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Samsara guide

Connect your Samsara ELDs or trackers with Chaine to provide a better experience for your customers. To do that, you will need to provide Chaine with your API token when filling out our Carrier onboarding form.

To get started, follow these simple instructions:

1. Login to your Samsara account​

2. Once logged in, at the bottom left, select the Settings button (⚙️ icon) on the sidebar​

samsara settings

3. Click "API Tokens"​

samsara developer menu

4. Click "Add an API Token"​

samsara api tokens page

5. Add any name such as "chaine_tracking"​

samsara create api token

6. Add the following permissions to the API (see next steps for images):​

  • Under Equipment: Read for EQUIPMENT and Read for EQUIPMENT STATISTICS
  • Under Trailers: Read for SELECT ALL
  • Under Vehicles: Read for VEHICLES and Read for VEHICLE STATISTICS

6a. Scroll down to "Equipment" and make sure under SELECT ALL, the Read option is selected:​

samsara equipment

Alternatively, you can select Read for EQUIPMENT and Read for EQUIPMENT STATISTICS:

samsara equipment statistics

6b. Scroll down to "Trailers" and make sure under "SELECT ALL", the "Read" option is selected:​

samsara trailers

6c. Scroll down to "Vehicles" and make sure under "SELECT ALL", the "Read" option is selected:​

samsara vehicles

Alternatively, you can select Read for VEHICLES and Read for VEHICLE STATISTICS:

samsara trailers

6. Scroll to the bottom without changing anything and click "Save"​

samsara save permissions

7. Copy the token, and you are ready to paste it.​

IMPORTANT: You can only copy the API Token once its created, and won't have the option to go back to it. So make sure you have copied it before moving on.