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Samsara Becomes First Highway Certified ELD Provider

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Samsara has become the first Highway Certified ELD Provider under the Highway Certified Network.

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DALLAS, Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Highway , the leading provider of Carrier Identity® solutions, today announced that Samsara, the pioneer of the Connected Operations Platform, has become the first Highway Certified ELD Provider. A San Francisco-based IoT company, Samsara provides a cloud platform that combines hardware, software and AI to give businesses in the transportation, logistics, construction and other physical operations industries real-time visibility into their vehicles, equipment and operations. This designation expands the Highway Certified Network into electronic logging devices and telematics data. The Highway Certified Network establishes standards and shared accountability for the third-party data sources critical to freight brokers when making carrier selection, compliance and risk-management decisions. Highway launched the network earlier this year with Highway Certified Insurance Agencies and is now extending the framework to ELD providers. As a Highway Certified ELD Provider, Samsara has committed to defined standards around the integrity, availability, timeliness and reliability of vehicle and location data made available to Highway. "ELD data has become an important part of how brokers determine whether a carrier has the capability needed to haul a load," said Marshall Smith, Head of the Certified Network at Highway. "The trust in that signal...

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Certification

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Recognition
Highway Certified ELD Provider
Takes effect
Oct 21, 2026
Location
San Francisco, California, United States

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95%
Detected
Oct 21, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
achieves_certification

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