(Newswire.net — January 3, 2022) —
Did you know that around 500,000 trucking accidents take place every year in the United States causing around 5000 deaths? 68% of these accidents didn’t take place in cities but rural areas. Perhaps drivers tend to be laxer or drive faster there.
Interestingly, a majority of the accidents take place when the weather is clear and the roads are dry (71%).
All this tells you that as a business owner tracking your fleet’s driver behavior is becoming even more crucial day by day. The more you can track fleet driving behavior, the more you can reprimand or train those drivers whose driving is becoming out of hand or too lackadaisical.
Let’s read on to see some ways to monitor commercial driving behavior.
Ride Shotgun without Ever Riding Shotgun
The great thing about using commercial fleet GPS trackers is that you can keep an eye on your commercial drivers. This is without ever being in the vehicle with them. And because they are aware that you are watching them, albeit virtually, they are more likely to keep their driving behavior optimized.
The GPS tracker will give you detailed reports on different driving behaviors. Things like braking hard, speeding, harsh cornering, and quick starts can be tracked.
You can also alert the driver to such behaviors. And thus reduce the risk of your driver ending up in some dangerous automobile accident with an innocent civilian.
You can use trucker tracking devices to help your drivers avoid traffic jams and get them on faster routes to clients. You can also protect them from other unfortunate driving circumstances, like landslides, car accidents, and more.
Monitor Commercial Drivers and Hand Out Driving Report Cards
Using GPS tracking for trucks, you can gamify the whole safe driving experience for your entire fleet. You can hand out report cards to each of the commercial drivers. These can be used to compare and contrast drivers’ behaviors and thus, create a sort of safe driving competition among your drivers.
You could also use these report cards to warn or chastize drivers who use dangerous driving tactics. By ensuring that your commercial driving fleet is driving safely, you can also reduce fuel costs. And reduce the need for maintenance on your commercial fleet vehicles.
All this will help you reduce costs, and reduce time spent in courts fighting legal battles against aggrieved parties.
Driver Behavior Can Vary Widely if Not Tracked Consistently
Your commercial drivers are not robots. And as such driver behavior will vary widely from day to day and season to season. But with fleet driver tracking, you can help your drivers reduce bad driving behaviors and improve their good driving tactics.
The more your fleet driving behavior improves, the more your overall business profitability will improve as well.
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