Driver Risk Management System for a Cargo Management Company

A cargo management company with an active fleet focuses on the import and export of goods by sea, land, and air. Even having reliable clients and steady revenue, the company could not control its operating costs which were draining possible profits. The high costs are attributed to excessive idling, fines, and violations from speeding, night driving, and overloading.

The company needs a robust driver scoring system to control driver behavior, which in its tu would prevent reckless driving or let the tracking operator take timely actions should there be any incidents or violations.

Utilize a tracking platform to efficiently manage driver behavior scoring and solve related issues. At the same time, due to the size of the company and specific client projects they had to develop a custom portal – BI Reports and Alerts Dashboard.

The driver scoring system ensures a single perspective for the client’s personnel to deal with driver risk management and vehicle alerts.

BI Reports consolidates telematics data from various notifications coming and presents it in a convenient form for the client to view and take appropriate action.

With the help of BI Alerts, the client can view all the alerts originating from their fleet. This driver risk management system ensures that the alerts are viewed, processed, and recognized, mitigating potential risks. The correct data analysis is ensured with the data from all tracking devices being consolidated. Driver scoring system implementation includes several fundamental steps:

• Clients' onboarding with a few different tracking device types installations.
• Analysis and customizing of the eco-driving data received via SISTL API on BI Reports Dashboard.
• Installation of tracking devices on the remaining trucks.

The company used API to generate BI Reports and Alerts Dashboard reports. Push notifications are utilized to receive alerts.

During the initial stage of the project implementation, truck drivers considered the practice of getting constant calls from the NOC operators invasive. However, as they became accustomed to getting calls, they understood the proper driving behavior to avoid the company making potential losses due to their reckless driving behavior.

When it comes to hardware, the partner used a range of popular devices notable for their cost-effectiveness and high quality. This driver scoring system is planned to be optimized to track fuel consumption for the trucks’ main fuel tanks. The aim is to establish fuel consumption ratios for drivers with harsh driving behavior and those undertaking idling frequently. Driver identification system will also be introduced.

The implemented driver risk management system can provide the client's operators with a single window to control driver behavior and unsafe driving incidents. It can lead to at least 90% of the incident alerts being addressed promptly. This significantly can reduce related risks.

The driver behavior scoring can help identify high-risk drivers who are most likely to cause accidents due to poor or unsafe driving behaviors.

The reduction of idling instances by truck drivers can result in monthly savings.

Now the client's staff can immediately capture and address notifications on unacceptable driving behavior that can result in potential accidents.

The decrease in overspeeding and night driving incidents can lead to savings in monthly road traffic fines.