Create and track a waste-hauler collection route with the Samsara Routing API
domain: Samsara Routing API (developers.samsara.com) · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Create an API token scoped for Routes, Addresses, Vehicles, and Drivers from the Samsara dashboard.
Create Address records for each stop, then create a route referencing those addresses via the Creating Routes API.
Assign the route to a vehicle (recommended when the driver may change mid-route) or to a driver.
Attach stop-level notes for order and customer detail, since Samsara has no first-class 'order' object.
Poll the routes audit-logs feed or subscribe to RouteStopArrival/Departure webhooks to track live progress.
Known gotchas
Samsara has no native 'order' entity - order, SKU, and gate-code data must be stored in the stop's notes field by convention.
Route start/completion trigger settings (arriveFirstStop vs departFirstStop, etc.) are configurable per organization and per route, changing what 'started' or 'completed' means for your integration.
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