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Keep Your Fleet Compliant

Compliance with industry requirements is made easier with automated tools designed for a seamless reporting experience.
All commercial fleets are bound by company, state, and national compliance regulations. The US Department of Transport (DOT) and its enforcing branch, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), require fleet managers to follow five main guidelines:
  • Hours of service (HOS) logs
  • Driver-vehicle inspection reports (DVIRs)
  • International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) reporting
  • Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) scores determined by the FMCSA
  • Pre-employment safety screening and pre-employment, random, and post-incident alcohol, and substance testing
Keep your fleet compliant
Driver fatigue is accountable for 1 in every 5 crashes and is therefore a significant threat to all road users. DOT and FMCSA regulations keep your drivers engaged, your assets roadworthy and protected, and helps to reduce fatigue-related incidents. Fleet managers are better able to manage driver and vehicle compliance using a reliable fleet management telematics solution. For more information on our fully customizable SaaS solutions, please get in touch with one of our customer representatives.

Our Compliance Solutions Include:

Hours of Service and IFTA
Remote DTCO download for Europe
Electronic work diaries in Australia
Tachograph recording and download
Driver behavior monitoring
In-cab video
Electronic road inspection forms
Driver logs
Personal and business mode switch
Driver identification

How Telematics Software Manages Compliance

Driver Hours and Fatigue

In terms of fleet compliance, the spotlight has been on drivers’ hours for quite some time. The monitoring of drivers’ hours is legally enforced for a very good reason – safety. It protects the wellbeing of drivers by ensuring that they take regular breaks while driving for work to reduce fatigue.

Driver Identification and Privacy

What’s more is that tools like driver identification and mode switching between personal and business mode, further help to meet fleet compliance requirements. Driver identification ensures that the correct information is linked to the correct driver.

Mode switching allows drivers to have more control over their privacy and prevents travel to and from home to sites or for lunch breaks being included in their working hours.

Electronic Logging

Most driving hours regulations, such as the FMCSA’s, require a type of ELD (electronic logging device) or tachograph to log drivers’ hours, dependent on what country or region a fleet operates in.

MiX by Powerfleet have ELDs and other tools that suit your specific compliance requirements. Your fleet can collect all the relevant information electronically, with little to no input from operators or supervisors once the software and hardware is installed, and officials are able to easily download electronic logs during roadside inspections.

Real-Time Alerts

After-the-fact intervention is not ideal. MiX by Powerfleet compliance software offers immediate alerts as soon as a defined compliance parameter has been violated by a driver.

This ensures that fleet operators and fleet supervisors can immediately intervene to avoid potential crashes and fines.

Tampering Prevention

MiX by Powerfleet has decades of experience in the field of compliance and knows the pitfalls of installing compliance-related hardware in vehicles.

We ensure that our devices are tamperproof so that driving hours always remain correct, to prevent fatigue, and to reduce the risk of potential time theft.

DID YOU KNOW?

A study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimated that 328,000 crashes occur annually because of drowsy or fatigued driving. 109,000 of these crashes result in injury and 6,400 are fatal.

The Efficiency Benefits Of A Compliant Fleet

Ensuring your fleet is compliant not only increases the safety of your drivers while reducing fines, but it also optimizes the efficiency of your operations. Here are four ways that compliance solutions do this:

Reduced Overtime Woes

Overtime is significantly reduced with automated time logs and..

IMPROVED CUSTOMER BILLING

Improved Customer Billing

If your services rely on, for example, hourly billing, accurate billing is essential..

PAYROLL SORTED

Payroll Sorted

Timesheet fraud - when a driver is paid for work they never did or time spent on..

PAYROLL SORTED

Utilization Optimization

Capturing drivers’ hours electronically can improve fleet vehicle utilization..

If You Want To Learn More About How A Compliant Fleet Can Benefit The Overall Efficiency Of Your Operations, Check Out Our White Paper On The Topic:

Mix Hours Of Service

Mix’s Compliance-Specific Solution

MiX Hours of Service is a telematics solution and electronic logging offering that covers the entire operational business process of driver fatigue management; namely, the assignment of driving hours rules, measurement of driver activities, real-time intervention and reporting for audit and continuous improvement purposes. MiX Hours of Service facilitates the recording of driving and “not driving” states without the need for driver input, which reduces the potential for human error. Data collected by MiX Hours of Service is amalgamated on one software platform for easy access and analysis. It offers a sophisticated breakdown of individuals’ driving hours, work hours and off-duty/rest hours. This solution not only simplifies adherence to driving hours rules, but also keeps drivers safe and productive.

Centralized driver management

Monitor and manage driver hours through a single interface.

Log viewing and editing

Drivers, managers and authorities can view driver logs in real-time as either a graph or table summary, with driver status data editing available for specific scenarios

Comprehensive rule set support

MiX Hours of Service caters for both regulated and non-regulated driving hours environments and supports all required regulatory HOS rule sets by region. It also enables the implementation of company-specific HOS rules.

Real-time alerts

Managers receive real-time alerts should a driver violate defined parameters for immediate intervention.

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