How to Safely Manage a Fleet of Drivers

When you are managing a fleet of drivers, you have no responsibilities that are more important than ensuring that they are as safe as possible. There are several different ways of doing this, but we are going to be taking a closer look at a few of them right here and now. This way, you can work out the ways in which you can look after your own fleet that little bit better. 

Provide Driver Safety Courses and Training

One of the easiest ways that you are going to be able to provide driver safety courses and training is via the online world. This means that you can ensure everybody is fully up to date in all the latest safety practices and policies. To begin with, you can train fleet drivers virtually when they are first coming on board with your company. In this way, you can get them up to speed as quickly as possible. Along the way while they are working as part of your company and your fleet, there is no doubt that regular refresher courses should be provided to keep them fully engaged and up to date. 

Give Better Views of the Road 

When you are driving a larger vehicle like a truck, you will already be aware that the views are more restricted, and it is much more challenging to get a full view of the road around you. Therefore, you certainly need to do everything that you can in terms of adding in cameras around the truck to ensure that as many of these blind spots as possible are properly visible. Otherwise, you can easily end up in a situation in which difficult manoeuvres like reversing are not made as easy as they possibly can be. 

Keep Track of Driver Performance 

In days gone by, it would have been simply impossible to try and work out what your drivers were doing, and you would never have really been able to get a full sense of what was going on. However, driver performance is much easier to monitor with the latest tech that is out at the moment. Without a doubt, it is important to keep on top of driver performance. Not only can you identify if there are any drivers in there that are simply not right for your fleet, but you can also find out if there are any common problems that are coming up again and again that you can step in and do something about. 

Provide Early Warning or Take Action 

There is also the tech that is making a big difference in providing early warnings such as a lane departure system. Not only this, but there is also the tech such as automatic braking, which can really help in ensuring that an accident does not occur on the road. A better managed fleet with tech such as Curbwaste can also help to improve efficiency overall.

Create a Driver Safety Policy

You need to make sure that you have your driver safety policy down in writing. This way, you have a document that you can keep referring back to time and time again. You should aim to make this as comprehensive as possible and include all the different aspects of driver safety that you can think of. Not only this, but you should also get the input of your drivers as well. They can tell you so much more from their perspective which can all prove to be useful. 

Stay on Top of Fleet Maintenance 

As far as possible, you want to prevent the vehicles themselves from causing any accidents at all. With this in mind, you certainly need to make sure that fleet maintenance is made a priority. Otherwise, you can easily end up in a situation in which they do not pass the highest level of safety standards. Not only this, but a safer vehicle tends to be a more efficient one. Also, this will prevent any legal ramifications from causing any problems further down the line. 

Keep the Messaging Clear 

Your final step is to simply keep repeating the message again and again that fleet safety is one of your number one priorities and something that you are not going to let slip. If the message is not continually reinforced, it can lead to a situation in which people start to become complacent, which is the last thing that you want to happen and can cause many problems.  

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