{"id":8272,"date":"2020-11-01T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T11:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=8272"},"modified":"2020-11-01T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T11:53:20","slug":"driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2020\/11\/01\/driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Risky driving highest at beginning and end of shifts, Samsara finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data collected from Samsara indicate that risky behaviors such as harsh braking and distracted driving are more common at the start or end of a driver’s shift.<\/p>\n

Compared to the middle of their shifts, commercial drivers are 26% more likely to exhibit unsafe driving than at the start and 41% at the end of their shift, according to data gathered by Samsara\u2019s telematics platform<\/a> and analyzed by the company.<\/p>\n

Samsara used four metrics for the analysis: harsh acceleration and harsh braking (measured by g-force); and distracted driving and tailgating (determined by artificial intelligence). Since Jan. 1, 2020, 2 million such events were detected in U.S. commercial fleets.<\/p>\n

Shift lengths ranged from four to 12 hours, but these unsafe trends appeared consistent throughout, Samsara noted.<\/p>\n

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Graph: Samsara<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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One stat that jumps out is harsh acceleration occurs 77% more often during the last 1\/10th<\/sup> of shift than in the middle. That\u2019s nearly double the frequency at the beginning of a shift relative to the middle (39%). Harsh braking has similar results, with 54% more likely at the end versus 28% at the beginning.<\/p>\n

Conversely, distracted driving is 36% more likely during the first part of the shift, which is twice as much as at the middle-to-end difference.<\/p>\n

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Graph: Samsara<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At least three factors are believed to contribute to the skewed results at the start and stop of a shift:<\/p>\n