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We rank our drivers, fleets and cities by safety performance. SmartDrive gives us another layer to our driver safety programme. We will likely break even on our investment with the SmartDrive system on the London fleet, simply by being exonerated on two or three minor insurance claims.

I’m convinced that if we didn’t have SmartDrive we’d have twice the accidents and would waste much more time and money in investigating and settling claims. The video-based programme is a key enabler in the proactive management of risk across our fleet and the results are clearly seen in the ongoing safety, operational and financial improvements.

The benefit of the SmartDrive programme shines through in the quality of the video reviews and supporting analytics – which saves our team time and focuses them on the risk areas that are most important to our business. The managed service that SmartDrive provides, means that they do all the heavy lifting for us, categorising and scoring events based on the individual safety and compliance priorities that we have set within the system. The beauty of video and having skilled and consistent human eyes reviewing it is that we don’t waste time and valuable resources looking at events that aren’t risky. Our team can clearly see what is happening on the road and in the cab at the time of a collision or triggered event.  This means we can capture the true root cause of an event that would not be possible from just a telematics trace.

We have enough data now to say that SmartDrive has made a considerable contribution to enabling us to reduce collisions, save fuel and proactively work towards minimising our associated direct and indirect costs. It has become an integral part of our day-to-day operations and is a necessary component of our fleet management strategy, helping to ensure that our drivers are operating safely and efficiently on the road and that we are doing all we can to minimise our total cost of risk.

By adding SmartDrive to our fleet, we've been able to capture data that helps us improve our overall employee training processes and truly understand what went on when an event occurred. Not only is having the ability to capture video important, it is essential in allowing us to avoid future incidents and better protect our drivers. In short, SmartDrive is an exceptional investment that has given our company peace of mind and an additional layer of protection against risk.

SmartDrive gives us the ability to see an incident as it unfolds, which allows us to be proactive in preventing future collisions. With the program, we know what the driver did correctly, where improvement is needed, and what contributing factors—positive or negative—may have played a role.

The telematics data and contextual vehicle information that accompanies the video—including, speed, GPS and map location, and braking—has delivered significantly more insight to our risk.

With a service area of more than 1,400 square miles in a county of nearly 10 million people, L.A. Metro is committed to ensuring that safety is always our first consideration.

We’re a target. The SmartDrive program is for our own safety and the safety of others.

SmartDrive's safety programme gives us peace of mind, not only because we know exactly what happened in each accident, but also because we can proactively identify high-risk situations and coach our drivers to improve performance before a collision occurs.

We evaluated different systems, but SmartDrive was superior. There was a significant difference in terms of collisions captured, the overall visibility to risk and the ability to access additional video context on-demand—this combination compelled us to select SmartDrive.

The great thing about SmartDrive is how it really makes our drivers understand what they’re doing behind the wheel. Now they can make better driving decisions. It’s been a great tool so they don’t get themselves in a bad situation and injure themselves or the people who ride on our buses.

Interestingly, we've found that the biggest benefit of the SmartDrive system is the driver education that comes with it—SmartDrive serves up the right business intelligence insights we need to guide our proactive and constructive coaching.