Case Study: City of Fort Lauderdale achieves 28% less vehicle downtime and 20% less idling with Samsara

The City of Fort Lauderdale reduces vehicle downtime by 28% with fleet diagnostic reports

The City of Fort Lauderdale manages a fleet of more than 1,700 vehicles across 11 departments and needed better visibility to improve emergency response times, streamline dispatching, and address citizen complaints—issues made worse by limited tracking for non-emergency vehicles and poor maintenance insight. City leaders sought a solution beyond basic GPS to monitor driver behavior, vehicle health, routing, and temperature-sensitive assets.

By deploying the Samsara platform—real-time GPS, engine diagnostics, geofencing, reporting, and environmental sensors—the city consolidated vehicle, asset, and temperature data on one dashboard and enabled live alerts and sharing. Results included a 20% reduction in idling, 28% decrease in vehicle downtime, 24% fewer vehicles in the shop, a 90% drop in city overweight crossings at a historic bridge within five months, and a 5% fuel reduction (about 28,000 gallons, ~$70,500 saved in six months), plus improved citizen response and safer handling of temperature-sensitive medications and K‑9 units.

City of Fort Lauderdale

Sandy Leonard

Program Manager of Fleet Services