Do you have a company fleet of vehicles? Do you have more than five vehicles? Guess what, you didn’t know it, but you’re in the fleet business. Driver safety via driver training is a critical part of maintaining your fleet.
Like it or not, every part of fleet safety, maintenance, and insurance is part of this commitment. So, where do you start?
Most organizations with fleets purchase telematics for the wealth of information and optimization they provide. However, most fleet and risk managers don’t realize that telematics also comes with inherent liability without proper driver training.
If you have telematics, chances are you have a ton of data related to your vehicles and drivers. Here’s the catch. If you have telematics data that shows that you have a driver that has accidents and/or driving dangerously, and that driver has a significant accident, your organization and possibly the fleet and risk manager can be held liable for having the data and not acting on it, regardless if you had time to review the data or not.
So what’s the solution? Add automated behavior-based driver training to your fleet telematics solution. For less than $.30 a day, Predictive Coach will automatically assign specific driving courses to your drivers based on their actual dangerous driving behaviors. These behaviors include speeding, rapid acceleration, hard cornering, hard braking, and more.
Not only will this solution train and protect your drivers and business, it will also reduce your fleet and risk managers’ workloads. It will also potentially help to maintain your insurance coverage and help shield against run-away lawsuits and nuclear verdicts.
Another benefit is that by creating safer drivers, they are not as hard on your vehicles, resulting in longer serviceable vehicle life and lower preventative maintenance intervals.
A final thought regarding driver training is that it should not be a one-and-done onboarding procedure. Training should be consistent and often to be effective and address your driver’s specific driving issues. Ask us how your fleet can benefit! www.predictivecoach.com
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