How telematics boosts your fleet management with enhanced driver performance

Your drivers hold a significant amount of responsibility for the safe and optimal operation of your vehicles. Accidents, traffic violations and other risky driver behaviours cost your business in a number of ways –  reputational, financially, operationally and even legally.

The key to creating a safer driving culture is to not only monitor driver behaviour – but to also use the data and insights gained to make your drivers more aware of issues and help coach them to be safer.

EROAD’s telematics solution provides visibility of your drivers and their on-road performance. It increases accountability, facilitates better driving choices at the same time as allowing you to reinforce and reward good driving habits. In effect, it helps nurture safer driving by encouraging positive behavioural change.

It achieves this by bridging the gap between after-the-event management reporting and in-cab, behind-the-wheel influence on driver behaviour.

EROAD’s Leaderboard provides you with an inside view of your fleet based on key driver metrics, enabling you to set up effective driver training and reward programmes.

It also helps you reward great driving by using gamification to encourage proactive driver improvement with a bit of healthy competition. Drivers can be scored on key driver metrics, with rankings showing how your drivers compare with each other and against industry driver benchmarks. You can also benchmark your drivers against their industry peers and compare them to the EROAD community of 100,000+ vehicles.

EROAD helps you keep track of your driver’s hours and also lowers the risk of accidental non-compliance with fatigue and rest time rules.

Speeding isn’t the only driver behaviour that increases the risk of accidents or injury and fleet down-time. With EROAD, you can also monitor seat belt usage, harsh braking and acceleration to help improve driver safety.

Ensuring your drivers are safe on the road can also provide other benefits to your business such as reduced fuel and maintenance costs, less vehicle downtime, reduced fines and penalties, happier drivers and customers!

Installing EROAD in your vehicles may also help reduce your insurance premiums and excess if you can show you are in the top 25% of drivers on EROAD’s Leaderboard.

And in those rare cases where drivers might be falsely accused of speeding or reckless driving, you also can refer back to precise data on EROAD’s platform to confirm the vehicle’s speed and location at the time.

Keeping track of your contractors and partners is also a vital part of your operations. Not only do they represent your business, but they are also a vital part of your supply chain so you need to ensure they are working to your high standards as your drivers and also comply with Chain of Responsibility legislation.

EROAD’s Share provides you with the same visibility of their fleets as you have of your own. This can enhance productivity and your ability to ensure the safety of all drivers working for you. It simplifies health and safety compliance by showing you the location of all vehicles and also how they are being driven. You control which vehicles are shared, for what period, and the driver behaviour reports they appear in.

You can then coordinate resources and simplify dispatch and job management. Being able to share data across your drivers provides better visibility of your operations and helps you deliver a high-quality service to your customers.