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Our first mobile app: expressly for drivers

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We’re very pleased to announce the new GreenRoad Central mobile app for drivers, which has been in beta since the beginning of April.  The app gives drivers easy access to their GreenRoad performance anytime, anywhere.  Drivers can conveniently access their safety score, idling score, team rank and trip details from the past 7 days, and keep safety top of mind with our quick tips– all with the convenience and elegance of a native smartphone application.  (And yes, it’s disabled while in motion so you don’t have to worry about encouraging distracted driving.)

GreenRoad Central mobile app for drivers runs on both Android and iPhones and is available for free in the app stores as “GreenRoad Central.”  Drivers simply download the app and log in with their GreenRoad account information.  Continue reading →

The story of the GreenRoad safety score

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So – what exactly is the safety score and why is it so important? In short, the safety score is the way we tell a driver, depot or company how safely they are driving. It also enables a manager to compare drivers, vehicles or depots against each other and create some friendly competition. Depending on your safety score, you will be graded as either a green, amber or red driver, with green being low risk and red; high risk.

The safety score is shown as the number of events per 10 hours of driving – so, if you have a score of 20 or less in a ten hour period you will be a green driver, a score of 21 to 50 unsafe maneuvers per ten hours means you will be rated as amber and anything over 51 means you will be classed as a red driver.

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Driver Fatigue: The Tired Tale – Fatigue Management Plan Template

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4. Template for Fatigue Management Plan – Policies and Best Practices:

A Fatigue Management plan is a written, and employee acknowledged, document that provides information on the organizational commitment to combat driver fatigue. The employee acknowledgement demonstrates their commitment to the organizations policies and understanding of their duty to take reasonable care of their safety and health in the workplace.

A fatigue Management Plan includes:

 

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Three Tips for Leveraging Driver Performance as a Marketing Tool

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Do you ever think about fleet driver performance as a marketing tool?  Many GreenRoad customers do.  They realize that their drivers are operating rolling billboards, whether it is a passenger bus, delivery vehicle or even a city-issued sedan.  Here are some marketing ideas that GreenRoad customers are using to help grow their businesses.

 

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The Challenge of The Road Warriors

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The “road warriors” – sales and professional executives driving corporate vehicles – and the companies they work for, have unique vehicle cost challenges. Driving the company vehicle is part of the road warrior job function and the vehicle is also a personal use employment perk. Employee recruitment is in part due to the vehicle configuration and use policies. This creates a challenge for the employer focused on reducing crashes and negligent entrustment exposure and increasing environmental responsibility. Balancing the need to recruit and retaining top sales representatives – while enforcing process and policies that reduce costs associated with crashes and fuel consumption and make substantial improvements to the corporate carbon footprint – is a daunting task. Continue reading →

The Key Elements to Making Change Easy 1

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“The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress” – Charles Kettering

How can you as managers help influence your drivers so they make a permanent change in their behavior? 60% of any change projects fail to achieve their business case because of a lack of buy-in. By engaging and working with your drivers and understanding the key elements involved in change, you can avoid being the 2 out of 5 change projects that fail.

Over the next seven weeks, we will be looking at seven key areas that can help you encourage successful change within your organization.

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Driver Fatigue: The Tired Tale Recommendations

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3. Recommendations:

    • Support a culture of awareness and training about the risks, predictors, and symptoms of driving fatigue. Induction training and ongoing information and training should include health management topics to increase drivers’ awareness and understanding of the impact that their health and lifestyle can have on fatigue.
    • Deliver awareness campaigns of the impact of activities such as a second job, other driving, recreational activities, sport, insufficient sleep, stressful situations, and the consumption of alcohol and other recreational drugs or medication on their well-being and capacity to work effectively. These activities may affect their state of fatigue, especially cumulative fatigue, and capacity to drive safely.

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    As Stubborn as a . . . Twenty Year Driver?

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    Earlier this month, GreenRoad UK hosted a particularly informative User Group at The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.  Attendees included representatives from some of the most progressive fleets in the UK, from bus and coach companies, such as First Group and Newport Transport to service fleets like Iron Mountain and Northern Gas Networks.  Speakers included Adrian Walsh of RoadSafe and Driving for Better Business, who discussed work-related road safety and legislation to Mark Cartwright of the FTA/Van Excellence who advised the crowd on best practice for van operators.  We also heard an inspiring case study from Gary Bell of Bunzl, who as well as obtaining an immediate ROI, stated that GreenRoad is changing the relationship between depot managers and their drivers.  He quoted his colleague Mark Moore:

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    Driver Fatigue: The Tired Tale Continues…

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    2. Transition to Recommendations

    So – what about the percentage of the workforce who spend a significant portion of their working week behind the wheel?  For fleets that don’t have the same regulations and practices of the commercial transportation market some suggestions follow:

    Drivers have a limited ability to predict when they will fall asleep and by continuing to drive when sleepy, they place themselves and others at great risk of a serious crash. Controlling fatigue requires cooperation between employers and employees. There are early warning signs when a person is sleepy – drivers should be trained on these signs and have company supported counter-measures so drivers do not ignored signs when driving.

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    Two Countries Separated by a Common Language?

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    George Bernard Shaw once said that England and America are two countries separated by a common language. With the recent release of the first annual GreenRoad Worldwide Fleet Driver Performance Benchmark report, we might wonder whether it is more the case of two countries separated by a difference in driving performance?

    At least, that is what the initial results would suggest, with drivers in the US having an average safety score of 5 and their UK counterparts having an average score of 8. So what causes the differences? Are UK drivers really worse and what is the data actually telling us?

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