Driver of Fatal Crash Gets Prison, Employer Charged with Negligence
A Canadian truck driver with three weeks of training has been sentenced to 8 years after he caused a crash that killed 16 people traveling on a hockey team's bus.
Investigators inspecting his paper log found he committed 70 violations of federal and provincial trucking violations in 11 days leading up the crash.
The trucker's former employer has been charged and accused of failing to maintain driver logs, not monitoring driver safety compliance and having more than one daily log on a given day.
Read the article at Freight Waves.
SuperVision: The State of Driver Monitoring
Minimizing the effects of or removing risky drivers from a fleet is the highest value a fleet can gain from its safety program, not only because it protects lives, but goes directly to protecting a company’s bottom line.
The state of driver monitoring is divided into two broad camps: Fleets that perform MVR monitoring the “old way” and fleets that perform MVR monitoring the “new way”.
In this white paper…
- The numerous advantages of the “new way” of monitoring
- MVRs and the role of the Fleet Manager
- The average cost of a car crash [Infographic]
- Comparison of costs with and without monitoring program [infographic]
Microsoft is the Leader in the Connected-Car Platform Space
Autonomy is coming fast.
The information in connected-car platforms will be the backbone of autonomy, with Microsoft being the leader in that space.
Microsoft is quietly working behind the scenes to build the connected-car platform of choice in the industry. Renault Nissan became the first to join in January 2017. Volkswagen in October 2018. Microsoft has cloud solutions relationships with Volvo, BMW, Toyota and Ford.
Read the article at Forbes.
It May Be Time to ‘Supercharge’ Your Team
By Dr. Jan Ferri-Reed
Former NFL star quarterback and NASCAR team owner Roger Staubach once said, “I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I have learned that if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.”
That philosophy certainly applies to your employee and management teams no less than it does to a NASCAR race team.
How do your supervisors and employees measure up? Do they actually function as a team? Do they encourage and support each other when the chips are down? Do they clearly understand each other’s role and function? Most importantly, do they share the goal of succeeding together?
NAFA’s CAFM U Event to Provide All-Inclusive Instruction and Certification Testing in April 2019
NAFA’s CAFM U offers fleet managers unmatched value, as well as a unique, inclusive opportunity to learn and advance their careers.
For fleet professionals seeking to earn the industry’s top designations of excellence, the Certified Automotive Fleet Specialist (CAFS) and Certified Automotive Fleet Manager (CAFM) certifications, NAFA Fleet Management Association has developed a concept to help compress the process of obtaining these marks – while also having full access to NAFA’s vast Institute & Expo fleet event.
NAFA’s CAFM U, a fleet-focused “university-style” style event, will be held April 13 through 18, 2019, in conjunction with NAFA’s Institute & Expo, in Louisville, Ky. This concentrated opportunity lets attendees learn and take certification exams – twice – to increase chances to either start or complete the process toward earning CAFM or CAFS.
