Head of Insights + Product Comms @Samsara. Past: Head of Comms @Navan, @TripIt, Hipmunk (RIP). SF State Journalism alum. Opinions my own.

SF Bay Area
Joined November 2012
Hey I made up this category years ago 😉
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Thrilled to be the first guest at @MTSlive new studio (it’s stunning). Voice is clearly the new UI for agents deployed in the real world. Thanks for having us @liangsays @sophiadew @MTSlive
day 1 at new studio with @theojaffee multi-level compound, we will reveal more every day + huge news day with muse wonder release, gemini argon, apple's homeview joined by gemini's very own @tulseedoshi, friend of the show @levie and others from @Samsara (~$23b), @FactoryAI @RSI @progresschamber and more it's time to monitor the situation
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Great look at how progressive fleets are using AI and @Samsara data to keep costs down via @FreightWaves freightwaves.com/news/ai-sav…
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What to watch this week: whether w/o Sep 21 sets a fourth straight all-time high. The DOE weekly index already printed $6.53 for that week. Full briefing 👉 linkedin.com/build-relation/…
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In August, fleets in Samsara's database paid an avg $5.32/gal for diesel. The posted pump price for the same weeks (EIA) was $5.46. That's $0.13/gal less overall; adjusted for where fleets actually fuel, the delta is $0.10/gal
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California is still the most expensive state for fleets, averaging $7.64 last week. Colorado is $5.74.
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The states seeing the biggest price jumps aren't necessarily the most expensive: Maryland +10.1%, Montana +9.9%, Wisconsin +9.4%. Mid-Atlantic, Rockies, Midwest — three regions that don't share supply.
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Avg gas spend (used in lightweight vehicles) sits at $4.66, still 13% below the 2022 peak. The diesel–gasoline spread is now a whopping $1.62/gal — the widest ever recorded in the index.
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... And the 6th straight week of spend increases. The two biggest WoW jumps — +$0.28 and +$0.33 — were also the two most recent. Diesel averaged $5.40 in August. It's up another 21% since.
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Avg spend is up 76% year over year, and 69% since the last full week before the conflict began in late February, when fleets paid an avg of $3.71. It's the third straight week at a record.
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