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The Drivewyze Safety+ system allows fleets to create their own specific safety alerts and uses driving data to improve driver coaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Drivewyze is customizing commercial truck safety with a new service that allows fleets to create proactive driving alerts and context-based driver coaching through real-time driver notifications.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new Drivewyze Safety+ system, which requires no additional in-cab hardware and is delivered through the Drivewyze software platform, was released to more than 2.2 million electronic logging devices (ELDs) Oct. 14. The new service builds on the existing Drivewyze Safety Notifications service \u2014 which warns drivers, through audible and visual cues \u2014 of approaching areas where caution is required. Safety+ also includes new back-office tools for fleets to create customized driver alerts, plus offers safety analytics to monitor driver behavior and improve driver coaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on Drivewyze\u2019s context-based driver coaching technology, Safety+ leverages real-time in-cab notifications and driver behavior at high-risk areas and analyzes driver performance to identify superior drivers and those that need more coaching. Safety+ is available as a stand-alone safety service or integrated into a fleet\u2019s existing driver safety platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The trucking technology company hopes the alerts will help make North American roadways safer and carriers more productive by preventing unsafe driving practices from happening, Charlie Mohn, the Drivewyze director of product innovation, told FleetOwner<\/i> <\/i>during a virtual demo of the Safety+ system this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"FleetFleet managers can create custom alert zones for their drivers by flagging areas on maps within the Drivewyze system.<\/span>Photo: Drivewyze<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In a two-year study with J.B. Hunt, which involved the fleets\u2019 thousands of trucks, alerts for high rollover curves led to a 17% reduction in those drivers\u2019 speed. Drivewyze data also showed that unsafe drivers identified by Safety+ were 400% more likely to be in an accident than their peers, Mohn said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat led us to think that there\u2019s something here,\u201d Mohn said. \u201cTwo things that fleets were really asking for: One is more coverage, more zones \u2014 and not just the standard zones that we curated based on national data \u2014 that fleets could customize on their own\u2026 The other big thing was just information from a coaching perspective on what drivers were doing in high-risk areas and how that data could be used to affect change. And thus Drivewyze Safety+ was born and it really comes down to four high-level features.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those four new features are:<\/span><\/p>\n