Plan a Route

(Optional) Add one or more addresses to the Samsara address book (see Manage an Address ).

From the Samsara dashboard, select Dispatch () > Routes.

Select + Create New Route.

Enter a descriptive Route Name and assign the route to a vehicle or a driver.

If you assign the route to a vehicle, drivers who are signed into the vehicle can access this route from the Samsara Driver App.

(Optional) If you want drivers to repeat the route, select Repeat this route, choose the route frequency, and click Done.

For each stop, enter the destination address or select the address book entry to which you want to dispatch a vehicle.

Samsara calculates approximate drive times for your fleet and lists the vehicles in order of arrival time from their current location.

Define the route schedule and add any stops along the route.

If you add multiple stops, you can Optimize Route to enable Samsara to order the stops for the most fastest route (for more information on this calculation, see Route Optimization). Or, if you want to plan the order of the stops manually, you drag and drop them in the desired order and then Calculate Departure Times (for more information on departure calculations, see Departure Times Calculations).

To add a note for the stop visible to the driver from the Samsara Driver App, include Notes in the route stop.

The route view for fleet administrators does not include the driver notes.

Create Route when done.

Your new route will appear on the Routes dashboard in the time-frame you set and in the Samsara Driver App for the driver or the current driver assigned to the vehicle you selected. Drivers can see their current assigned routes and any routes scheduled within the next two days.

Return to the Routes page to edit and Manage Routes.