We talk a lot about driver safety in this issue. Last week at NAFA I&E, there was a great deal of discussion about the industry’s heightened focus on products and techniques to enhance safety.
Pinpointing some of the problems, Mike Sheldrick has penned an interesting piece about Fleetmatics and how they used big data to score driver behavior by state and industry.
In Safety & Risk, Art Liggio of Driving Dynamics alerts us to the frightening statistic that in one year alone more than 5,000 people were killed and nearly a half million people injured in crashes involving some form of distracted driving! The article includes a superb pass-along communication for your drivers.
Jack Hanley at NETS asks, “Are your employees buckling up?” I honestly thought that this was a basic no-brainer, but, alas, I was wrong.
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
