How's your driving--if they're watching?
Date: 2001-12-26
If the driver of a company vehicle is misbehaving it affects the company in two ways--insurance rates and bad PR. Two Atlanta-based companies say they achieve big improvements in both departments for clients who sign on for their services. DriverCheck and FleetSafe are amongst the biggest driver monitoring companies in the U.S. and they both guarantee a 10 percent reduction in crashes, or your money back, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Our accident reduction rates typically run about 25 percent," says Hadley Benton, FleetSafe's chief operating officer. Companies serviced by FleetSafe and DriverCheck range from large corporations to mom and pop. They reckon they can be particularly effective with small operations that have a few non-professionals drivers and don't have their own monitoring or training facilities. "According to the [U.S.] Department of Transportation, about 20 percent of the drivers cause 80 percent of the accidents," said DriverCheck manager Wayne Grinstead. "DriverCheck tries to identify the 20 percent that are most likely to cause a collision before it happens."
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