transportation provider with a global footprint, Estes combines nearly a century of regional freight shipping expertise with the resources, reach, and reliability of a national carrier. Backed by its more than 300 North American terminals and nearly 7,000 next-day lanes, as well as its fleet of more than 10,500 tractors, Estes is committed to getting America's freight where it needs to go, when it needs to get there. And with its continued investment in leading-edge technology, as well as the support of its more than 24,000 employees, Estes always goes the extra mile to deliver exceptional experiences that keep its customers coming back. The carrier’s comprehensive freight shipping solutions include Less Than Truckload (LTL), Volume LTL and Truckload, Time Critical Guaranteed, Custom Shipping and Logistics, and Final Mile. From short-haul to global freight forwarding—Estes does it all.
About Samsara
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform, which is an open platform that connects the people, devices, and systems of some of the world's most complex operations, allowing them to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. With tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe, Samsara is a proud technology partner to the people who keep our global economy running, including the world's leading organizations across industries in transportation, construction, wholesale and retail trade, field services, logistics, manufacturing, utilities and energy, government, healthcare and education, food and beverage, and others. The company's mission is to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. Samsara is a registered trademark of Samsara Inc. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
