Best Fleet Dash Cameras for Trucking Companies (2026)

Samsara is the platform most large trucking companies end up on, and for good reason: it's the only vendor that genuinely delivers a single pane of glass across AI dash cam, ELD/HOS, GPS, vehicle diagnostics, DVIR, fuel, and maintenance — without you stitching three vendors together. The CM34 dual-facing camera captures 2K road-facing footage with HDR for night driving and uses edge AI to detect distracted driving, drowsiness, tailgating, harsh events, and rolling stops, with instant in-cab audio coaching. Footage is automatically uploaded over LTE within seconds of any flagged event.

For trucking specifically, what sets Samsara apart is the depth of the safety workflow: coaching sessions, driver scorecards, video review queues, and exoneration packets are all native, and the mobile driver app gives drivers visibility into their own scores — which dramatically reduces resistance to driver-facing cameras. The platform also handles IFTA reporting, hours-of-service violations, and DVIR workflows with the same polish, making it a real one-vendor solution for medium-to-large carriers who don't want to manage four separate logins.

Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) is purpose-built for trucking — it grew up as an ELD provider before moving into AI dash cams, and that DNA shows. The AI Dashboard surfaces unsafe behaviors, accident risk, and coaching opportunities in a way that's specifically tuned to over-the-road carriers. The dual-facing AI cam detects close following, hard braking, lane drift, cell phone use, and unbelted driving, and a key differentiator is the proactive AI coaching that fires alerts before incidents based on cumulative risk patterns.

For trucking companies between 25 and 500 trucks, Motive often hits the sweet spot: it offers around 85-90% of Samsara's capability at a meaningfully lower price point, with a UI that drivers consistently rate as easier to use than competitors. The integrated ELD and HOS workflow is genuinely best-in-class — Motive is one of the few vendors where the ELD wasn't an afterthought — and IFTA reporting, smart load matching, and the spend management card add real operational value beyond just safety.

Netradyne's Driveri is the dash cam to beat on pure AI quality. The road-facing camera uses four-camera HD vision plus on-device deep learning to detect over 100 different driving behaviors, and in independent fleet trials it consistently outperforms competitors on false-positive rate — which matters enormously when your safety team has to triage hundreds of alerts per week. The system is engineered for long-haul and regional trucking specifically, with strong night-vision performance and tolerance for the vibration and temperature ranges of Class 8 cabs.

Where Netradyne really differentiates is the GreenZone driver scoring system. Instead of only flagging bad behavior, Driveri gives drivers positive scores for safe driving — recognized stops, smooth acceleration, proper following distance — which has been shown in customer case studies to flip driver sentiment from hostile to enthusiastic within 60 days. For trucking companies struggling with driver pushback on cameras, this is often the deciding factor. Netradyne is camera-and-safety focused, so you'll keep your existing ELD and TSP.

Lytx has been in the video-based safety space longer than anyone else and has the largest dataset of risky driving events in commercial trucking — over 230 billion miles analyzed. The DriveCam SF400 captures continuous road-facing video and uses a hybrid model: machine vision flags events, and Lytx's professional review team (yes, real humans) classifies them before they reach your safety manager. For larger fleets that don't want their internal team buried in alert triage, this managed-service approach is uniquely valuable.

Lytx is the platform most commonly required by trucking insurance carriers as a condition of coverage or premium discount, and the actuarial data backing its risk reduction claims is the deepest in the industry. The Risk Detection Service identifies and prioritizes the riskiest 1% of events, dramatically reducing the volume of footage your team has to review. Lytx also offers a continuous-recording option (CRO) that some legal teams prefer for litigation defense, since you have video of the full minute leading up to an event rather than just the trigger window.

Geotab takes a fundamentally different approach: rather than building its own dash cam, it operates an open marketplace where you bring your camera of choice (Surfsight, VideoProtects, Lytx, and others integrate natively) and Geotab handles the GPS, telematics, ELD, and data layer. For trucking companies that already run Geotab — and there are many, since Geotab is one of the largest TSPs in commercial fleet — adding video means picking a partner camera and unifying the data inside MyGeotab.

This architecture has real advantages: you avoid vendor lock-in on the camera side, you get the deepest fleet engineering data in the industry (Geotab's GO9 device captures over 240 engine parameters), and you can swap camera vendors later without losing your telematics history. The downside is integration complexity — you're managing two relationships and the AI workflows aren't as tightly stitched as a single-vendor solution. Geotab is the right answer when telematics depth and openness matter more than out-of-the-box safety polish.

Verizon Connect (formerly Fleetmatics) is the right pick for mixed fleets — trucking companies that operate Class 8 tractors alongside service vans, light-duty pickups, and trailers. The Reveal platform unifies GPS tracking, ELD, AI dash cams, and asset tracking under one login, and the cellular backbone is, predictably, very reliable since it runs on Verizon's network. The AI dash cam offering covers the standard set of distracted driving, drowsiness, and harsh-event detection.

For trucking-only operations, Verizon Connect tends to feel less specialized than Motive or Samsara — the platform is designed to work for plumbers and HVAC contractors as much as for OTR carriers. But for fleets where the truck side is part of a broader operation (think construction companies with both heavy haul and service trucks, or beverage distributors with tractors and step vans), the unified platform avoids the operational headache of running separate systems for different vehicle classes.

SureCam is the budget pick that punches well above its weight for small-to-mid trucking companies. The platform offers cellular-connected dash cams (single-facing or dual-facing) with unlimited cloud video storage, instant footage retrieval, and live streaming — features that the premium vendors charge significantly more for. There's no AI coaching layer comparable to Samsara or Netradyne, but for many smaller carriers what they actually need is fast, reliable video for incident investigation and driver exoneration, not a sophisticated coaching workflow.

What makes SureCam particularly attractive for trucking is the contract flexibility — month-to-month and annual options are available, which is rare in this category. For owner-operators and fleets under 50 trucks who can't justify a 60-month commitment to Samsara or Lytx, SureCam offers a credible exoneration-and-evidence solution at a fraction of the cost. Pair it with your existing ELD and you have a respectable safety stack for well under $30 per truck per month.