To easily locate and excuse speeding events, Samsara allows you to configure your speeding settings to send the most severe speeding events to the Safety Inbox for coaching.
Speeding events can be surfaced using one or both of the following settings in the Speeding Settings:
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Max Speed: Triggers a Safety Inbox event when a vehicle exceeds a defined speed for a continuous duration. For example, if the Max Speed is set to 65 mph for 60 seconds, an event is recorded if the vehicle exceeds 65 mph for 60 seconds or more. For more details, see Max Speeding Events.
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Severe Speed: Routes Severe speeding events to the Safety Inbox. For example, if the Severe threshold is set to 12+ mph over the limit for 60 seconds, an event is recorded if a vehicle travels 62 mph in a 50 mph zone for 60 seconds or more.
To view trips, you must be a Full Admin or have a custom role with read permissions for both the vehicle and the driver.
After you Configure Speeding Settings, use the following workflow to triage speeding events for completed and in-progress trips:
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From the Samsara dashboard, select Safety (
) > Safety Inbox > Needs Review.
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Use the Event Type filter to select one or more speeding severity types.
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Sort and filter the Safety Inbox to align with your review workflow:
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Sort by: Priority or view mode (Trip, Event, or Driver by Day).
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Filter by: Tags, date range, event search
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Select the row to view and manage speeding events from the Safety Event Summary.
The type of summary displayed (Event, Trip, or Driver) depends on the selected view mode.
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After you review the event summary, you can take the following next steps:
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Learn more about the speeding trends: Review the speed graph, Trip Speeding Summary, or Google Maps Street View to investigate vehicle behavior and identify patterns in severity and duration.
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Administrative actions: Route the event for manager-led or self-coaching, update the coaching status, or edit the posted speed limit based on context from the event.
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The speed graph in a Safety Inbox event provides a visual timeline of speeding activity, helping you assess when and where violations occurred and how severe they were. The following insights are available from the graph:
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Zoom into time segments by clicking and dragging on the graph, or adjusting the time slider to narrow the time window.
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View speed and limit details by hovering over any point to display speed, posted limit, and amount over. Speeding events are color-coded by severityto support quick visual evaluation.
To review broader patterns or understand location context, you can take the following additional actions:
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View trip-level speeding patterns—including total time spent speeding, number of violations, and severity breakdown—by opening the Trip Speeding Summary.
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Examine the event environment by opening the violation location in Google Street View.
After reviewing a speeding event, you can take the following actions directly from the summary Details or timeline:
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Send to coaching: Route the event for self-led or manager-led coaching (click Send to Driver (
) from the event timeline for a single event, or click Send to Coaching from the top of the summary view to apply to all events).
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Update coaching status: Apply a Coaching Status such as Reviewed, Coached, or Dismissed to reflect coaching completion (use the more actions ( ••• ) menu in the event timeline for a single event, or the dropdown next to the Send to Coaching button to apply to all events).
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Edit speed limit: Open the location of the speeding event in the Map Editor (click (
) Edit from the summary details).
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