Well, there’s no way that this information will be controversial at all. A new study out of MIT appears to completely crush the claim that EVs simply move pollution from the tailpipe to a smokestack. The analysis tackled the variables usually missing from that argument, like where drivers live, what powers their grid, what they drive, how far they travel, and even the weather. 

Its conclusion isn’t that EVs are perfect. It’s that battery-electric vehicles beat comparable gas cars on lifecycle emissions across the U.S., including where electricity still comes heavily from fossil fuels.

Published in Environmental Research Letters, the MIT-led research first reported by InsideEVs found that EVs cut emissions by 40 to 60 percent in most locations. That’s not cherry-picking statistics either. The researchers considered vehicle and battery manufacturing, fuel and electricity production, regional grids, local temperatures, vehicle types, and how people actually drive. Re-read that maybe, because that’s an abundance of variables and considerations.

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The reason is pretty simple. Internal-combustion engines waste an enormous amount of the fuel they burn as heat. EVs lose energy too, including at the power plant and during transmission, but electric motors are so much more efficient that they retain a massive advantage even after those losses are counted. A dirty grid narrows the gap. It doesn’t magically erase it.

What The Study Doesn’t Claim

Before the angry comments come in, though, it’s worth being clear about what this study does and doesn’t say. It is a lifecycle greenhouse-gas analysis, so battery production is already in the equation. But it doesn’t claim EVs have no environmental cost, nor does it settle every issue people may cram under the word “green.”

Mining, water use, local air pollution, labor practices, battery recycling, and grid reliability all deserve their own scrutiny. Like every model, its results also depend on assumptions about battery life, manufacturing, charging behavior, and future electricity mixes. Those details can affect the size of an EV’s advantage from place to place.

Still, the core finding holds. Even with the country’s most carbon-intensive electricity mix, the researchers found battery EVs do not increase lifecycle emissions compared to combustion vehicles. That’s a remarkably direct answer to the smokestack argument.

The Grid Only Gets Cleaner

And the picture should keep improving. The EIA says wind and solar accounted for a record 19 percent of U.S. electricity generation in 2025. Every cleaner kilowatt-hour makes the EV already in your driveway cleaner to run. A gas car gets no such upgrade. It just keeps burning gas. You can prefer an ICE car. That’s fine. Plenty of us do. But pretending a fossil-fueled grid turns an EV into a gas car isn’t skepticism. At this point, it’s simply ignoring the evidence.

School transportation operations are increasingly turning to routing data, GPS, telematics, maintenance records and analytics tools to reduce fuel use, unnecessary mileage and related operating costs.

Transfinder recently announced that transportation leaders in 30 states cited operational challenges limiting route optimization in the software and hardware through the company’s School Bus Routing Efficiency Poll, with fuel costs being one pain point. The company noted California’s diesel per gallon prices in late May soared nearly 66 percent since April 2025 compared to 26 percent for gasoline, with one district turning to Transfinder routing software to help ensure logistically efficient routes.

“A route is never just a line on a map; it is a financial equation that directly impacts a district’s bottom line,” noted Ron Johnson, director of support operations for Indian Prairie School District #204 in Aurora, Illinois.

“As school districts nationwide grapple with tightening capital budgets, driver shortages and ambitious environmental goals, transportation directors are being asked to do more with less.”

True operational efficiency requires moving beyond reactive management, Johnson said, adding that transportation departments can transform themselves into data-driven strategic assets by leveraging advanced routing analytics, enforcing smart idling policies and optimizing fuel procurement.

Indian Prairie uses Tyler Technologies Versatrans
Routing and Planning with Tyler Drive tablets to analyze its routing practices and ensure reductions in fuel use and vehicle wear. “We positioned our dispatch centers and vehicle garage locations to reduce excessive deadhead miles,” he said. “Miles driven without students on board generate zero operational value while burning fuel and wearing down vehicles.”

The district has ongoing efforts to review outdated routes and changing ridership numbers. “A few years ago, we re-did our school boundaries, significantly reducing the miles driven,” Johnson said. “We also incorporated a practice to reduce idling and multiple stops in the same area. Left-hand turns against heavy traffic, stops placed too close together, routing through highly congested bottlenecks increase idle times, or slow average transit speeds and drives up fuel burn.”

Fuel efficiency in school transportation is fundamentally a systems problem, not just a driver behavior problem, said Craig Berndt, Geotab business segment manager for people transportation.

“A bus burning excess fuel is often a symptom of a route that was designed years ago against student populations and road networks that no longer exist,” he said, adding routing analytics make inefficiencies visible. By overlaying GPS tracking data against planned routes with Geotab’s routing partners, Berndt said patterns emerge quickly such as routes that consistently run 15 percent longer than planned, corridors where two routes shadow each other, and deadhead miles accumulating because a terminal is poorly positioned relative to the first pickup.

Districts taking a data-driven approach to routing optimization typically find 8- to 12-percent mileage reductions in the first year of active management, he noted.

“If you are not focused on efficiency, your routing can quickly overlap and become inefficient,” added Jason Hibbard, supervisor of transportation for the Chenango
Valley Central School District in Binghamton, New York.

“We focus on deadhead mileage. We are servicing multiple out-of-district locations. We constantly adjust routes to limit the time students are missing class time due to transportation and bell schedule conflicts.”

District data shows areas where a diesel bus could be run instead of gasoline to mitigate excessive brake use with the gas buses not having a supplemental exhaust brake, Hibbard said.

Meanwhile, Kathy Calkins, transportation director for North Clackamas School District in Oregon, said the district is using routing analytics to consolidate paths, eliminate excessive deadhead miles and ensure high bus capacity utilization.

Rich Casto, transportation supervisor at Jackson County Schools in West Virginia, agreed. He shared that analytics are playing a strong role in creating shorter,
better and smoother routes.

“When you’re looking at the ability to possibly combine a route without having that eagle’s eye view of mapping and routing with analytics, you really wouldn’t be able to see that without a lot of extra work,” he added.

Kacy L. Davis, Sr., the transportation director at St. Louis Public Schools in Missouri noted routing analytics are central to fuel efficiency “because every mile and every stop has a cost.” St. Louis provides student transportation through a partnership with Zum Services, using realtime GPS, telematics and routing analytics to reduce fuel use, improve route efficiency and enhance service reliability.

“This helps us eliminate outdated stops, reduce deadhead miles, tighten belltime coordination, and remove duplicated service areas which directly lowering fuel use
and operating costs,” said Davis.

Planned Versus Actual Routes
The gap between a planned route and the route a driver actually runs is one of the most underappreciated sources of cost in school transportation, noted Berndt.

Indian Prairie’s Johnson said a route may look flawless on a computer screen, but the divergence between the planned route and the actual path driven stems from
real-world variables.

“Construction zones, localized traffic, substitute drivers relying on historical workarounds, or dynamic student factors like missed stops all create a variance gap,” he said.

Johnson said his Onscreen GPS software allows his staff to review reports for when drivers deviate from the planned route path. Necessary adjustments can be made. St. Louis’ Davis said, “Zum’s platform shows us where buses deviate from planned routes due to construction, traffic, substitute drivers or outdated maps. When we see consistent patterns, we adjust routes, update turn-by-turn directions, and Zum coaches the drivers. This reduces unnecessary mileage without compromising safety.”

Hibbard in New York noted his district’s drivers are the ones on the road everyday. “We can sit in an office and use the best software available. However, when the driver hits the road, the route will not be perfect,” he said. “It takes constant work between the router and the driver to ensure the route is efficient. We use GPS regularly to ensure the driver is following the planned route to the best of their ability.”

West Virginia’s Casto noted it’s crucial to work with the vendors when changes and adjustments are needed. His district utilizes Zonar Systems. “For the most part, routes are routes. You have students and children in locations that you have to travel,” Casto said.

“But you can start to look at where you can combine the stops. Maybe you have another bus or an asset in an area that is a shorter distance to move those students over onto. “We’re in a rural area where you travel out further and deeper,” he continued. “Not all routes are interconnected through other side roads, so sometimes that’s not possible. But when you start to get into the more populated areas, then that’s where that plays in.”

Potholes in the Process
Road conditions also play a major role in fuel burning and maintenance cycles. “Zum’s telematics help us identify rough roads, steep grades and high stop-and-go
corridors that accelerate tire wear, brake cycles and suspension repairs,” Missouri’s Davis said. “Understanding these patterns allows us to reroute buses or collaborate with the city on infrastructure concerns.”

Road infrastructure and its impact on vehicle wear and tear is an area where telematics data can change how districts think about route assignments entirely,
Berndt at Geotab noted. Addressing road infrastructure and vehicle wear, Casto noted his district has examined that against the backdrop of being a rural school system.

“We travel a lot of back roads and secondary roads, so you have to take into consideration road conditions are not going to be what they would be in the inner-city area,” he said. “The biggest benefit of having that analytic option is to look at the route from a bird’s eye view and be able to see that there might a road that’s a little bit better and wouldn’t be as far for the parents to have to come if we have to move a route to stay on a better road.”

Hibbard said it is a daily focus of his staff to consider hills and brake usage, fuel efficiency, or just adjusting the route based on construction and/or traffic.

“When designing routes, we do our best to avoid certain problematic roads,” noted Calkins in Oregon. “However, student safety sometimes makes that unavoidable. To manage this, all buses undergo a comprehensive annual inspection, during which every component is thoroughly checked and maintained. This annual review is crucial, as it allows us to clearly evaluate the specific type of wear and tear each vehicle has experienced over the year.”

Understanding Idling Policies
Meanwhile, idling has a major compounding impact on fuel budgets, tailpipe emissions and public perception, especially when buses are queued near school zones and residential neighborhoods, noted Calkins.

“We address this through clear, enforced anti-idling policies [that are] communicated directly to our drivers during professional development and training,” she said.

“To uphold these standards, with our new tablets, we will utilize automated telematics system alerts. If a bus idles beyond a designated time threshold, notifications will be logged, allowing supervisors to review the data, follow up with the driver and ensure compliance. This strictly limits unnecessary fuel waste and protects air quality around our campuses.”

Chenango Valley Central School District follows New York state policy on not idling on school grounds unless it is excessively cold, Hibbard said.

Jackson County Schools has a 15-minute idling policy. “It’s not a real strict policy, but what having that available, is a conversation that you can have with the driver to point out here’s a place that we can make an improvement, here’s what that
over-idling costs the county in fuel costs. When you start putting those numbers on paper, you can sit down with a driver and look at that. It really hits home,” Casto said.

Vehicle idling is a compounding, costly and avoidable source of waste in school transportation, said Johnson, adding a typical school bus can burn up to a gallon of
fuel per hour while idling.

“Under Illinois statute, diesel school buses are generally restricted from idling for more than 10 minutes with a 15-minute exemption for passenger comfort,” Johnson said. “While running a bus for 15 minutes so a driver can sit in an air-conditioned cabin is a textbook violation, running that same bus to safely operate a wheelchair lift or to maintain a climate-controlled cabin for a student with severe thermoregulatory issues or a seizure disorder is a legally protected necessity.”

By using the district’s routing software to tag specific medical-necessity routes, the transportation department can filter out these legally exempt events from
its telematics reports, ensuring that driver coaching remains focused on actual waste rather than penalizing life-safety protocols, Johnson noted.

While routing analytics and idle reduction limit the physical volume of fuel burned, transportation directors must also optimize how that fuel is purchased, said Johnson.

“Transitioning from standard credit cards to a specialized government fleet fuel management program such as the WEX fuel card is a critical step in modernizing financial operations,” he added, noting additional benefits such as automating tax exemptions, capturing volume-based rebates, and providing security by utilizing driver PINS and odometer prompts.

Editor’s Note: As reprinted from the August 2026 issue of School Transportation News.

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“Every mile and every stop has a cost,” pointed out Kacy L. Davis, Sr., the transportation director for St. Louis (Missouri) Public Schools (SLPS) transportation director.

The return on investment in routing analytics is the ability for a transportation department to identify factors that are central to creating fuel efficiency practices in the wake of identifying waste.

Routing analytics is the foundation of fuel efficiency for school transportation vehicles, and fuel efficiency has been top-of-mind in recent months for school transportation departments against the backdrop of rising fuel costs.

Until routing analytics came upon the scene, transportation departments may have focused on driver behavior to identify fuel inefficiencies to the exclusion of other factors.

Through a transportation department’s use of routing analytics, fuel efficiency is no longer viewed as a driver-only issue but is instead becoming increasingly recognized by districts as a product of routing design, operational planning and continuous route analysis, among other factors.

“When a district is operating routes with ghost stops, duplicated coverage between two buses serving the same corridor, or bell times that force buses to idle between runs, no amount of driver coaching recovers those losses,” pointed out Craig Berndt, Geotab business segment manager of people transportation, on the value of using routing analytics.

Routing analytics provide visibility to a wide range of school transportation inefficiencies, Berndt said, adding, “Once you can see it, you can address it.”

Creating route optimization through data and routing analytics is a significant driving factor in mileage — and thus fuel — reductions, transportation directors noted.

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“At current diesel prices, that’s a meaningful budget line,” Berndt said. “And unlike one-time capital purchases, route efficiency compounds over time as the district builds the discipline of comparing planned routes versus actual routes continuously.”

Jason Hibbard, supervisor of transportation for the Chenango Valley Central School District in Binghamton, New York, concurred that school transportation routing analytics are critical to fuel efficiency by highlighting route efficiency issues that had previously been behind the scenes.

Those issues might include multiple drivers assigned to the same neighborhood or area, or students being added to certain routes. Drivers can easily be asked to double back and travel unnecessary mileage. Another factor is a rapid student load change over the school year, drastically affecting the timing of buses reaching schools, said Hibbard.

Kathy Calkins, North Clackamas (Oregon) School District transportation director, agreed with other directors in that using routing analytics helps to address the challenge of deadhead miles when buses travel without students, among other challenges.

“Analyzing ridership patterns helps us align routes with actual student counts rather than outdated historical data,” she pointed out. “Maximizing the efficiency of every mile driven directly reduces daily fuel burn, driver labor hours and cumulative wear and tear across the entire fleet.”

Routing analytics as the foundation of creating fuel efficiency also is embraced by Jackson County Schools in West Virginia where transportation supervisor Rich Castro praises it for offering an “eagle’s eye view of mapping and routing.”

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Solar panels on an EV are usually the kind of feature that sounds far more useful than it turns out to be. Clemson University’s Deep Orange 17 might actually flip that on its ear. The team there worked with BMW to wrap more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells around a tiny EV coupe that looks like a homemade Cybertruck, and the result, they say, adds more energy than it uses over a normal day of urban driving. Don’t get too stoked yet, though; there’s a lot to break down.

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Developed by 16 graduate students alongside BMW’s research and development team, the prototype is called the Luminetta. Clemson says it was designed around a 12-mile (20 km) daily commute. It’s unclear how many folks have just a 12-mile commute but it clearly doesn’t apply to most. That said, the car is designed to soak up sunlight both when parked and when moving.

The big issue, of course, is that this is not remotely a normal car. In the metal it’s all flat angles and improvised paneling. Deep Orange 17 weighs just 1,212 pounds (550 kg), or roughly a quarter of the mass of many similarly sized production vehicles. Its multi-material structure combines steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, and 3D-printed metal joints, while regenerative braking, torque distribution, and optimized drivetrain controls all work toward the same goal of using as little energy as possible.

Clemson and its Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE partners modeled sunlight and environmental conditions in Greenville, South Carolina; Frankfurt, Germany; Madrid, Spain; and Mumbai, India. Across those locations, the university says the solar system could generate enough surplus electricity to add an average of 31 miles (50 km) of driving range per day. That’s groundbreaking regardless of all the other caveats here.

Sure, it’ll take a bevy of other innovations to apply this sort of thing to a modern production vehicle. But rather than simply being able to power a car with the sun, this one is proving that it’s technically possible to gain more energy than one would use on a very short… commute.

Photos: Clemson University / BMW

For the past few years, buying a used EV has been a waiting game, with would-be buyers often waiting for prices to fall a little further. That strategy may no longer be paying off. Used electric vehicle prices are climbing rapidly while the rest of the used car market continues to drift in the opposite direction, making dream cars like the Porsche 911 more affordable.

New data from iSeeCars suggests the turnaround isn’t a one-month anomaly, either. Used EV prices have now posted three straight months of year-over-year gains, moving from a 2.7 percent increase in April to 5.2 percent in May before reaching 7.4 percent in June.

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That pushed the average price of a one- to five-year-old used EV to $33,305 in June. Compared with the same month last year, that’s an increase of $2,308. Meanwhile, the average used vehicle price fell by 1.3 percent year over year, highlighting just how differently the EV segment is behaving.

Rising fuel costs may have helped trigger the shift, iSeeCars Executive Analyst Karl Brauer logically suggests. Gasoline prices rose sharply during the Iran conflict earlier this year, but it took several weeks before buyers adjusted their shopping habits and begin gravitating back toward EVs.

Average 1-5 YO EV Prices

Tesla was the biggest beneficiary of the trend. All four of the brand’s core models landed among the 10 used vehicles with the largest year-over-year price increases. The Model X led the entire market, jumping 17.5 percent to an average price of $60,950.

The Model 3 wasn’t far behind with a 13.5 percent increase, while the Model S climbed 13.1 percent and the Model Y gained 12.0 percent. “Tesla makes up nearly half of the top 10 used models with the highest price increase,” Brauer noted.

Perhaps just as telling is what didn’t appear in the rankings. Not a single EV showed up among the 20 used vehicles with the steepest price declines. Instead, that list was populated by a mix of luxury vehicles, pickups, SUVs, hybrids, and conventional gasoline-powered models. The Lincoln Corsair posted the biggest percentage value drop (-14.7 %), but the Porsche 911 was right behind it (-10.6 %), and reminds us that there’s a silver lining to every cloud.

Used Cars With The Biggest Price Increases

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Used Cars With The Biggest Price Drops

iSeeCars

Will costs keep going up for school transportation operations in the 2026-2027
school year? It depends. Several factors impacted this past year’s school transportation budget, and the most notable line-item increase was likely to your fuel costs.

New school district budgets are rolling out this month for most operations, and I’ve been told that transportation department budgets remained flat or down in most cases. What is going to change if you don’t take action to defend against future fuel volatility? More cuts? Ugh.

I recently spoke with an executive at a private school bus contractor, who was surprised to learn that school districts rarely use fuel hedging. He explained that the strategy helps create more predictable costs and protects his company and customers from sudden fuel price swings.

A transportation director I spoke with described fuel hedging as gambling, but I see it differently. It’s a practical way to manage costs and reduce budget uncertainty. While fuel prices can rise or fall, recent trends suggest increases are more likely than decreases.

School districts should consider this strategy because fuel price volatility directly threatens core operations and educational priorities in a way that private companies can often pass on to customers. Recent years have shown districts scrambling, consolidating routes, dipping into reserves, deferring maintenance or fleet purchases, or cutting programs, when diesel fuel spikes.

Hedging treats fuel cost risk like insurance: You pay a premium (in the form of potential opportunity cost or fees) for protection against worst-case scenarios. For entities with predictable, high-volume consumption like school buses, it aligns well with annual budgeting cycles.

Will fuel volatility change the way school transportation operators consider purchasing new school buses? I predict we will see higher consideration for alternative fuels like propane and electric instead of diesel or gasoline.
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in the Houston, Texas area—the largest school bus operation in the state—has no current plans to purchase diesel school buses as it focuses on propane and electric, said Bobby Williams, assistant director of transportation for fleet maintenance.

According to an STN readership survey of 636 subscribers conducted in April, respondents indicated purchase intent of new diesel buses, engines and components at 26 percent, new gasoline buses at 11 percent and new alternative fuel buses and infrastructure (propane, electric, CNG) at 10 percent.

The school bus and larger commercial truck industry will need to adjust to the EPA’s 2027 heavy-duty emissions rule that tightens nitrogen oxide and particulate matter emissions limits. The EPA is expected to release its revised final rule this month to address increased production costs tied to major engineering redesigns and, more specifically, warranty costs.

The EPA is also expected to announce the return of the five-year, $5-billion Clean School Bus Program, which has been on hiatus since January of last year. The agency indicated in an RFI published earlier this year that it was considering adding biodiesel and renewable diesel as fundable fuel types.

Another tactic to address rising fuel costs is the use of technology. Have you leveraged artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and your routing software partners to help? AI-powered routing software analyzes traffic, weather, construction, and student address data to create the most efficient, fuel-saving routes. The integration of onboard tablets allows for turn-by-turn directions
and student manifests. These systems adapt in real time, helping buses avoid delays and improve on-time performance. These systems help cut fuel use, reduce
emissions and improve operational costs.

Fleets should consider utilizing more data-driven decision making in their operations. AI platforms collect and analyze transportation data to identify trends, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities. Dashboards visualize everything from ridership to route efficiency to behavior incidents, helping administrators make informed decisions. Improved operations, better budgeting and resource allocation, and stronger alignment with academic goals. By leveraging AI and emerging technologies, school districts are turning the daily commute into a strategic asset.

The road to and from school can be a dynamic, data-rich and fuel-consuming journey, but it’s all mission critical for any school transportation operation. Economic hardships force us to adapt and transform the outcomes should enhance performance, safety and empower transportation teams with the tools they
need to succeed in the future.

I recommend considering fresh ideas and leaning on your business partners as you look towards the 2026-2027 school year and beyond.

Editor’s Note: As reprinted from the July 2026 issue of School Transportation News.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. —Samsara Inc. (“Samsara”) (NYSE: IOT), the pioneer of the Connected Operations Platform, today announced the winners of its 2026 Connected Operations Awards, recognizing the remarkable achievements of its customers in safety, efficiency, sustainability, and innovation. The annual awards program honors organizations and individuals across North America and EMEA who demonstrate the clear benefits of AI-powered operations.

“The winners of Samsara’s Connected Operations Awards are proof that AI represents a fundamental shift in how work gets done—one that’s already saving lives and cutting costs,” said Robert Stobaugh, Chief Operating Officer at Samsara. “The submissions told stories of safer workers, more efficient operations, and real impact for communities. What unites every winner is a team that refuses to settle, and we’re proud to work alongside them.”

Introducing the 2026 global award winners:

U.S. and Canada: Discover their stories

Safest Operator: Utility Supply & Construction Company

Innovation in Sustainable Operations: Massey Services

Digital Transformation of the Year: Enercare

Most Innovative Workforce: Tyson Foods, Inc.

Technology Leader of the Year: David Perez, Vice President of Safety, First Student

Driver of the Year (U.S.): Darrin J. Lonsdale, Action Resources

Driver of the Year (Canada): Jessie-Lee Beaudoin, Whitewater Management LP

Mexico: Discover their stories

Safest Operator: Grupo Aralo

Digital Transformation of the Year: Royal Transports

Excellence in Physical Security: Transportes MexAmerik

Driver of the Year: José Rigoberto Carrera Ruiz, Flecha Amarilla

EMEA: Discover their stories

Safest Operator (UK): Speedy Hire

Safest Operator (Germany): SafeDriver ennoo

Excellence in Driver Engagement: Sysco GB

Most Sustainable Operations: Lanes Group

Industry Innovator: Renew Holdings plc

Driver of the Year: Richard Meehan, JLL

A snapshot of the impactful results winners drove with Samsara:

Utility Supply & Construction Company achieved a 98% reduction in insurance claim costs, dropping from a historical high of $1.4M to just $22K midway through the current policy year

Massey Services saved $1.3M in fuel costs in one year with centralized fuel reporting and idling alerts

Enercare reduced operating costs through better vehicle utilization, cutting vehicle dormancy by 26%

Grupo Aralo dropped its collision risk per mile by 70% while increasing its Security Score by 164% in Mexico

Lanes Group digitized 1.3M form submissions per year and reduced vehicle idling by 83%, improving efficiency across the business

“With fuel costs where they are today, every gallon matters. Samsara helped us save more than a million dollars in fuel costs in a single year and changed how we manage our fleet,” said Bryan Campbell, Director of Risk Management at Massey Services. “Our safety program benefitted too. We’ve reduced accidents by 35% and traffic violations by 88%. When you find a partner who genuinely understands your operations, the results show.”

Further information about the awards:

Learn more about the winners from the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, and EMEA

Read about the winners for Excellence in Performance in the Public Sector, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Garden City Public Schools, announced at Samsara Go Beyond Public Sector

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.

All statistics and expectations listed herein are provided by Samsara’s customers.

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