Grand Island Express Chooses Lytx DriveCam™ as Partner in Its Family Approach to Creating Safer Drivers

The DriveCam^® exception-based video safety program combines video capture of road incidents such as hard braking or sudden swerving, data analysis of those incidents, and personalized coaching insights to improve driving behavior. Today, Lytx^® helps protect more than 650,000 commercial and government fleet drivers under its DriveCam program.

The powerful combination of DriveCam video and coaching insights have helped Grand Island keep its CSA scores so low that they're broadcast front and center on the company website. The Grand Island fleet achieves those scores without sacrificing their 98 percent on-time delivery record.

Grand Island Express Safety Director Lucas Mowrey, a former driver himself, says that the DriveCam program has helped them live up to the Grand Island motto that "there is no load so important that we can't take the time to deliver it safely."

"It's hard to get hired here. You have to have a clean record to start with, but nobody's perfect," he said. "I'm not asking for perfection, but I am striving for it. I believe we can be the safest fleet."

One of the first lessons Mowrey and his team learned following the DriveCam deployment was that just about 10 to 20 percent of the drivers needed extra attention to improve safety, and that coaching has to be personalized. Even the small things, he learned, were important, like coaching on following distance to minimize the likelihood of rear-end collisions.

"It's tough to coach over the phone," he said. "The coaching experience completely changes when it's in person; you're able to see who takes it to heart." Mowrey added that he was pleasantly surprised by how positively the coaching with DriveCam video clips has been received.

"We have one driver who wants to go back and review his video clips every night – it's not what I expected," he said.  "We have a truly great group of drivers, and all I'm asking is that they understand what they can do differently to improve safety."

Grand Island first tried self-service dash cams in every truck but found them to be unreliable, and when they did work, it could take days to get the video from the SD card. He knew they had to find another solution, and heard about DriveCam from a peer.

Grand Island skipped a trial and went straight to deployment, Mowrey said, because "we believed in the technology and the success rate has been high."

Grand Island's safety record is so good that its fleet was recently named the Nebraska Trucking Association's Safest Fleet Grand Champion, a designation that Mowrey says the DriveCam program helped them earn.

About Lytx

At Lytx® we harness the power of data to change human behavior and help good companies become even better. Our flagship service, Lytx DriveCam^™ sets the standard for driver safety in the industries we serve, and our RAIR^® Compliance Services helps DOT-regulated fleets comply with safety regulations, complementing the DriveCam^® Program. Lytx ActiveVision^® service helps fleets detect and address distracted and drowsy driving, both in real time and over time, and the Unisyn™ platform offers video without limits for fleets and field operations of any profile. We protect more than 1,500 commercial and government fleet clients worldwide who drive billions of miles. We enable our clients to realize significant ROI by lowering operating and insurance costs, while achieving greater efficiency and compliance. Most of all, we strive to help save lives – on our roads and in our communities, every day. Lytx is privately held and headquartered in San Diego. For more information, visit www.lytx.com, @lytx on Twitter, or on our YouTube channel.

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