Smarter Tech, Stronger Teams: Making Innovation Work For Your Fleet
Rusty Weiss and Steve Wilhelms explore how AI-powered solutions are revolutionizing software development, business operations, and security. The pair discuss how AI accelerates software testing, enhances predictive analytics, and streamlines workflow automation. Real-world examples highlight AI-driven tools optimizing manufacturing maintenance, strengthening cybersecurity, and automating back-office processes. The discussion also covers the role of AI in regulatory compliance and the future of AI-powered innovation.
The Coaching Exchange:
Using Data to Drive Safer, Smarter Fleets
In this insightful session, Rusty Weiss and Clay Merches explored how data-driven strategies can improve fleet safety, enhance driver performance, and ensure compliance. The discussion focused on leveraging technology to optimize fleet management, reduce risks, and create a culture of continuous improvement.
Driving Success in 2025: Strengthening Customer Relationships with Data-Driven Solutions
Uncover the power of data-driven strategies to enhance customer relationships and achieve success in 2025. Presenters dive into the evolution of customer insights, highlighting the role of advanced data analytics and predictive tools in creating meaningful connections. Real-world examples include personalized engagement strategies, proactive customer support, and loyalty-building initiatives driven by actionable data. Learn how to prepare for a data-first approach by centralizing customer information, leveraging real-time analytics, and automating touchpoints for maximum impact.
AI Success Starts with Data
Discover AI's transformative potential in fleet operations with a focus on data-driven strategies for 2025. Presenters detail AI's development, from machine learning to generative AI, and its applications in transportation, such as route optimization and predictive analysis. Real-world use cases include monitoring driver behavior and collision prediction, supported by case studies of AI-driven insights. Learn to prepare for AI integration by centralizing data, digitizing legacy records, and automating tasks.
Fuel Efficiency Mastery: Best Practices for Fleet Managers
Explore strategies to optimize fuel usage, starting with equipment selection based on terrain, climate, and haul types, and the use of anti-idle technologies like APUs. This webinar highlights aerodynamic enhancements such as trailer tails and side skirts, alongside maintaining proper tire profiles and axle ratios. Learn how to establish seasonal MPG baselines, coach drivers on efficient behaviors, and incentivize improvements with fuel-based bonuses. This session also showcases tools like FleetFidelity for integrating ELD and GPS data to monitor progress and identify improvement opportunities.
Fleet Decision-Making Perfected: Insights from Industry Experts & FleetFidelity
This webinar addresses challenges in fleet management, such as plateaued performance and misaligned KPIs, emphasizing the need for actionable insights. It introduces leading indicators like idle time and Top Gear performance to enhance KPI structures and integrate them with Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs). Learn about tailored coaching with driver scorecards and peer comparisons, as well as how FleetFidelity supports proactive decision-making by streamlining data, integrating systems, and analyzing seasonal trends.
Navigating the Detention Dilemma: Insights into Driver Detention in Trucking
Explore the significant impact of driver detention on operational efficiency, safety, and driver welfare, with an estimated $6.5 billion lost annually. The discussion highlights challenges in defining detention and its effects, including reduced driver compensation and safety risks like aggressive driving. Mitigation strategies include insights from an upcoming FMCSA study focused on dwell time, scheduling inefficiencies, and their impact on driver hours.
Driver Safety and Behavior Monitoring
The "Driver Safety and Behavior Monitoring" webinar emphasizes the importance of addressing safety risks and enhancing driver behavior through tools like dual-facing cameras and advanced software. It highlights the role of third-party systems and AI for real-time CDL monitoring, compliance checks, and crash trend analysis. Key topics include using trigger events like fatigue detection to inform training programs and leveraging video feedback for behavior modification. The webinar also introduces FleetFidelity, a platform for unified performance monitoring, and recommends a crawl-walk-run approach for effective implementation.
Fleet Safety Series: HOS and General Requirements
Get a detailed overview of Hours of Service (HOS) regulations under Section 395, emphasizing key rules for property-carrying vehicles, including the 11-hour, 14-hour, 30-minute break, and 60/70-hour limits. This webinar covers legal break formats, the split sleeper berth rule, and guidelines for personal conveyance to ensure proper usage. Learn about ELD compliance, including mandatory documentation, reporting malfunctions, and best practices for accurate log entries, particularly for sleeper berth usage.
Fleet Safety Series: Motor Carrier Driver Record Requirements
This webinar covers the essentials of maintaining compliant driver qualification files under Section 391.51, emphasizing the 12 required elements such as employment history and address details. Learn best practices for recordkeeping, including proper employment application documentation, road test certifications, and verifying physicians through the National Registry to meet FMCSA medical compliance standards.
Fleet Safety Series: Regulations that Impact Motor Carriers the Most
The "Fleet Safety Series: Regulations that Impact Motor Carriers the Most" webinar highlights three key compliance areas: driver compliance, equipment compliance, and motor carrier responsibilities. It explores CDL requirements under Section 383, disqualifications for major violations, and critical regulations like Section 393 (manufacturer compliance standards) and Section 396 (vehicle maintenance). Gain insights into using FMCSA SMS tools to track roadside inspection performance and address common violations, including lights, tires, and brakes, to ensure regulatory adherence and operational efficiency.
Fleet Safety Series: Driver Qualifications
This webinar delves into FMCSA regulations under Section 391, highlighting the seven key requirements for driver qualifications, such as age, English proficiency, and physical standards. It also covers disqualification criteria, including serious traffic violations, out-of-service infractions, and device misuse, with an emphasis on associated penalties. Learn best practices like conducting thorough road tests and utilizing third-party tools to streamline driver applications and maintain compliance.
Fleet Safety Series: Safety Fitness Procedures
Get a comprehensive look at FMCSA safety fitness procedures, emphasizing regulatory compliance and the importance of addressing acute and critical violations. Key topics include the six FMCSA safety factors—such as accident ratios, driver qualifications, and vehicle maintenance—and appendix regulations (49 CFR 385). Gain insights into managing compliance through mock audits, software tools, and data integration dashboards, along with best practices to enhance Fleet Safety Ratings and ensure adherence to federal standards.