Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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commercial carrier journal | april 2017 33 "ey were not leaders, but the emphasis on coaching has made them bet- ter leaders," said Michael Miller, the private fleet's vice president of environ- ment, health and safety. Dean Foods is the eighth-largest food and beverage company in the United States. e decision to implement the DriveCam program happened in 2014 aer a high-profile accident that involved one of its drivers in Houston. e driver, who was distracted while talking on a cell phone with a hands-free Bluetooth headset, ran into a Ford Focus and killed a woman. e company had a policy that drivers not use any devices while in motion. "at was a defining moment," Miller said. "We knew we had to do more around distracted driving." Dean Foods now has installed 5,200 DriveCam units. Miller compared year-over-year results from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the same period in 2016. In that timeframe, the company reduced col- lisions by 15.5 percent, near collisions by 54 percent and event frequency by 43 percent. A better workspace During the conference, Lytx demonstrated a new redesigned version of its online portal, DriveCam Enterprise Workspace. With the redesign, the com- pany has simplified how users go through the workflow. e new design is "all about changing behavior," said Kristin Costas, prod- uct lead. "It's really important that driver behavior can get changed through coaching. rough soware, we can get people to do the things you want them to do." A demonstration of the new product showed numerous improvements to the coaching process, with an overall goal to create "more results with less effort," said Brandon Nixon, chairman and chief executive officer of Lytx. e new DriveCam Enterprise Workspace is built on HTML 5 with a responsive design that scales the interface automatically to any device and screen size. e coachable events and other information are presented using objects called "cards" that show a lot of data in a simple way. A new Driver Profile screen is designed to give managers more context and information to be effective coaches, and it also has new features to track their effectiveness. Costas said that Lytx customers can choose to roll out the new platform in stages and activate any new features that make sense for their businesses. AARON HUFF is Senior Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail ahuff@ccjmagazine.com or call (801) 754-4296. SambaSafety acquires Vigillo, plans unified risk dashboard S ambaSafety, a provider of driver risk management solutions, acquired Vigil- lo, a provider of real-time data for analyzing commercial driver and motor carrier safety performance. Terms were not announced. e companies say the combination of SambaSafety's driver risk management solution and Vigillo's Compliance Safety Accountability Daylight Suite will offer the benefit of driver motor vehicle record monitoring with CSA violation and crash monitoring to help customers manage and track the performance of their drivers in all 50 states and identify and mitigate high-risk driver behavior. – Aaron Huff MiX Telematics expands Vision camera system M iX Telematics, a provider of fleet and mobile asset management solutions, extended its MiX Vision in-cab video solution by adding two more external cameras, allowing customers to monitor and record activity happening around the vehicle for improved driver safety and additional visual evidence to enhance driver behavior, improve safety and address false allegations. e two exterior cameras are dust- and waterproof and complement the in-cab unit, which has a road-facing camera and an in- frared driver- facing camera, allowing for simultaneous capturing of road- and in-cab video footage. – Aaron Huff INTERESTED IN TRUCKING TECHNOLOGY? Scan the barcode or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK to subscribe to the CCJ Technology Weekly e-mail newsletter. MiX Vision's extended high- resolution videos are available on demand, offering visual evi- dence before, during and after an event to provide fleet opera- tors with full transparency. SambaSafety said its acquisi- tion of Vigillo will allow it to provide a comprehensive solution that identifies and mitigates driver risk.