How Positive Coaching Can Improve Fleet Driver Safety
Driver Management June 29, 2021 0

How Positive Coaching Can Improve Fleet Driver Safety

How Positive Coaching Can Improve Fleet Driver Safety

Drivers have a difficult job. They spend hours of their day navigating traffic and dealing with other drivers while focusing on arriving at their destination quickly and safely. The pressures of job productivity can lead to bad driving habits like speeding, hard braking, and aggressive acceleration and potentially cause accidents. Luckily fleets have tools that can help identify these bad driving habits and address them. Video telematics systems can monitor the vehicle, and the driver and systems like the GPS Trackit solution can assign a score to evaluate how a driver is performing. Read More

How to Simplify Fleet Maintenance and Repair Records
Fleet Management June 24, 2021 0

How to Simplify Fleet Maintenance and Repair Records

How to Reduce Fleet Maintenance Problems

Your job as a fleet manager or fleet owner is complex because you have to manage preventive maintenance, service history, multiple service dates, manufacturer recalls and track the costs of many vehicles in your fleet. This work is more complicated when the data is spread across multiple systems, spreadsheets and paper documents.

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How Aggressive Driving Impacts Fleet Fuel Costs
Fleet Management June 10, 2021 0

How Aggressive Driving Impacts Fleet Fuel Costs

Fuel is one of the most expensive regular costs that businesses have to deal with. The American Transportation Research Institute found that fuel costs were the second-highest cost to trucking fleets behind only driver wages, making up as much as 24% of regular operating costs. Fuel prices can be volatile and subject to sudden increases based on factors as unpredictable as international politics, the weather, or even cyber warfare. These factors make it difficult for fleets to predict their impact.

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The Cost of Unplanned Fleet Maintenance: What You Need to Know
Fleet Management June 9, 2021 0

The Cost of Unplanned Fleet Maintenance: What You Need to Know

When your fleet vehicles break down during service, the cost of unplanned fleet maintenance can add up—fast. There are the hard costs associated with the vehicle repairs. There are wages to pay. Plus the cost of delayed service or shipments to your customers while you wait for your out-of-service vehicle to be repaired.

Did you know that a repair performed at an outside location as opposed to an in-house shop can make maintenance costs up to 40% higher?

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Negative Impacts of Rear-End Crashes for Truck Fleets
Fleet Management, Safety & Security June 4, 2021 0

Negative Impacts of Rear-End Crashes for Truck Fleets

In 2019, there were approximately 5 million people involved in motor vehicle crashes that resulted in injury, a number that has stayed mostly consistent over the last five years, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The data looked at varying degrees of injury but did not include fatalities. The data showed rear-end collisions made up the most significant portion of all the injuries overall, which is also one of the most common accident types for fleets.
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