Cameras showing the driver and another facing forward can be the keys to avoiding nuclear verdicts after auto and truck crashes.
By placing cameras in all company vehicles, connected software can alert the company office when a driver appears distracted, sleepy or is texting on his or her cell phone. Distracted driving continues to be a major factor behind crashes, nationwide.
The camera video will let the business and its insurer see if the company driver is actually at fault, which can lead to early settlement efforts before a case goes to trial. The cameras may show what really happened and that the employee was not at fault.
By Dave Bean, Editor, FMW
With new vehicle prices down and dealer inventory up, it seems that a lessening of the most dire ramifications of the pandemic have translated into improved customer purchase process scores, at least according to the recently released J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) Study.
“The improved level of vehicle inventory and the easing of upward pressure on prices are the driving factors in sending sales satisfaction back in a positive direction,” said Chris Sutton, vice president of automotive retail at J.D. Power.
The study also revealed, however, that despite the high profile and improving sales of electric vehicles, they trail conventional fossil-fuel powered vehicles in overall purchase process satisfaction, whether in Mass Market or Premium segments.
By Tod Trousdell, Fleet Marketing Consultant and Partner/RobertsTrousdell Communications
The Work Fleet Forum, a live event unlike any other in our field, just concluded its tenth annual program, its first Forum in Las Vegas, with a record number of fleet leaders and suppliers.
Besides education and networking, the Work Fleet Forum is unique in how it allows fleet managers to source their product and service needs in one visit. Instead of an expo, buyers can do deep-dives with suppliers in private, mutually-arranged meetings, without distractions.
Bill Bishop, SVP of Sales and Marketing at FLD, said the Forum gives them the best opportunity anywhere for guaranteed interactions with qualified buyers, and it has brought them some of their best accounts in the years they’ve been coming.
My own thoughts? Perhaps more than anything, I was impressed with the interactive nature of Work Fleet Forum and the camaraderie that blossomed between fleet leaders and service providers.
Motus, a provider of vehicle reimbursement and risk mitigation solutions for businesses that rely on employees using their personal vehicles for work, announced the latest expansion of its platform.
Navigator is an innovative new interface that helps administrators more easily and proactively manage multiple programs to get the best results.
Motus gives companies visibility and control over all their vehicle reimbursements and risks while improving employee satisfaction by offering the broadest range of tax advantaged reimbursement programs.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigation into a multivehicle collision in North Las Vegas, Nevada, last year that resulted in nine fatalities has led the board to recommend a requirement for intelligent speed assistance technology in all new cars.
Intelligent speed assistance technology, or ISA, uses a car’s GPS location compared with a database of posted speed limits and its onboard cameras to help ensure safe and legal speeds.
“This crash is the latest in a long line of tragedies we’ve investigated where speeding and impairment led to catastrophe, but it doesn’t have to be this way,” said NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy.