Safety & Accident

DETROIT - The Fleet Action Center's incoming calls are manually tracked and categorized using four call prompts: incentives, fleet account number inquiries, order management and specifications, and service.

Tags: driver safety, General Motors

COLUMBIA, SC - An insurance company is paying nearly $5 million to settle the case of a woman who struck and killed two bicyclists in South Carolina while driving a company vehicle.

Tags: accident, cell phone, driver safety

With many cities in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Midwest getting buried in snow this week, now might be a good time to remind fleet drivers of what steps to take if they ever become stranded in cold weather.

Tags: driver safety, driving tips

ARLINGTON, VA - As more state legislatures across the U.S. enact laws that ban phoning and texting while driving, a new Highway Loss Data Institute study has found no reductions in crashes after hand-held phone bans take effect.

Tags: driver safety, Highway Loss Data Institute , IIHS, texting while driving

ATLANTA - UPS recently inducted 928 drivers into its elite "Circle of Honor" - the largest for any single year in the company's history. The new additions bring the number of active UPS drivers who have steered clear of accidents for 25 years or more to 4,793.

Tags: award, driver safety, UPS

Here are some seasonal tips on sharing the road with snow plow trucks. The advice is culled from the Minnesota Driver's Manual.

Tags: driver safety, driving tips

Here are some headlight safety tips, culled from the Minnesota Driver's Manual. You may want to pass along this advice to your fleet drivers as a reminder.

Tags: driver safety, safety

For safety's sake, it's important to assemble winter survival kits to keep in all fleet vehicles, especially those driven in snow conditions. Here are some recommendations from the Minnesota Driver's Manual.

Tags: driver safety, safety

This week's safety tip, culled from the Minnesota Driver's Manual, addresses how drivers should respond when encountering emergency vehicles on the highway.

Tags: driver safety, safety

EL SEGUNDO, CA - While car Internet access should only be used while vehicles are stopped to avoid distractions, iSuppli says in the long-term it could yield innovative new applications that enhance driver safety.

Tags: driver safety, Internet access, mobile application

These tips, provided by the California Driver Handbook, offer advice on what to do in the event of sudden vehicle trouble. You may want to pass this list along to your fleet drivers as a reminder.

Tags: driver safety, safety

PLAINVIEW, TX - The Wal-Mart Transportation Division is awarding brand new rigs to drivers who log 3 million miles without being in a preventable accident.

Tags: driver safety, Wal-Mart

AUBURN HILLS, MI - Effectively immediately, all Chrysler Group employees are prohibited from texting while driving in company-owned vehicles and texting with company-provided communication devices while driving personal vehicles.

Tags: Chrysler Group LLC, company policy, driver safety, DWT, texting while driving

This week's safety tip comes from the manual "What Every Driver Must Know," published by the state of Michigan.

Tags: driver safety, safety

REDWOOD SHORES, CA - The petroleum products distributor has seen a 66-percent reduction in risky driving behaviors since deploying the GreenRoad 360 service.

Tags: driver behavior, driver safety, GreenRoad, Tiger Fuel

Here's a pithy tip you can pass along to your fleet drivers.

Tags: driver safety, safety tips

TORRANCE, CA --- In Toyota's preliminary safety recall notice aimed at addressing the risk of sudden acceleration in certain models, the company listed what steps a driver should take if the accelerator pedal becomes stuck open.

Tags: driver safety, Recall, sudden acceleration

SALT LAKE CITY - inthinc Technology Solutions offers a comprehensive system that changes driving behavior in real time to improve safety and fleet efficiency.

Tags: driver safety, inthinc Technology Solutions, safety

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- At the request of safety and labor groups, the Obama administration has agreed to reconsider the expanded hours-of-service rule that permits long-haul truckers to drive up to 11 straight hours.

Tags: American Trucking Associations, driver safety, FMCSA, International Brotherhood of Teamsters , trucker hours-of-service rule

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- In an effort to prevent vehicle crashes, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), in partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and other groups, has launched Operation Safe Driver.

Tags: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance , distraction, driver safety, FMCSA, Operation Safe Driver

ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) recently sought out the impact of cell phone laws in changing patterns of driver cell phone use in New York, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia.

Tags: cell phone ban, Connecticut, distraction, District of Columbia, driver safety, IIHS, Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, New York

LOS ANGELES --- The U.S. Geological Survey this week issued a warning that severe mudslides are highly likely this winter in Southern California foothill communities hit by recent fires.

Tags: American Red Cross, driver safety, mud slides

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- According to a new study, 95 percent of respondents 55 and older have had at least one medical condition and 78 percent use one or more medications. However, only 28 percent indicated some awareness of the potential impact on driving performance that these medications can have.

Tags: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety , driver safety, older drivers, prescription drugs, UAB Center for Injury Sciences

Here's a list of safe-driving practices that you may want to pass along to your fleet drivers.

Tags: Allstate Insurance, distraction, driver safety, road rage

NORTHBROOK, IL --- The Allstate Insurance Co. today released its fifth annual Allstate America's Best Drivers Report, which ranks America's 200 largest cities in terms of car collision frequency to identify which cities have the safest drivers according to Allstate data.

Tags: Allstate America's Best Drivers Report, Allstate Insurance Co., driver safety, safest driving cities