Blue Tank & Pump provides an incredible variety of tools throughout their service region of Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio. It all started in 2016 in Nicholasville, Kent., with…tanks and pumps. Whether you wanted to keep liquid in one location or move it to another, that was their specialty.
As they’ve grown to eight locations across those four states, however, they’ve added new options for their customers: Roll off and vac boxes. Generators. Water treatment. Trench safety and shoring. Even some general items like air compressors.
In 2025, Blue Tank & Pump has more than 5,000 items heading back and forth throughout their service area, so they have a lot to keep track of!
Enter Point of Rental and Samsara.
IT Manager Travis Pendygraft, President Tanner Perdue, and the Blue Tank & Pump team love the tools Samsara adds to their fleet management – they’re already tracking the location of at least 2500 pieces of inventory. They love Samsara’s telematics-enhanced modules, too, implementing them in hundreds of items with engines to track usage, fuel levels, and error codes.
And of course they love their Elite software, which lets them know where everything is supposed to be, when it should be there, who’s available and able to service equipment, and more.
But what if they worked together? Travis and the team thought.
Expanding Functionality with Integrations
Point of Rental recently announced a limited integration with Samsara that allows for Elite to see your Samsara geofences and trigger email or SMS notifications.
The integration is valuable for companies with a lot of deliveries, especially those scheduled in advance, and Travis is looking forward to using it where possible.
But Blue Tank & Pump specializes in rapid emergency response, with more than half of their rentals being unplanned same-day deployments.
“ We were already on track of thinking of how we could use some of the other features of Samsara for inventory tracking,” Travis said. So the team at Blue Tank & Pump have started using Elite’s public API to build tools that meet their unique needs.
Here’s what they’re already implementing in their operations:
Inventory Discrepancy Reports
When customers have emergencies, you’re focused on getting them the tools they need as quickly as possible – sometimes things get missed in data entry or paperwork.
Travis and the team connected Samsara with Elite to identify when an item isn’t where it’s supposed to be. Using geofences around each of their locations, they’re able to see if an item is at, for example, Store #1 in the system when it’s actually at Store #6. Or maybe it’s supposed to be at Store #1, but it’s on a job site.
They can troubleshoot from there – was a transfer order missed? Did someone just drop it off at the wrong location? When it’s on a job site – was this a replacement that we didn’t document? Was the item stolen?
Whatever the issue ends up being, connected systems bring it to their attention.
Continuation Billing & Contract Updates
Sometimes equipment gets used more (or less) often than a renter predicts. If one of Blue Tank & Pump’s customers rents a pump for an expected number of hours in a month, this integration allows staff to adjust the contract based on their actual usage, which reduces friction at the end of the rental.
Automated Repair and Maintenance Orders
If they’ve got equipment on a job site that’s approaching its maintenance intervals, they can use that data to trigger an Internal Maintenance Order (IMO). If an item isn’t working, they’re able to see engine error codes in Samsara and relay that information to their maintenance team.
Instead of needing to bring every potential tool, or worse, getting to the job site to realize they don’t have the right tool to repair an item…they’re able to send the right people to the right site with the right parts, saving everyone time and money.
The Future of Blue Tank & Pump’s API Integrations
Travis and his team hope to give Blue Tank & Pump’s customers access to see (some of) the things that they see, using Elite’s Consumer Portal functionality. If a customer has an item on rent, they want them to be able to see its location and engine information.
“Long term, if somebody has that piece of equipment on rent, why shouldn’t they be able to see [what we can see]?” said Travis. “So we’re hoping to be able to integrate the two systems and say, ‘Here’s the live location GPS data of that piece of equipment. [Here’s] the fuel level and the DEF level and the the engine codes and diagnostics, the RPMs that it’s running.’”
Blue Tank & Pump’s commitment to using available tools (and building their own tools when needed) is one of the reasons they keep growing. After all, connections make your software and your business stronger.
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