Fleet Advantage’s new TRUST index helps private fleets compare and boost safety cultures
ORLANDO, Florida—Fleet financing and management provider Fleet Advantage unveiled a new data-based safety index that offers private fleets a way to benchmark their safety scores against other similar operations.
The new Truck Reliability and Usage Safety Tracker, which Fleet Advantage calls TRUST, details private fleet-specific KPIs to help organizations improve operations and elevate their overall CSA scores.
The TRUST index can be an excellent way for smaller or growing private fleets to compare themselves to the top carriers in the industry, Katerina Jones, Fleet Advantage’s chief marketing officer, told FleetOwner during the National Private Truck Council conference here this week. The conference coincides with the start of International Roadcheck, the North American commercial vehicle safety blitz.
Large truck crashes continue to kill more than 5,000 people per year, according to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, according to the model, FA’s TRUST found that the top private fleets in the U.S. have above-average unsafe driving scores.
“They’re more sophisticated,” Jones said of the largest, best-performing private fleets. “They just have more resources. Our TRUST report provides private fleets with the comprehensive insights and trended data they need to proactively address critical safety issues and to continually set high standards.”
She said that by considering the total cost of ownership of safety and equipment and life-cycle cost management, fleets can lift their safety cultures while making their operations more efficient.
What Fleet Advantage’s TRUST offers carriers
TRUST provides comprehensive benchmarks and insights into safety performance, enabling fleets to proactively identify and address safety issues.
TRUST insights include:
- Current and predictive CSA scores
- Inspections
- Violation details, including hours of service and vehicle maintenance
- Crash indicator scoring
- Peer group analysis
- Driver fitness
- Unsafe driving trends
Jones said Fleet Advantage will also offer TRUST reports for for-hire carriers and organizations in various industry verticals. She said they can customize the reports based on fleets’ specific operational goals.
