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SmartDrive’s ‘Extended Recording’ feature enhanced; other upgrades, video mandate discussed
In a press briefing with reporters, coming just two weeks after NTSB’s first call for a mandate for video recorder use, SmartDrive reps noted any mandate would be long in coming but that a belief in the power of video in highway safety “is certainly our position.”
November 30, 2016
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Channel 19
Mere inches of a near miss: Quick evasive action saves truck from sure disaster
This dashcam vid comes from the Connecticut-based 250-truck Bozzuto’s fleet. Says Tom Halpin, transportation safety manager at Bozzuto’s: “In the words of the driver,” one of Bozzuto’s most senior, “‘I don’t know if [the motorist] fell asleep or was distracted.’ It was mere inches in a near miss.”
October 12, 2016
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Business
Post-crash litigation: Cameras and ELD evidence
Much of the monitoring equipment that many larger carriers are investing in — from cameras to ELDs — also gives them a critical edge in legal disputes.
June 21, 2016
Post-crash civil litigation can be viewed as at least contributing to carriers' uptake of monitoring equipment. For more about the future of such equipment as it relates, access installments in Overdrive's March/April 'Tomorrow's Trucker' multipart feature via this link.
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Big data at ‘tipping point’ for new safety applications
Fatigue management and monitoring techs will become, over the next 30 years, ubiquitous in fleet trucks — even, says safety expert Don Osterberg, in owner-operated units.
April 7, 2016
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Business
SmartDrive SmartIQ suite: ‘Game changer’ in driver and fleet data, company says
SmartDrive, known for its dual driver-/road-facing camera systems, takes performance indicators to new levels with its new SmartIQ suite.
January 25, 2016
SmartDrive reps offered these example graphs of driver-performance scores averaged among groups of drivers with differing in-company tenure lengths as evidence of the kinds of analyses SmartIQ is capable of. Cutting performance-score indicators by fleet, route, sites and other metrics is also possible.
Voices
Merge gone bad — into the front right of Preston Lindsay’s daycab
Running down the list of extenuating factors in Lindsay’s review of the accident takes quite a while longer than the second or two it took to happen, illustrating the well-developed instincts of the professional driver that can avoid making things worse in such circumstances.
November 23, 2015
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Business
Driver avoids rear-end accident — without spilling a drop of coffee
At once, the driver was focused on the car that cut him off. If he’d been watching up ahead, the hard-braking event that triggered the camera and the subsequent jump up onto a curb might have also been avoided.
October 7, 2015
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Business
‘Tampa T-Bone’ from SmartDrive’s Great Driving Insights series
If you’re running a road-facing dashcam of your own today, this video may just be further proof of what you already know — the power of on-highway video to exonerate a driver who’s doing things right in the event of an accident. The SmartDrive company typically works with fleets who wish to install both road- and driver-facing cameras. If you’re not running a road-facing dashcam of your own today, forward-facing cameras that are triggered to save clips by g-force events like accidents can be had for relatively minimal cost. Brad Willis, an independent Overdrive talked to in recent times, uses a sophisticated Blue Tiger model he picked up for under $150. As he puts it in our feature on the subject of on-truck video last year, having the camera mounted visibly in the windshield has produced benefits beyond event-recording on the road. It’s also a good theft-deterrent. Contrary to incidents that occurred during the time prior to having the camera there, “nothing has been touched [by thieves] on my truck since installing it.” Read more about it all via this link.
June 9, 2015
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Business
Video witnesses: Honoring the privacy bargain with drivers
Privacy worries over dual road- and driver-facing video systems in trucks are being mitigated, makers say, by a bargain with drivers to be “minimally invasive.” More on systems’ utility for small fleets in Part 2 of this feature here.
July 23, 2014
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Channel 19
Power of video: Driver exoneration the key attraction for many
From the SmartDrive company’s “Great Driving Insights” series, these videos detail cases in which captured vid worked to the benefit of the driver after an accident.
July 22, 2014
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Business
Video witnesses: Dual-camera systems making in-roads in fleet trucks
How truck-based cameras are capturing evidence that affects safety and privacy on the road.
July 21, 2014
Most truck cameras are road-facing, installed by fleets or owner-operators. Some fleets install dual technology, adding a lens trained on the driver.
Business
Video systems continue to make inroads among fleets
At the ALK tech summit this week, fleets touted the benefits — and highlighted the challenges — of road- and driver-facing in-cab camera systems. Are you running with one? Tell us in the comments here.
May 23, 2014
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