SAsamsara
Vehicles

Retrieve a vehicle

Get information about a specific vehicle.

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To use this endpoint, select Read Vehicles under the Vehicles category when creating or editing an API token. <a href="https://developers.samsara.com/docs/authentication#scopes-for-api-tokens" target="_blank">Learn More.</a>

get/fleet/vehicles/{id}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.samsara.com
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Path parameters

idstring required

ID of the vehicle. This can either be the Samsara-specified ID, or an external ID. External IDs are customer specified key-value pairs created in the POST or PATCH requests of this resource, or automatically populated by fields on the vehicle. To specify an external ID as part of a path parameter, use the following format: key:value. For example, maintenanceId:250020. Automatically populated external IDs are prefixed with samsara.. For example, samsara.vin:1HGBH41JXMN109186.

Response

Returns the specified vehicle object.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": [
      {
        "id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000",
        "name": "License Certifications"
      }
    ],
    "auxInputType1": "boom",
    "auxInputType10": "boom",
    "auxInputType11": "boom",
    "auxInputType12": "boom",
    "auxInputType13": "boom",
    "auxInputType2": "boom",
    "auxInputType3": "boom",
    "auxInputType4": "boom",
    "auxInputType5": "boom",
    "auxInputType6": "boom",
    "auxInputType7": "boom",
    "auxInputType8": "boom",
    "auxInputType9": "boom",
    "cameraSerial": "CNCK-VT8-XA8",
    "esn": "11223344",
    "externalIds": {
      "maintenanceId": "250020",
      "payrollId": "ABFS18600"
    },
    "gateway": {
      "model": "VG34",
      "serial": "ABCD-123-XYZ"
    },
    "grossVehicleWeight": {
      "unit": "lb",
      "weight": 1000
    },
    "harshAccelerationSettingType": "off",
    "id": "112",
    "licensePlate": "XHK1234",
    "make": "Ford",
    "model": "F150",
    "name": "Truck A7",
    "notes": "These are notes about this given vehicle.",
    "serial": "VG12345",
    "staticAssignedDriver": {
      "id": "88668",
      "name": "Susan Bob"
    },
    "tags": [
      {
        "id": "3914",
        "name": "East Coast",
        "parentTagId": "4815"
      }
    ],
    "vehicleRegulationMode": "regulated",
    "vehicleType": "truck",
    "vin": "1FUJA6BD31LJ09646",
    "year": "2008"
  }
}

Changes

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