ALTL, a transportation and logistics provider located in Hudsonville, west MI., was facing pressure to install new fleet safety technology, specifically in-cab cameras, from its captive insurance group with 63 members.
“We had a really high CSA and so we had employed a speeding technology, but we found it to be inaccurate and full of false positives,” said Safety Manager Ryan Merwin.
After looking at several providers, the company chose Netradyne’s Driveri for its scorecard and platform that drivers can get engaged with, explained Claren Lau, president of ALTL, which operates 100 drivers and 109 trucks.
The technology also solved the problem the fleet had experienced with the speeding technology. With the vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) of Driveri, “we have the actual proof with the image of the speed limit sign and the recorded truck speed, so it mitigates this issue,” Merwin said.
Driver reaction
ALTL surveyed the drivers to gauge their appetite for an in-cab safety camera solution. Eighty-five percent said they were on-board, and the company decided to roll out Driveri in January 2019 starting with drivers who were repeat offenders with consecutive incidents.
“We had a driver with severe following distance alerts; his Driveri score was 550 (out of 1,000), which is pretty bad,” recalled Merwin. “I brought him in to the office to show him some videos. It made me uncomfortable watching the videos; I was hitting the brake pedal under my desk. Within 2 weeks he jumped that score from 550 to 750, and he has stayed in that range.”
