How to evaluate your drivers performance

Evaluating the performance of your workers is of vital importance for your company, as it can help you check if the objectives of profitability, efficiency and productivity established. 

As main advantages we can talk about: 

• Identify driving times regarding specific routes. You can establish an average time by comparing the driving times of all your workers.
• Improve driving behavior. Know the driving style of your drivers, establishes alerts that allow you to clearly identify excess speeds, sudden braking, excessive engine idling or sudden cornering.
• Detect possible bad practices. You can detect if any of your workers are altering the defined routes. 
• Get to know the drivers better. By evaluating the driving quality of heavy vehicle drivers, you will be able to have more confidence when establishing routes, in order to better respond to market requirements. Thus, if you have a client who needs extreme punctuality in the delivery of their cargo, you will know exactly who you can assign said shipment to. 

In this sense, you will also be able to know the fuel consumption of each driver and incentivize or reward in some way the driver who consumes the least and have him advise others on how to achieve better results in their consumption. 

Likewise, it is vitally important to inform drivers about the metrics that will be used to evaluate their work performance. Of course, when choosing these metrics, we will have to take into account the human side of the drivers and how sacrificed it can be for them to be alone for days, away from home and away from their family and loved ones. 

In short, in order to evaluate the work of your drivers with the greatest precision, you will need the help of a fleet management software. Fleet management solutions work by using sensors and software to optimize routes, fuel consumption and other factors that affect fleet performance. All functions are managed from the system’s control panel or “Dashboard”.

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

Some of these programs are Movolytics, Webfleet, Beetrack.

Remember, efficient management of your fleet will have an impact on the economy of your company, the well-being of your workers and the efforts to achieve sustainability. Installing and using tools that help you in this work is of special importance, especially now that you are solutions are within the reach of companies of all sizes. Find the one that best suits your fleet!