Telematics can cut soaring cost of construction-driver accidents
With the cost of crashes soaring 20% in five years, many construction companies are turning to telematics to improve overall fleet safety, reduce claims and lower risk. Liberty Mutual Insurance suggests managers can use telematics to identify and eliminate the root causes of unsafe driving behaviours by setting the right parameters and understanding the scoring and reporting methods to interpret driver scores. Data can score and rank drivers based on the number of incidents recorded but results should be measured against the median rather than average.
As the economy continues to recover, an increase in the frequency and severity of commercial vehicle crashes has prevented construction and other companies from fully profiting from the turnaround.

There are many reasons why severity is increasing, including more miles driven, a shortage of experienced drivers, and distracted driving. The pressure to hire more drivers, more quickly, can soon drive up auto exposures.