Driving Success: 5 Pieces To Compliance Episode 2: Hours of Service, Maximizing Your Data

Sep 16, 2024

Geotab’s Data Processing

Geotab processes over 75 billion data points every day. This helps businesses make better decisions with real-time insights.

Geotab uses a special algorithm to compress data while keeping it accurate, focusing only on the most important points.

Geotab’s Active Insights and Telematics

Geotab offers tools like AI-powered collision detection, which helps assess crash severity and improve safety.

Their telematics system, combined with cameras, tracks driver behavior such as speed, braking, cornering, and seatbelt use.

Data Collection and Benefits

Geotab gathers key vehicle data on underused assets, maintenance issues, risky driving, and hours of service violations.

In a pilot with 22 vehicles, Geotab found the company was 78% safer than other heavy trucking companies.

Murdoch Fleet Operations

Murdoch Fleet delivers heavy materials to construction sites and stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot using flatbed trucks.

They follow a decentralized fleet model, parking trucks at customer locations instead of a central hub.

Switching to Geotab

Murdoch Fleet switched to Geotab after drivers found the old system hard to use.

With Geotab’s new program, Zen, speeding and seatbelt violations dropped. The system rewards drivers for good performance, reducing speeding violations from 100 to 50-60 a week, and seatbelt violations to zero.

Geotab’s Impact on Murdoch Fleet

Geotab ensures Murdoch Fleet complies with ELD rules. The system makes tracking driver logs easy, with video tutorials and an intuitive interface.

The Zenu maintenance program improved their operations, helping the team coordinate repairs and technician routes, and saving money by addressing tire issues early.

Murdoch Fleet’s Success with Geotab

Since using Geotab, Murdoch Fleet has seen steady improvements in driver safety and compliance by rewarding positive behavior.

Now, they’re focusing on managing fluctuating diesel prices and using telematics data to stay efficient in a post-pandemic world.

Geotab Connect and Webinars

Geotab Connect, scheduled for February 25-27 in Orlando, offers hands-on training, networking, and new product updates, including a refreshed Hours of Service page.

The next webinar, on drug and alcohol testing, is coming next month. These webinars help drivers stay compliant with regulations.