What Will Be Your Final Hour?

I’m busy with the multi-part teen GPS series of posts but I came across this item which seemed a bit too good to pass up.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a teen or a tottering old man as I am, there’s little doubt that fatigue plays a significant part in the risk factor.

One thing many managers and business owners overlook when thinking of GPS fleet monitoring is the manager’s role in fatigue-related accidents.

In egregious cases some business owners have been fined or even jailed for hiding the fact that their drivers have been exceeding the hours of service rules.

But even if there’s no direct liability, simple business sense (an humanity) dictates that on the road fatigue is something a business owner needs to keep on his radar screen.

For businesses with local delivery fleets the driving rules are significantly different. In some cases drivers can put in 16 hour days … and often can’t work that long again for a period of time. Do you know the rules?

More importantly, can you document what your drivers have been doing? If there’s a fatal wreck and one of your drivers is charged with being the cause, how would you go about proving his or her hours of service .. you might need to go back two weeks or more?

Something to think about when you are wrestling with the GPS/non GPS cost benefit analysis asnd calculating your ROI period.

Measuring what you manage might turn out to be cheaper than you think.