My 4 Month Review of Schuster

Like Bryan said, Omnitracs is just dated and lacking on features for the 'new age' for a decent sized fleet.

Like on Samsara, we can scan bills, send in pictures of trailer damages, inspection reports, can send in mechanical issues that go directly to the shop, etc. Cuts down on hunting down emails and making phone calls just to find out where to send simple things.

I've noticed with some of our brokers, our arrival and departure times are automatically sent to them. It also uses geofencing to auto detect arrival and departure.

Ties in with the cameras and safety automatically, so any "coaching" is done on Samsara as well.

My only real peeve is that the 14hr shift clock on Samsara adjusts to whatever you have left on your 70. Obviously you still have a 14hr shift, but if you have 8 hours on your 70, the 14hr clock will read 8 hours for some reason. Still operates like normal, but I think it should show 14 since that clock is independent of the 11hr/70hr rules. Have to do mental gymnastics sometimes if you're doing splits or recapping to figure out what's left on your 14 if you're low on hours.

 

I stay out 5-6 weeks and then go home for a week usually. Miles slowed down a bit in December for the holidays as expected, but things are headed back to normalcy

 

I’ve heard there was a time here where it was a little rougher around the edges lol. I’ve only had one dispatcher since I’ve been here, and we get along well, so I might’ve gotten lucky. They have moved to a 2 year trade cycle though, so would be hard to find a truck over 300k now, at least.