Aggressive driving and the accidents that result are significant contributors to the cost of operation of a mixer fleet.

In addition to the high direct repair costs involved in an accident, other cost factors attributable to aggressive driving include:

• Higher Insurance Rates
• Increased Fuel Use
• Tire and Maintenance Costs
• Lost Production Resulting from Injuries

Driver and vehicle safety are major issues facing the ready mix industry today. With your fleet on the road each day, it is difficult to detect unsafe driving practices until an accident or traffic violation occurs. You need a reliable tool that enables you to discover and correct poor driving behavior before it becomes a serious problem.

WHAT'S THE SOLUTION?
Trimble Mobile Solutions, the leading provider of mobile resource management solutions for the ready mix industry, understands the problem of driver safety and how it affects your business operations. The patented DriveSafe solution provides insight into individual driver behavior by providing indicators of aggressive driving that allows managers to monitor and compare driving behavior over time.

WHAT DOES DRIVESAFE DO?
Measures the accelerations exerted on the truck during various driving maneuvers such as turns, starts, and stops.

• Factors the loaded or unloaded status in measuring turns.
• Measures average vehicle speed via high resolution GPS positioning.
• Calculates a score for each maneuver.
• Reports scores for individual drivers as well as a composite score.
• Compares individual scores to the average scores for the fleet.

The Driver Scorecard
DriveSafe contains averages of data collected both when the truck is loaded and when it is returning to the plant. Categories include turns, starts, stops, and speeding. Scores are generated for each category with 100 being the average for the fleet. A score of 108, for example, would indicate more aggressive driving than average.

Score Weighting - DriveSafe can be configured to best suit your individual needs by allowing the user to assign a Score Weighting value to vehicle speed and to each type of maneuver. For example, the score for loaded turns may be weighted much more heavily than for unloaded starts.

DriveSafe Reports - viewed over an extended period of time, are excellent tools for supervisors to use in conducting targeted driver training and counseling programs. There are two principal reports:

• A tabular Fleet Report provides scores of various maneuvers plus an overall composite score for each truck
• A Fleet Chart graphically compares the composite scores for each truck These reports can be generated at any time and users may select a date range for the report as well as which vehicles are to be included in the report.

DEPLOYING DRIVESAFE
DriveSafe is an add-on feature for customers using the TrimView™ RM or TrimView™ AGG mobile resource management solution. The hardware, already installed in the vehicle, is automatically configured over the air. Data is typically collected for at least two weeks prior to generating reports. For ease of use, reports are available from the TrimView reporting menu.

In many cases, drivers just need to be reminded about certain elements of their driving behavior. In other cases, drivers need to be trained to significantly alter their driving style when the truck is loaded, in order to avoid potential rollover situations. Either way, the DriveSafe system is the tool you need to make your fleet safer and to lower operating costs.