Fleet Driver Risk Management

The MVS-XD is a basic Driver Training Device (DTD), a new innovative integration of  technologies adapted to benefit those companies, districts and municipalities operating large fleets of vehicles with considerable assets at risk. Use of this product can offer substantial reduction in driver risk when drivers abide the active DTD feature with proper management oversight. 

What can the MVS-XD do for your fleet and your company?

Active Fleet Driver Safety Training Program Benefits                       

• Deter & document dangerous driving behaviors while there is time to change them
• Establish a safety standard that promotes employee safety on the roads
• Safer drivers reduce accident claims saving company funds & wasted time 
• Safer drivers save lives, reduce company expenses & reduce insurance costs fleet wide
  
  

Highlight Dangerous Driving Behaviors Before An Accident

• Documents what happens in front of vehicle,
  can document head on collisions, or following too closely
• Documents Speeding ,
  GPS On Screen Mapping shows you what road they are on and speed limit signs
• Documents Running Red Lights & Stop Signs,
  are they really stopping or just rolling on through
• Documents Failure to Stop At Railroad Crossings,
  can verify if crossing arms were not working in an accident
• Documents Hard Braking
  through use of "G" sensors that may indicate they are distracted while driving
• Documents  Dangerous Turns
  (high speeds that can cause loss of control and rollover of vehicle)
• Documents Vehicle Impacts For Accident Claim Disputes
  (both front rear or side impact)
• Documents Accident Data for replay in court
  (audio, video GPS & G sensor data can be used in proceedings)
• Documents Accidents Even If Driver Does Not
  (some accidents may seem minor until charges for hit & run) 
  
  
  

Oversight To Insure Company Policy & Risk Prevention

• Does the driver pickup hitchhikers?
• Does the driver use the company vehicle for non-company work?
• Did the driver stay on route or wander all over the place?
• Did the driver make personal trips in the vehicle?
• Was the vehicle used on weekends for unauthorized trips?
• Where the vehicle is parked during the day and nights?

Too often  large fleets suffer great losses in damaged product, additional labor, warranty claims, accidents or efficiency due to poorly trained, disinterested or dangerous drivers. Our goal is to provide an active and verifiable mechanism that can actively encourage borderline drivers to be much safer, more conscious of their driving behaviors and a long term asset to their company, district or municipality. It is our hope that with the support and oversight of management, most  drivers who exhibit dangerous or apathetic driving behaviors can be polished by sufficient education and DTD reminders  to the best interest of safe driving in mind.

There will  be those few, who are incapable or unwilling to refrain from their potentially dangerous driving behaviors,  learn how to become a safer or more efficient driver and will continue to become a potential safety hazard to others who share the roads with them. They are usually easily identified with any competent training program and dealt with from a management level through reassessment of job related skills, reassignment of job tasks or elimination.

The clear and present threat to both safe driving is the driver who passes the routine screening process, drives in a responsible, safe manor to pass the tests, then once freedom is at hand,  he is in complete control over his actions with no meddling instructor sitting by their side, no management looking over their shoulder, now they proceed to operate their company vehicles any way they choose and often in direct violation of;  company policy, company safety standards and often in violation of common sense or state law.

In these cases the In Vehicle Monitoring System (IVMS) will document their problems, their violations in law or company guidelines, will provide active reminders that they are operating in a potentially unsafe manor and against the specific guidelines set by their fleet managers or administration. In these hopefully rare cases the continuous recording,  camera video record from the Accident Data Recorder (ADR), the GPS mapping, the 3-axis "G" sensors in the  will provide the same recorded evidence in order to remove them from their ability to be a detriment to the fleet and eliminate the possibility that they will someday cause serious liability damages to property, personal injury or vehicular death to  themselves or others. 

In Vehicle Monitoring Systems, IVMS,  is a general term used to describe very different devices that have a wide range of applications in Professional Journey Management and Driver Risk Management markets so it is helpful to learn some basic differences:

Accident Data Recorders (ADR) 
Were you inclined to automatically record what happens in a vehicle in the 10-30 seconds time period before and after an accident, then a Accident Data Recorders (ADR) might be a  wise choice for an In Vehicle Monitoring Systems (IVMS). As this system usually has a single camera with a  forward facing view it nothing in the way of Professional Journey Management and little to reduce dangerous patterns of driver behaviors that may have caused the accident in the first place. 

Video Event Data Recorder (VEDR)
For Professional Journey Management purposes were you inclined to manually document, by press of a button, odd events or those of interest that they driver believe may be useful later on then the Video Event Data Recorder (VEDR)might be a  wise choice for an In Vehicle Monitoring Systems (IVMS). This system is more tailored to taxi or shuttle applications where people are being transported and their is a need to document possible unwanted interaction or threats harassment ands the like. These systems usually have 1-2 cameras and most of the action is directed inside the vehicle.

Driver Training Device (DTD)
The Active Driver Training Device (DTD) is a Driver Risk Management product with active driver safety aspects and features designed to improve Professional Journey Management, while documenting automatic and manual events and providing the same active alerts to drivers when they act in potentially dangerous driving manor. The dual vehicle video cameras record what the driver sees out the windshield and what the driver does in the vehicle when the driver is supposed to be focused on driving.  The Driver Training Device (DTD) is a extension of management that can remind the driver of the vehicle when they exceed limits on safe driving behaviors that are set by their companies management.

For the first time fleet management can not only train their drivers how to operate their company vehicles in a safe and Eco-Driver fuel  conservation manor, but the system will remind those drivers when they exceed those preset limits set by their fleet management.

Some transportation related markets may be more infested with; untrained, uninterested, unaware and potentially dangerous drivers than others. In these markets the MVS-XD will quickly document the problem drivers, so that management can focus their attention on their worst drivers in order to expedite a solution to the ones most likely to cost the company or district in some negative way. Once they are identified they can be offered additional driver training, or in many cases the built in active functions of the DTD may be sufficient to round off their rough edges so they can learn what they should be doing to avoid the DTD reminding them they are exceeding the safe limits of driving operation set forth by their fleet managers.

Why spend a fortune on a mobile video camera system that will only show you part of what happened when your vehicles are involved in an accident?

When you can invest in an interactive Driver Safety Training In Vehicle Monitoring System IVMS that can help prevent an accident?

The MVS-XD will help train your drivers to drive safely & learn what potentially dangerous driving behaviors they might be unaware of that could end up costing them their jobs, or their lives? 

While they are learning to drive in a safer manor, they will also be saving your company up to 25% in wasted fuel, while reducing considerably the air pollution caused by wasting fuel.