How to asses your drivers

Assessing the performance of your employees is of the utmost importance for your business, as it can give you an insight into whether you’re meeting your profitability, efficiency and productivity targets. 

The main advantages are: 

• Ascertain driving times for specific routes.You can set an average time by comparing the driving times of all your workers.
• Improve driving behaviour. Get to know your drivers’ driving styles, set alerts that clearly identify excessive speeding, hard braking, excessive engine idling or sharp cornering.
• Detect possible misconduct. You can spot if any of your workers are deviating from the established routes. 
• Get to know drivers better. By assessing how well heavy vehicle drivers drive, you can be more confident when planning routes with a view to responding better to market requirements. So, if you have a customer who requires deliveries to arrive on time, you’ll know exactly who the best person for the job is.

You can also track how much fuel each driver consumes and offer incentives or rewards to the driver who consumes the least and who advises others on how to drive more efficiently. 

What’s more, it’s vitally important to inform drivers about the metrics that will be used to assess their performance. Of course, when coming up with these metrics, the impact on their personal lives should be taken into account; in other words, how much of a sacrifice it is for them to spend days alone, away from home and family and loved ones. 

In short, you need fleet management software to help you assess your drivers’ performance as accurately as possible. Fleet management solutions have sensors and software to optimise routes, fuel consumption and other factors that affect fleet performance. All functions are managed from the system’s dashboard.

Each vehicle is synched with the application using GPS technology or by installing additional sensors to extract information directly from the engine.

Examples of some programmes are Movolytics, Webfleet, Beetrack and 4G Fleet.

Remember; efficient fleet management will have an impact on your company’s finances, the well-being of your employees and your sustainability goals. Installing and using tools to help you do this is of vital importance, in particular now that these solutions are available to companies of all sizes. Find the best one for your fleet!