Jon is the Content Marketing Manager at Zendrive. He distills driver data into insights and stories that educate and excite.
The way we understand our roads is rapidly changing. Thanks to new breakthroughs in personal mobility, the role of the traditional car, and the traditional insurance model, is shifting. Bike shares, electric scooters, ride-hailing apps, and autonomous vehicles are claiming more space on our roads than ever before. But what does that mean [...]
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The commercial auto insurance industry is shifting. And how it underwrites, prices, and sells fleet insurance is creating new profitability challenges. Commercial Auto Insurance Profits As Andrea Wells writes in Insurance Journal, modern cars continue to rack up more miles, and distracted drivers account for more of those miles, so [...]
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Gamification has been around for nearly ten years. But with few able to do it well, adoption has lagged behind for driver coaching. Its left many fleet managers wondering if it’s a key factor for 2019. Let’s take a look at some of the key considerations. The Benefits of Gamification According to Wikipedia, gamification “employs [...]
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Automotive telematics data holds plenty of promise. The insurance industry is extremely interested in using telematics for things like automated claims processing. And usage-based insurance (UBI) may revolutionize the way drivers shop for rates and providers. But despite the many effective applications of automotive telematics, there [...]
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It’s 3 PM at Zendrive, and everyone in the office is hunching – not over laptops or piles of notes, but steaming cups of spicy chai. Every day in a matter of minutes, Megha Jindal, our Customer Success Manager, whips up a pot for the entire office. It’s one of the many ways she blends her Indian heritage with her American way of [...]
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To change negative driver behaviors, it’s not enough to track your drivers. You have to coach them towards a perfect safety record – but how exactly is this done? Below are Zendrive’s three steps to implementing a successful driver coaching program: Awareness Collaboration Specificity Implementing safety policies and programs are a good [...]
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Culture is a reflection of who you are. It is the system of values, disciplines and practices that define how people live life. If you don’t build your culture, one will form on its own (and you might not like what you get). Cultivating a culture of safety demonstrates your level of commitment to the lives of your employees, [...]
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For fleets, distracted driving is a major safety problem, causing crashes, injuries, and deaths involving their own drivers as well as others on the road. But beyond those tragedies, companies also face the risk of paying millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages. Under a legal concept called “negligent entrustment,” [...]
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Face it — no matter how important telematics or safety is to a fleet, it’s the drivers who are in control. If they don’t buy into the need for driving more safely, a fleet’s safety performance isn’t going to change. So, the question is: how do you get drivers to buy-in to new driver safety technologies like telematics, and how do [...]
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Every fleet wants to avoid collisions and mitigate risk, but driver safety means so much more. It’s an absolutely critical – and frequently overlooked – core business competency, one that has enormous impacts on both profits and overall fleet productivity. So, how does driver safety affect fleets’ bottom lines? The Correlation [...]
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