Fleet Tracking Devices
Use Telematics to Avoid Negative Entrustment
Monitor commercial fleet compliance to safety policies with telematics
Stanley is a risk manager for a large commercial insurer. He is tasked with ensuring that his accounts hire qualified drivers and have safety policies in place to keep loss risks low. Once at an industry convention he heard about a term referred to as negligent entrustment. This refers to the use of unqualified or untrained drivers to operate a company vehicle. Legal penalties for accidents are very high in these cases. In one case, the court fined a company a staggering…
$15 Million Dollars
due to an accident caused by a driver that was deemed as unqualified to operate a company vehicle.
He also learned that telematics systems can help mitigate negative entrustment risks by the continuous monitoring of drivers’ compliance to fleet safety policies.
Telematics helps risk managers…
Identify unsafe drivers
The driver safety scorecard identifies unsafe and safe drivers so fleets can coach their unsafe drivers and reward their safest drivers in order to promote a safety culture.
Identify high risk drivers
The Artificial-Intelligence powered Crash Risk report by FieldLogix uses driving behavior and weather forecasts to predict the short-term likelihood that drivers would be involved in accidents. This is used to coach or sideline high risk drivers to reduce the risk of accidents
Identify distracted drivers
Dash cameras are used to identify distracted driving events such as cell phone use, eating & drinking, and smoking. Drivers are alerted when these events occur and fleet managers can review the video to coach the drivers.
Improve in-cab safety
The cameras alert drivers when they are not using seatbelts and when they appear to be fatigued while driving. This reduces the likelihood that drivers would be involved in severe accidents.
Improve vehicle safety
The vehicle inspection app is used by drivers to perform pre-trip and post-trip vehicle inspections to identify potential vehicle safety hazards. This immediately brings any vehicle safety issues to the attention of fleet managers so they can repair them in a timely manner.
Identify staged accidents
Dash cameras store video from collisions to give fleets the ability to identify staged accidents and reduce at-fault insurance claims.
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