SambaSafety vs. InformData
Discover how SambaSafety’s purpose-built platform ensures you never miss a violation, incident, or license status change that could put your business at risk.
One Number That Tells a Big Story
Transportation incidents are the leading cause of workplace fatalities in the U.S. and require a purpose-built platform with proven outcomes. SambaSafety has been refining continuous monitoring for over 25 years, with evidence-based solutions that reduce auto crashes by up to 14% in the first year. Our integrated training platform, 3,000+ data sources, and 10B+ annual telematics data points give fleets the complete picture and the tools to act on it.
SambaSafety's Approach
SambaSafety’s Risk Index delivers a holistic, normalized score by aggregating diverse data sources—MVRs, CSA metrics, telematics behaviors, claims history, and training activity—into a single benchmark for driver risk. Delivered continuously, this score is built to your priorities and data sources to emphasize configurability, real-time updates, and actionable insights that enable fleets to proactively intervene with targeted training and compliance measures.
InformData's Approach
While InformData can now deliver basic MVR alerts, its solution lacks the depth of data, telematics integration, predictive analytics, and evidence-based training workflows that define modern fleet safety programs.
The Differences Between SambaSafety and InformData
Your fleet risk managers should have a complete picture of risk and the resources to act on it.
Range of Driver Risk Intelligence
SAMBASAFETY
Integrates CSA data with MVR, telematics, and license monitoring to offer the industry’s most comprehensive view of driver risk. Claims data can also be imported into driver scorecards. Processes 10B+ telematics data points annually from over 100 telematics service provider integrations.
Informdata
Limited to MVR and basic violation monitoring. No telematics, CSA, or claims integration—leaving fleets blind to behavioral risk factors like distracted driving, harsh braking, and speeding that directly influence losses. SambaSafety provides MVR data to over 90% of background screeners, including InformData's competitors, making us the trusted source even screeners rely on.
Coverage and Speed
Integrated with 3,000+ data sources, including telematics integrations and direct connections to local courts nationwide in the US and Canada. Automated, near real-time data delivery ensures fleets get actionable alerts without delay.
Manual court research processes supplement their database searches in 50+ counties without direct online access. While thorough for background screening compliance, this manual component introduces delays—a critical gap when transportation incidents unfold in hours, not days.
Alert intelligence & Prioritization
Contextualized alerts with severity indicators and risk prioritization. Only displays events that require attention, eliminating alert overload from thousands of daily safety events. Standardized violation codes across all 50 U.S. states and normalized telematics data enable accurate risk comparison and faster decision-making.
Raw alert data without risk context or prioritization.
Maturity of Scoring capability
SambaSafety’s Risk Index has helped fleet managers track and benchmark risk across numerous data sources since the introduction of risk scoring in 2019.
Risk scoring based on violation frequency and severity was introduced for the first time in late 2025—a capability SambaSafety has been perfecting for over six years. Their scoring lacks the configurability, telematics inputs, and predictive intelligence that fleet safety managers need.
Driver Monitoring coverage
Monitors 5M+ drivers with proven reliability. Traces its MVR lineage to American Driving Records, a pioneer in monitoring going back to the 1980s.
Monthly or better cadence for continuous monitoring across all 50 states and 13 Canadian provinces.
Entered the driver monitoring space in 2020. While they cover 97% of the US population, their core expertise remains in background screening for CRAs—not fleet safety management.
Industry Expertise & Thought Leadership
We share our deep expertise in fleet safety management through quarterly webinars and the release of multiple free, data-backed research reports on roadway risk and technology each year.
Short-form blog content and occasional webinars.
Platform Experience & Reporting
The SambaSafety Risk Cloud offers a comprehensive, highly configurable view of risk at the driver and company level, optimized for ease of use. Purpose-built for fleet safety managers and risk leaders with alert-to-action workflows, integrated training assignments, audit-ready documentation, and streamlined e-signature enrollment—not just data visibility.
Designed for API-based integrations with background screening companies, not direct fleet management workflows. No training integration, no action-based workflows or fleet-specific user experience. This leaves safety leaders to build their own processes around the data.
Ability to act on insights
Offers a full-suite driver training solution, with alert-triggered assignment workflows. Managers can take targeted action immediately by assigning defensive driving courses, acknowledging policies, or tracking coaching conversations, all from the driver’s profile.
No driver training solution available. Fleets receive alerts but lack a clear path to intervention, forcing risk managers to put together external training vendors and manual follow-up processes.
Background Screening vs. Fleet Safety: Understanding the Difference
InformData is a provider of criminal and financial background data to consumer reporting agencies (CRAs). SambaSafety is the expert in driving risk. We provide MVR and driving data to over 90% of background screeners, including InformData's competitors, and work directly with fleets to proactively reduce transportation risk through continuous monitoring, telematics integration, and training workflows. If your priority is mitigating the leading cause of workplace fatalities, you need a solution created for that mission—not a background screening tool adapted for fleet use.
Trusted by Over 15,000 Fleets
With over 5 million monitored drivers and counting, there’s a reason why we’re ranked best for monitoring solutions among fleets.
A Proactive Approach to Driver Risk Builds Results
Companies that monitor with SambaSafety often experience:
32%
reduction in monthly violations within 12 months
14%
reduction in crashes within the first 12 months
77%
violation reduction after 12 months of using monitoring and training