Fleet and Driver Safety

Improving and investing in the safety of your employees and assets.

Protecting your fleet drivers from injury and helping to build culture of safety is a top priority for Onward. Even with the best safety policies and training programs in place, your fleet’s safety record is greatly impacted by what your drivers do behind the wheel. By working with and getting to know your drivers, you can monitor key fleet metrics through our telematics platform.

With safety dashboard reports, you can establish a safety profile on each driver and develop programs and policies to increase safety awareness. By creating custom alerts, you will be notified via email or text message when a violation occurs so you can act. By monitoring specific events, such as rapid acceleration/deceleration and excessive speed, you can easily spot certain trends that may compromise driver safety.

Two important responsibilities when ensuring safety is driver training and maintained vehicles. Telematics adds many benefits that reduce costs and increase safety. Numerous fleets have started creating a safety program to address specific problems and risky driving behaviors. Driver Coaching has shown to be effective but only when combined with telematic system data and dash cam footage.

When it comes to measuring the risk of operating and managing fleet vehicles, many variables come into play. Navigating exposures and controlling loss can be a challenge for most, if not all, businesses. Unfortunately, distracted driving, hard braking and very similar issues are not only common but consistently lead to accidents and litigation. In-vehicle cameras can offer a variety of benefits to not only the safety of a fleet but it’s efficiencies and productivity as well.

Accidents

This is where dash cams can be a huge benefit for businesses managing fleet vehicles. Being able to capture real-time footage of the driver and the road can offer an unbiased version of the events that took place, which is usually the most time consuming part of investigating an after-crash scenario. Let the dash cam footage be the witness your company may need to prevent any costly litigations.

Driver Habits

Since you can’t be with your driver at every turn, dash cams allow organizations to pull data, along with video, to establish and manage any unsafe driving behaviors. Harsh braking and acceleration, lane drifting, rolling stops and speeding can all be alerted to help identify areas for drivers that may need additional training. By working with drivers to observe and address unsafe behaviors, businesses can be more proactive and strategic in their approach to driver training.

Compliance

Streamline and simplify your fleet compliance.

Whether you are a small or large company, you can use telematics to create a safer and efficient fleet. Managers can access data on driver behaviors, maintenance requirements, and help stay on top of compliance with telematics today. Regardless of the vehicle size, every time it takes to the road, there are numerous rules and regulations set by the Department of Transportation (DOT) that need to be followed. By utilizing our services at Onward, navigating the roads and the regulations becomes a much less daunting task.

Onward is here to help you streamline and simplify your compliance management. We are familiar with DOT regulations and experienced with maintaining compliance. Our solutions will allow you to meet regulatory requirements, improve safety accountability and consist of Driver Vehicle Inspection Reporting (DVIR) and ELD which ensures compliance for Hours of Service (HOS).

DOT regulations themselves span everywhere from hours of services to licenses and permits to vehicle inspections. Making sure that you are following all DOT regulations is an ongoing, labor-intensive task that includes record keeping, random drug and alcohol tests, cargo securement, etc. Failure to comply can result in hefty fines and potentially business closure.

However, utilizing a fleet management partner while leveraging technology takes the guesswork and labor out of your hands. Our expertise can help your business to focus on what it does best, while offering the peace of mind that comes with assured compliance.

Sustainability

Striving to do the right thing and make positive impacts in the environment.

We can’t manage what we don’t measure, and when it comes to sustainability, we utilize the use of technology to optimize the ability for fleets to go green. With telematics we adopt a data-driven approach to not only reduce inefficiencies but save on operational spend overall. Optimizing your telematics strategy can help move your fleet toward sustainability without completely upturning your business operations.

Data Integration

Data integration allows you to connect the dots across all your data, delivering one holistic view of all the factors that affect your asset’s Total Cost of Ownership “TCO”. In 2020, asset management solutions were already on the rise. In 2021, expect more fleet managers to adopt these platforms, which integrate data from all your various streams—GPS, telematics, maintenance and beyond—so that you can identify opportunities to enhance your fleet’s performance in the moment, not during your end-of-year planning meetings.

Fuel Management

Cutting down fuel consumption is the easiest way to lower your fleet’s carbon emissions. How can that be achieved? Utilizing a combination of hardware and software, accurately transmitting real-time fuel data. Not only being able to have insight into fuel usage, idling time and refill events, but also monitoring and identifying abnormalities and even fraud helps reduce spend.

Route Optimization

Inefficient route optimization has long been a challenge for business’ trying to keep costs low and efficiency high. Less time on the road means less emissions, but that’s not all. Optimizing the route of each driver can calculate routes to find the most efficient way not only reducing fuel spend but also reducing driving hours, lowering the overall operational spend.

Alerts

Using a telematics platform is key to monitoring driver behavior and creating sustainable driving habits. Since you can’t be with your drivers at every turn, you can identify idling times, harsh-braking and excessive speeding to name a few. With implementing a telematics strategy, you can ensure to catch any early stages of bad habits quickly, rather than potentially waiting until it becomes a much bigger issue.