I Bet GPS Tracking Would Have Cost Less Than $3 Million
Just days before potential jurors were to report to the Federal Courthouse in Sherman concerning a civil case in which a fiery tractor-trailer wreck killed 10 people south of Sherman (Texas) back in 2004, the case settled….
He said the case will make sure that Vladimir Kubica (and his wife) will never operate a trucking company again. The couple owned KV Trucking and KV Express, which were both trucking companies. … and who employed the truck driver involved, who went to prison over the incident … ) Gresham (… the plaintiff’s attorney) said miles traveled equals money in the trucking business and, “They turned a blind eye” when their drivers failed to follow rules about the number of miles drivers are supposed to travel before resting … ( full story of this tragedy and how vulnerable business owners can be) see also information on the settlement amount here)
I’ve said it before and I’m going to say it again. If you have vehicles on the road … any size vehicle … being operated in support of your business … and you don’t use GPS tracking you are leaving yourself wide open to some potential very major lifestyle changes. And they won’t be pleasant ones.
Here’s a case where a truck driver caused a tragic, multi-death accident. The driver himself was at fault, that’s not disputed, he’s already in jail as a result of his misdeeds.
However, the business he worked for isn’t a nebulous, impersonal legal entity … as with a great many businesses, this was a real-world partnership of a husband and wife trying to make money by providing a service … and incidentally, to provide jobs to people worthy of employment. If you read the background information on this case you’ll find that the record of the driver doesn’t seem to indicate he was worthy of employment. You’ll also find the employer had a problem in producing accurate records of hours of service (RODS) for their drivers. Open and shut, then, isn’t it? Why bother to write about it … they were just crooks and now they got caught.
Well, perhaps they were crooks … but, as happens with so many of these sad situations … there’s no proof there was any intentional wrong doing and if any one of you reading this thinks that a federal audit of your records over the past few years will always come up without errors, then I think you’re smoking something that should disqualify you from operating a motor vehicles.
In accident after accident after accident the records so often show that the at fault driver exhibited signs that s/he was a time bomb waiting for the accident to happen. So why not spend a tiny fraction of the monetary cost of a tragic road accident like the one illustrated and reap big benefits. Use simple, no monthly cost GPS tracking to verify your driver’s are doing the right thing, eliminate those who aren’t, and be able to print out reports that will make Federal investigators believe you’re a professional manager and not a crook. Not to mention, you might save lives. A lot more than 10 lives were ruined that fateful day.