A top concern for businesses that depend on a fleet of vehicles is the cutting of fuel spend. Fuel costs remain one of the higher expenses of fleet management.
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One thing you've been perhaps wanting to include in your ongoing fleet management plan is a video safety program. While these become very beneficial in educating and guiding your drivers, not all of these programs are created equal.
Topics: Fleet Safety, Fleet Management, Fleet Tracking
Your company's success hinges upon your ability to ensure that your customers receive prompt personal service from your sales representatives and service technicians. If your sales and service staff drive fleet vehicles on a regular basis, you can help ensure prompt service by developing an effective fleet safety program.
Topics: Fleet Safety
Tire maintenance is important for the safety of your drivers, as well as your fleet. Though you should be keeping an eye on them regularly, at the very least, you should complete monthly inspections to ensure that your tires are safe.
Topics: Fleet Safety, Fleet Maintenance
Being a driver on the road is never easy. Not only are you dealing with the various road conditions (which can change quickly depending on the weather), you may have to struggle with traffic.
Topics: Fleet Safety
When you tell people that you're a professional driver or that you manage a fleet of service vehicles, almost everyone will assume you mean during the day. This is only fair, night work only makes up about three percent of the workforce, but the vast majority of third shift workers do so in nice, safe, brightly lit environments like gas stations, 24 hour retail, construction.
Topics: Fleet Safety
While most people spend their days in office, warehouses, retail stores, or working from home, a fleet driver's office is their car and their workplace is the road. Unlike a nice safe office that is the same day to day, the road isn't the same from minute to minute or even second to second.
Topics: Fleet Safety, Fleet Management
You may have heard the disturbing statistics of distracted driving and accidents, and how it now ranks right up there with drunk driving and speeding. This is one of the top causes of traffic fatalities and serious injuries on the road.
Topics: Fleet Safety
Improving fleet safety is important for business when you have a company fleet because the costs of driver misbehavior can send your expenses through the ceiling. Risky driving accounts for around 90 percent of car accidents and identifying these behaviors and weeding them out can make for fewer accidents on the road.
Topics: Fleet Safety
CSA stands for compliance, safety and accountability. The scoring happens as a result of an FMCSA initiative intended to improve the safety, fatalities, crashes and injuries for all interstate carriers who have a US DOT number. However,CSA scores aren't made public to everyone, which clouds the details on how it truly impacts your fleet. What can you do to improve your score?
Topics: Fleet Safety
