Four Hard Realities
Number One:
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that there are 11,637 crashes among cars and light trucks per 100,000 registered vehicles. One in eight. Year in, year out.
-- How many crashes did your company
have last year?
Number Two: According to Fleetsafe Corporation repairing the average crash for short-haul carriers cost $4500.
Number Three:
The National Safety Council reports that vehicle damage costs are the tip of the iceberg at less than 10% of the total. Wage and productivity costs, administrative costs, medical costs, and uninsured costs are ten times the cost of damage to vehicles.
Number Four:
The multi-million dollar personal injury or wrongful death claim is the ticking time-bomb in fleet risk management. You never know when your company will become the deep-pockets target of choice for the trial lawyers because of a single moment of failure by one of your drivers. Juries enjoy awarding millions to victims of big brand name fleet drivers like yours.
The Big Question:
If one in eight of your drivers can create a $45,000 accident each year, wouldn’t it make sense to invest
less than $200 per person to prevent
that accident?
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