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Blog: Vocational trucks are susceptible to being targeted for staged accidents, which involves maneuvering an unsuspecting employee driver into an intentional crash in order to make a false insurance claim or to file a lawsuit against the driver’s employer.
Read More →With several increased risk factors at play, fleet managers must be sure to adopt risk management systems that monitor, measure, and change driver behavior.
Read More →New analysis shows Mississippi has the highest fall fatality rate of all states — 4.52 accidents per 100,000 residents.
Read More →On average, 20 percent of fleet vehicles are involved in accidents each year. Although this percentage has remained steady from 2005-2007, the cost of repairing these vehicles is rising.
Read More →Parking lot crashes have remained prevalent in the industry and are a perennial concern to fleets everywhere.
Read More →DEARBORN, MI --- Ford Motor Co. has introduced new, extreme tests -- such as ramming shopping carts into car doors and blasting water cannons to force vehicles into skids -- to fine-tune new safety technologies for its mainstream vehicles.
Read More →On March 18, as other drivers swerved to avoid an out-of-control car and then kept going, Mark Bartholomew noticed that the driver was alone and appeared to be unconscious.
Read More →Mobileye, Inc., has signed an agreement with GE Capital Fleet Services to make Mobileye collision avoidance systems accessible to its truck fleet customers.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- A new nonprofit group, called FocusDriven and sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Transportation, has formed to discourage people from using cell phones and texting devices while driving.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's new side-impact crash standards are expected to be released Sept. 28.
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