7 Smart Uses for Video Telematics in Fleet Operations
May 25, 2021
May 25, 2021
A critical component of a successful transportation or field services business is fleet safety. Whether your business is delivering packages across the country, transporting essential goods, or shuttling passengers back and forth, everything you do to enhance safety will protect people and improve your company's performance in the long run.
You can prevent accidents and ensure your drivers' safety with a video telematics system. Video telematics combines telecommunications and informatics technologies. Dash cams capture driver behavior and external road conditions. Video footage and video telematics data are transmitted over the telecommunications network to fleet managers and other team members who focus on driver safety.
Many leading companies are using video telematics solutions. Titan Freight Systems, Veriha Trucking, and Halvor Lines attest to the improvement in their safety statistics and fleet scores from using telematics devices. Many more transportation companies are catching up by implementing video telematics systems.
A good video telematics solution can help a fleet company see the whole picture around any incident. The system captures accidents in real time. Dash cams inside and outside each vehicle ensure companies have all the facts they need to counter false claims and enhance their safety programs.
Here's how your drivers and fleet managers can get the most out of video telematics.
Video telematics solutions provide data-based feedback and driver coaching tools that can motivate your drivers to stick around. Telematics devices gather video footage and offer analysis of driver behavior as it happens. Using telematics data, the system can tell your fleet managers whether your drivers are following rules consistently or slipping into common mistakes and risky behaviors. Video telematics insights can also help recognize and reward good driving practices, which can boost driver retention. One transportation company used video telematics to improve driver retention 15 percent year over year.
The potential to save money on insurance is one of the biggest benefits of using a video telematics system. When you can provide visual evidence that your driver was not at fault, you'll end up paying a lower fee in an insurance claim. There's also evidence that fleets can prevent accidents and reduce claims by using video telematics. In fact, a premium transportation and expedite company reduced claims by 82 percent in two years after going live. Meanwhile, a transportation company reduced its vehicle insurance costs by 15 percent with video telematics.
Video telematics systems are designed to encourage safe driving, which benefits your entire fleet and everyone else on the road. In-cab alerts contribute to driver safety by giving drivers the real-time information they need to perform better. Over time, drivers develop safer habits, resulting in fewer incidents. One logistics company decreased severe alerts by 47 percent within a year of implementing video telematics.
Vehicle maintenance keeps your fleet operations running smoothly and protects your drivers in the long run. You can use the data-gathering capability of video telematics to verify that your team has performed all necessary vehicle diagnostics and maintenance checks on each of your fleet vehicles. You can also have your video telematics system analyze data directly from the engine to see what other maintenance each vehicle needs.
High-definition video footage is the first proof accident investigators want to examine as they try to determine which party is liable. The dash cams in a video telematics solution provide video evidence that can influence the investigator's decision and exonerate your fleet drivers. With objective proof that shows incidents from your driver's perspective, you can expose false claims much more quickly and easily. One logistics provider exonerated a driver in just 20 minutes.
Video telematics provides proof of service that settles disputes fast. When customers question delivery times, package condition, or driver conduct, you have video evidence showing exactly what happened. If a customer claims a package arrived damaged or never showed up, review the footage to verify the delivery. This transparency builds trust and shuts down false complaints.
Video telematics monitoring can help your entire fleet improve safety and enhance driver behavior. Drivers can see in real time how they're improving. Fleet managers can offer more fruitful driver coaching sessions because they have a complete perspective on driver performance. Video telematics highlights specific achievements for each driver, enabling you to broadcast these results across your fleet in ways that boost driver morale and enhance your safety programs.
Video telematics can help your drivers and fleet managers focus on safety. This technology captures video and creates an objective feedback system that makes all your driver training programs and driver coaching sessions more productive.
If you're looking for the best video telematics solution, check out what Netradyne Driver•i has to offer. The system is designed to enhance driver performance and increase road safety. Book a demo to find out how you can benefit from commercial fleet telematics today.
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