Point of Rental, Samsara Announce GPS Integration

Samsara’s software lets companies view route activity for their delivery vehicles, enabling them to instantly track vehicle location, route progress, and late or missed stops.

Michael Roth

May 5, 2025

2 min read

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Point of Rental’s Elite platform now integrates with Samsara, connecting route data between Elite’s Dispatch Center and Samsara’s GPS Fleet Tracking.

Samsara’s software lets companies view route activity for their delivery vehicles, enabling them to instantly track vehicle location, route progress, and late or missed stops.

Samsara’s GPS-tracking dashcams trigger arrival and departure notifications when trucks, trailers, or equipment cross the geofence around a site. Notifications can automatically send emails or texts via Elite to let customers know that their items have arrived or that the driver has left the site.

“Our customers are already using Samsara to manage their fleets,” said John Wooten, Elite’s product manager. “Connecting delivery and location data to Elite will allow them to communicate better internally and with their customers. We’re excited to see the impact this integration will have for our customers - and their customers, too.”

Samsara’s trackers can use Elite’s Twilio integration to send text messages as well, opening up even more ways to communicate route updates.

For more information about the integration, visit pointofrental.com.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.