Jon is the Content Marketing Manager at Zendrive. He distills driver data into insights and stories that educate and excite.
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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In September, Zendrive CEO & co-founder Jonathan Matus was invited by the insurance experts at A.M. Best to discuss the rise of predictive analytics, the distracted driving epidemic and how new technologies are reshaping the insurance industry. The largest driver analytics platform in the world with over 150-billion miles of driver [...]
Jon Alvarado