Aug 22, 2014 trucks, fleet, news, training, fleet, trucking, trucks, news, training
Regent Insurance has announced that it will launch a truck driver award in 2015, which it believes will help assist in improving driver efficiency. Its the second new fleet focus award launched recently, with TruckX having celebrated its first awards and conference this month.
Regent says that its move is in line with fleet and transport companies seeking greater value for their insurance spend, and the resulting increasing importance for insurance firms to provide services that cater for the needs of employees as well as the owners of insured fleets.
The insurer's Commercial Vehicles National Manager Wayne Rautenbach says Regent Insurance has been guided by the need “to provide a holistic package of services that recognises the importance of improving efficiencies as well as risk management in providing insurance services.
“We believe that our clients get better value from us providing reduced risk as well as improved efficiencies in addition to affordable costs,” Rautenbach says.
“Our experience has shown that fleet owners can make dramatic improvements in terms of insured losses, vehicle performance and operational efficiency, for example, by incorporating driver wellness and training in their telematics systems.”
Regent’s driver wellness offering includes personal driver and co-driver accident cover, an accidental death benefit payable to a driver’s family or beneficiaries and the employer, as well as a hospitalisation benefit. The company also provides a free driver assessment and training service, which makes use of telematics data gathered through its Risk Services bureau.
While the data provided by telematics is valuable for route planning, speed management and administration of schedules, fleet managers have not used the information to its full potential to improve driver performance or manage operational costs such as fuel and vehicle maintenance.
“We offer tailor-made driving programmes for the insured addressing both driving skills and on road attitude. Our unique training is based on the deep assessments and understanding of our insured fleet telematics data and information collected.”
Regent continues that in the past six months, more than 300 drivers have been assessed and it has held 43 three-day defensive driving courses.
Rautenbach explains that the long term hope it to help reduce the 14 000 deaths on South African roads every year, many of which are caused by human error involving trucks.
The truck driver award is expected to be the first independent competition of its kind in South Africa, with the aim of saluting the truck driver and position the fleet manager as an employer of choice that contributes immensely to the South African economy.
“It’s all part of our holistic approach to insurance and risk management. If we can provide an added incentive for truck drivers that will help them to improve their performance on the roads while at the same time helping our clients to manage their running costs, then we will certainly jump at the opportunity to do that,” Rautenbach says.
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