Reversing Poor Safety Records: Identifying Best Practices to Improve Fleet Safety

Commercial motor vehicle safety is of utmost importance, as crashes involving commercial vehicles often result in significant property damage, injuries, fatalities, and financial loss for fleets. However, fleet managers are unsure what strategies other fleets have used to successfully improve safety. To identify best practices, researchers completed case studies with nine that improved their performance. A content analysis was performed, the successful were organized into Haddon Matrix. Results showed there no one single strategy Instead, relied on a comprehensive approach focusing pre-crash countermeasures, including addressing hiring driver training, culture, technologies, scheduling, maintenance. an enhanced culture advanced technology identified critical components improvement. from this study may help understand peers which not be helpful.