Borderlands Mexico: Samsara opens new office to focus on expanding cross-border trade

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Samsara opens new office to focus on expanding cross-border trade; TriumphPay expands payments network to Mexico; China-based auto supplier to build $36M factory in Mexico; and Quantix acquires hazardous waste hauler in Houston.

Samsara opens new office to focus on expanding cross-border trade

San Francisco-based Samsara recently opened a new office in Mexico City aiming to support a growing customer base south of the border.

The telematics solution provider first entered the Mexican market in 2019 and has increased its customer base rapidly, collecting five of the top 10 trucking companies in Mexico as customers.

With the new office, Samsara officials expect to double the number of employees in Mexico by the end of the year to around 400 people. The company is also investing in business technology, operations, sales and support roles to meet the growing demand in the country.

“We are growing across the board with sales, support, and finance, so that our customers are very well covered throughout their journey,” Julia Monroy, Samsara sales director for Mexico, told FreightWaves. “Today we have around 200 employees based in Mexico, compared to two years ago, when we were only 10. It’s been a really great growth and we’re expecting to double the amount of employees over the next year.”

Samsara (NYSE: IOT), founded in 2015, provides a connected cloud to modernize physical operations, such as commercial fleets and industrial activities. The company has more than 20,000 customers in the energy, food and beverage, construction and manufacturing and transportation industries.

Source: freightwaves.com