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Dangerous Fleet Driving: A Ranking of the Worst Driver Behaviors Dangerous Fleet Driving: A Ranking of the Worst Driver Behaviors

Dangerous Fleet Driving: A Ranking of the Worst Driver Behaviors

Of all the aspects of fleet management, safety is most important. With the average fleet driver logging 25,000 miles or more per year, this puts them at a statistically higher risk of an accident when compared to the average person who only drives 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year.  But what are the worst driver behaviors? In this post, we’ll look at the five most dan...
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Dangerous Fleet Driving: A Ranking of the Worst Driver Behaviors Dangerous Fleet Driving: A Ranking of the Worst Driver Behaviors

Dangerous Fleet Driving: A Ranking of the Worst Driver Behaviors

Of all the aspects of fleet management, safety is most important. With the average fleet driver logging 25,000 miles or more per year, this puts them at a statistically higher risk of an accident whe...
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Driver Safety
5 Bad Driving Habits Your Fleet Should Avoid 5 Bad Driving Habits Your Fleet Should Avoid

5 Bad Driving Habits Your Fleet Should Avoid

Bad driving habits are bad for business. At best, they lower your fuel efficiency and diminish productivity. At worst, they create serious safety hazards that endanger the lives of your fleet drivers...
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Driver Safety
Tips for Automating Your Fleet Management Processes Tips for Automating Your Fleet Management Processes

Tips for Automating Your Fleet Management Processes

To say that fleet management is logistics heavy would be an understatement. There are countless moving parts and a wide array of variables you have to account for on a daily basis. One of the best wa...
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Fleet Management
Engine Calibrations: What They Are and Why Your Fleet Needs Them Engine Calibrations: What They Are and Why Your Fleet Needs Them

Engine Calibrations: What They Are and Why Your Fleet Needs Them

The ups and downs of the economic landscape, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, have created unprecedented amounts of urgency for businesses to get the most value from how their fleets ...
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Efficiency
3 Benefits of Vehicle Idle Reduction 3 Benefits of Vehicle Idle Reduction

3 Benefits of Vehicle Idle Reduction

At first glance, vehicle idling may not seem like a big deal. And perhaps it’s not on a small scale, when you’re dealing with just a handful of vehicles. But it becomes a serious issue on the mac...
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Sustainability
Important Fleet Metrics You Should Be Tracking Important Fleet Metrics You Should Be Tracking

Important Fleet Metrics You Should Be Tracking

Efficiency is the name of the game with fleet management. You want to get the absolute most efficiency and productivity from your fleet, while reducing every possible source of friction. And a big pa...
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Fleet Management
Understanding the Real Cost of Vehicle Downtime Understanding the Real Cost of Vehicle Downtime

Understanding the Real Cost of Vehicle Downtime

Vehicle downtime is an inevitable yet highly frustrating part of fleet management. The reason for downtime can vary. It may be due to regular planned servicing, minor repairs for fixing normal wear a...
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Efficiency
7 Ways to Improve Your Fleet Driving Habits 7 Ways to Improve Your Fleet Driving Habits

7 Ways to Improve Your Fleet Driving Habits

The vehicles, technology, and policies you use all heavily impact fleet performance. But at the end of the day, one of the most significant contributors to your bottom line is your fleet driving habi...
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Driver Safety
10 Tips To Establishing an Effective Fleet Management Budget 10 Tips To Establishing an Effective Fleet Management Budget

10 Tips To Establishing an Effective Fleet Management Budget

As a fleet manager, understanding and controlling your operating costs is essential to build a viable fleet that can be scaled as required. However, establishing an adequate fleet management budget i...
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Fleet Management
Building a Fleet Safety Program: 6 Steps You Should Follow Building a Fleet Safety Program: 6 Steps You Should Follow

Building a Fleet Safety Program: 6 Steps You Should Follow

In the last few years, more and more traffic accidents and fatalities involving fleet vehicles have occurred on roads. While some of these incidents are due to more people driving than ever before, o...
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Driver Safety
7 Things That Are Burning Your Fuel BudgetMaintaining a Fleet Fuel Budget: 7 Factors Impacting the Bottom Line 7 Things That Are Burning Your Fuel BudgetMaintaining a Fleet Fuel Budget: 7 Factors Impacting the Bottom Line

7 Things That Are Burning Your Fuel BudgetMaintaining a Fleet Fuel Budget: 7 Factors Impacting the Bottom Line

Cost management is a vital part of every fleet manager's day-to-day operations. Whether sourcing new vehicles, hiring additional staff, purchasing new equipment, or maintaining regular vehicle mainte...
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Efficiency
5 Fleet Management Trends To Watch In 2021 5 Fleet Management Trends To Watch In 2021

5 Fleet Management Trends To Watch In 2021

It's no secret now that 2020 was an incredibly disruptive year for every industry around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic shook everything to its core, exposing business weaknesses for many, catalyzi...
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Fleet Management
Replace or Repair: What To Look For When Evaluating Your Fleet Vehicles Replace or Repair: What To Look For When Evaluating Your Fleet Vehicles

Replace or Repair: What To Look For When Evaluating Your Fleet Vehicles

Regular fleet vehicle evaluation can be a time-consuming but necessary process for all fleet managers. Because fleet managers are responsible for managing great numbers of vehicles at a time (sometim...
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Sustainability
Fleet Sustainability Best Practices for 2021 Fleet Sustainability Best Practices for 2021

Fleet Sustainability Best Practices for 2021

Green fleet strategies have grown in importance in recent years. Having a well-balanced sustainability strategy shows a progressive attitude towards controlling carbon emissions and helps to increase...
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Sustainability
Derive VQ Brings Fuel Savings, Reduced Emissions to Florida Fleets Derive VQ Brings Fuel Savings, Reduced Emissions to Florida Fleets

Derive VQ Brings Fuel Savings, Reduced Emissions to Florida Fleets

St. Petersburg, Florida, was one city that recently piloted Derive VQ in its fleet. Another pilot in Orlando went so well that the fleet manager is installing it in all vehicles. Pictured here a...
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Better Driver Safety: 5 Tactics You May Not Have Tried Yet Better Driver Safety: 5 Tactics You May Not Have Tried Yet

Better Driver Safety: 5 Tactics You May Not Have Tried Yet

It doesn't matter what type of industry your organization is part of; very few things occupy the minds of fleet managers as often as driver safety.  As a fleet manager, ensuring driver safety is ...
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Driver Safety
5 Ways Telematics Helps To Improve Fleet Visibility 5 Ways Telematics Helps To Improve Fleet Visibility

5 Ways Telematics Helps To Improve Fleet Visibility

As more organizations look for better ways to adapt to remote working arrangements with limited abilities for in-house management and communication, finding intuitive ways to stay on top of productiv...
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Telematics
10 Vehicle Maintenance Tips That Fleet Managers Should Know 10 Vehicle Maintenance Tips That Fleet Managers Should Know

10 Vehicle Maintenance Tips That Fleet Managers Should Know

There's no denying the value of preventative fleet maintenance. Not only does it save money by lowering your operating costs, but you'll also get more life out of your fleet vehicles, improve product...
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Fleet Management
A Fleet Manager’s Guide for Navigating COVID Response A Fleet Manager’s Guide for Navigating COVID Response

A Fleet Manager’s Guide for Navigating COVID Response

There are few things in this generation that have had a more considerable global impact on business operations than COVID-19. At every level of infrastructure, organizations in most industries have h...
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Driver Safety
7 Factors Impacting Your Fleet’s Performance 7 Factors Impacting Your Fleet’s Performance

7 Factors Impacting Your Fleet’s Performance

As a manager of a fully established or growing fleet of vehicles and drivers, there is no shortage of tasks on your plate. Whether maintaining day-to-day routing schedules, developing situational pol...
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Fleet Management
Derive VQ – A Solution for Today to Save Tomorrow Derive VQ – A Solution for Today to Save Tomorrow

Derive VQ – A Solution for Today to Save Tomorrow

At Derive Systems, we take pride in the work that we do to protect our planet. Below are some facts about the effectiveness of Derive's evolutionary optimization solutions: With Derive, you can s...
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Efficiency News VQ
Slam the Brakes on Speeding in Your Fleet Slam the Brakes on Speeding in Your Fleet
Blog

Slam the Brakes on Speeding in Your Fleet

Every fleet manager has had them, the drivers that must be tying bricks to their feet as they zoom around their job sites. Speeding is a serious problem among fleet drivers and isn’t just costly fo...
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Safety
Reducing Fleet Driver Exposure to COVID-19 Reducing Fleet Driver Exposure to COVID-19
Blog

Reducing Fleet Driver Exposure to COVID-19

COVID-19, also known as coronavirus disease 2019, has quickly become a global pandemic and has many business owners and managers scrambling to figure out how to best protect their employees. At De...
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News Safety
Derive Systems Appoints John Oechsle as Chief Executive Officer Derive Systems Appoints John Oechsle as Chief Executive Officer
Blog

Derive Systems Appoints John Oechsle as Chief Executive Officer

Derive Systems, a leading B2B and B2C automotive technology provider with over two million software installations on the road, announced today that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed H....
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News
Improving Safety in Your Fleet: 10 Defensive Driving Tips Improving Safety in Your Fleet: 10 Defensive Driving Tips
Blog

Improving Safety in Your Fleet: 10 Defensive Driving Tips

Spring into safety in your fleet by revisiting defensive driving best practices with your drivers. Defensive driving empowers drivers to take control of their own behaviors to better react to othe...
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Safety
Top 3 Impacts to Fuel Efficiency in Your Fleet Top 3 Impacts to Fuel Efficiency in Your Fleet
Blog

Top 3 Impacts to Fuel Efficiency in Your Fleet

Finding ways to save money in your fleet is always a high priority, even when fuel costs at the pump are low. But oftentimes fleet managers turn to driver training as the answer to making their vehic...
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Efficiency
Improving Productivity in a Small Fleet Improving Productivity in a Small Fleet
Blog

Improving Productivity in a Small Fleet

Fleet managers wear a lot of hats, especially those managing small fleets and working with reduced budgets and resources. But there are ways small fleets can make gains in productivity to improve ...
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Productivity
How to Onboard Telematics in Your Fleet How to Onboard Telematics in Your Fleet
Blog

How to Onboard Telematics in Your Fleet

Telematics software offers greater visibility into your fleet’s operations and has quickly become a must-have technology in the industry. Some of the key benefits of telematics for fleets includ...
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Telematics
Automating Safety in Your Fleet Automating Safety in Your Fleet
Blog

Automating Safety in Your Fleet

Fleet safety is a top concern among fleet managers and many sessions at industry conferences and workshops focus on how to improve safety within your operations and among your drivers. But what if...
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Safety
Fleet Metrics to Track in 2020 Fleet Metrics to Track in 2020
Blog

Fleet Metrics to Track in 2020

Welcome to 2020! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready to achieve the goals you set for your fleet this year. One way to make sure you’re on track during the year is by keepin...
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Calibrations Efficiency Productivity Telematics
Law Enforcement Case Study Law Enforcement Case Study
Case Study

Law Enforcement Case Study

Top Florida law enforcement fleet sees significant fuel savings and reduces their carbon footprint with Derive’s software upgrades ...
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Efficiency Safety
Oilfield/Energy Services Case Study Oilfield/Energy Services Case Study
Case Study

Oilfield/Energy Services Case Study

Montana-based construction and oilfield/energy services ...
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Calibrations Efficiency Productivity
The Perfect Fleet Management Combination: Telematics + Calibration The Perfect Fleet Management Combination: Telematics + Calibration
Whitepaper

The Perfect Fleet Management Combination: Telematics + Calibration

Learn how pairing telematics with calibrations can improve fuel efficiency, enhance vehicle safety, and extend vehicle life as well as provide enhanced control over the entire fleet.  ...
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Calibrations Telematics
The Key to Fleet Optimization is Fleet Engine Calibration The Key to Fleet Optimization is Fleet Engine Calibration
Whitepaper

The Key to Fleet Optimization is Fleet Engine Calibration

Why is engine calibration not on fleet manager's radar? Vehicles are mass-produced to function for a wide variety of potential buyers and uses. Fleets, on the other hand, are not one-size-fits-all...
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Calibrations
How Social Responsibility Is Changing Fleet Management How Social Responsibility Is Changing Fleet Management
Whitepaper

How Social Responsibility Is Changing Fleet Management

Find out what changes can be made to your fleet management approach to lower the carbon footprint of your fleet.   ...
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Efficiency
The Long-Term Effect of Inefficient Fleet Management The Long-Term Effect of Inefficient Fleet Management
Whitepaper

The Long-Term Effect of Inefficient Fleet Management

Traditionally, making improvements to fleet productivity relies on driver-centric management. The problem is, only focusing on driver management instead of vehicle management limits the producti...
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Productivity
The Fleet Management Revolution Is Here: The Derive VQ® Platform The Fleet Management Revolution Is Here: The Derive VQ® Platform
Whitepaper

The Fleet Management Revolution Is Here: The Derive VQ® Platform

Derive Systems is shifting the fleet management approach from driver-centric to vehicle-centric with the new Derive VQ® software platform. This white paper explains how...
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VQ
Ensure Fleet ManagementSuccess With The Right Telematics Software Ensure Fleet ManagementSuccess With The Right Telematics Software
Whitepaper

Ensure Fleet ManagementSuccess With The Right Telematics Software

When paired with the right telematics solution, fleet managers no longer just gain visibility into fleet management operations, they are able to solve their most pressing challenges. Download our whi...
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Telematics
Transform Your Entire Fleet with Engine Calibration Transform Your Entire Fleet with Engine Calibration
Blog

Transform Your Entire Fleet with Engine Calibration

Vehicles are mass-produced to function for a wide variety of potential buyers and uses. Fleets, on the other hand, are not one-size-fits-all. Fleet vehicles are used to accomplish an array of tasks t...
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Calibrations
How The Future Of Telematics Will Solve Performance Challenges How The Future Of Telematics Will Solve Performance Challenges
Whitepaper

How The Future Of Telematics Will Solve Performance Challenges

 Telematics systems have been used for decades in fleet management to capture vehicle data. This white paper explains how telematics improves your bottom line and how the future of telemati...
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Telematics
Frontier Communications Frontier Communications
Case Study

Frontier Communications

Derive delivers immediate million dollar fuel savings to national enterprise fleet. ...
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Calibrations Safety Telematics
Telecommunications Case Study Telecommunications Case Study
Case Study

Telecommunications Case Study

Driving fuel gains for a national commercial fleet case study. ...
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Efficiency
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