Press release - Trimble

During Road Safety Week Trimble is supporting the UK’s leading road safety charity, Brake, in its call for fleets to be fitted with telematics technology to reduce the number of accidents on our roads.

 

Recognising that driver safety is now at the top of the list for many businesses, Trimble and Brake have joined together to create a campaign, calling on CEOs and other senior management to test their own driving style, receiving free Trimble hardware in their vehicle which will monitor their driver style and provide them with a safety assessment to see just how well they fare out on the road.

 

Brake believes that such technology, already in use in the commercial sector, should be used to help companies ensure they are doing everything possible to understand and manage the issue of road risk.

 

Brake’s Road Safety Week campaign, which began on November 22 calls for telematics to be more widely implemented to really take hold of health and safety with in businesses running fleets.

 

Trimble, one of the leading UK telematics companies has been quick to lend support to the campaign, following the release of its DriverSafety solution that helps businesses meet Brake’s goal of reducing crashes through better, safer driving.

 

Trimble MRM provides the country’s leading operators of vehicle fleets with solutions that now include a dashboard-mounted traffic light system that can be vital in helping drivers understand their driving behaviour and make changes.  

 

The solution works by using sophisticated GPS know-how to track speeds against local speed limit and also monitors potentially dangerous driving manoeuvres, indicating to the driver through red, amber and green lights whether they are driving safely.

 

Trimble MRM launched DriverSafety to the commercial fleet sector in October.

“Our DriverSafety solution is popular with the commercial sector as many companies are becoming even more focused on operating their fleets safely and responsibly,” says Andrew Yeoman, MD of Trimble MRM.

 

“We believe our technology helps drivers handle their vehicles more safely and are proud to support Brake during Road Safety Week and look forward to working with them on this crucial area that needs both focus and improvement.”

 

“Vehicles driven for work are the highest-mileage on our roads, so their safety is paramount,” says Katie Shephard from the road safety charity, Brake. “Surveys show, due to the pressures of work, that fleet drivers are more likely than other drivers to admit to speeding, talking on a mobile phone and driving when tired, so management of driver safety by companies is vital.”

 

Recognising that Driver Safety is now at the top of the list for many businesses, Trimble and Brake have joined together to create a campaign, calling on CEOs and other senior management to test their own driving style, receiving free Trimble hardware in their vehicle which will monitor their driver style and provide them with a safety assessment to see just how well they fare out on the road.

 

This will be promoted through Brake’s Fleet Safety Forum.

 

 

Trimble’s Mobile Resource Management (MRM) Division is a leading, global provider of end-to-end solutions designed to help businesses optimise fleet performance and the service delivery process by automating the management of their mobile workers, their mobile workers' work and their mobile workers' assets in the field.

 

Trimble MRM solutions can help fleet operators and field service providers reduce operating costs while increasing mobile worker productivity and customer service. Trimble MRM solutions leverage state-of-the-art technologies, including next-generation high-speed wireless communications, GPS, hosted and licensed software applications, transaction processing and the Internet. Capable of integrating with most back-office software applications for enterprise-wide functionality, Trimble MRM benefits companies across numerous business processes.

 

Trimble won the Van Fleet Awards 2010 ‘Telematics Supplier of the Year Award’. Trimble was also highly commended for the Green Fleet 2010 ‘IT Innovation Award’.

 

Trimble was also shortlisted for the 2010 Fleet News ‘Innovation in Technology’ Award and is a finalist for the Orange Innovation Award at this year’s National Business Awards 2010.

 

 

Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

 

For more information visit www.trimble.com

 

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