This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit on Wednesday.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Navigating an ever-changing safety landscape
DETAILS: Daniel Patterson, director of safety at truckload carrier Western Express, discusses the ways his company is addressing safety challenges in trucking.
KEY QUOTES FROM PATTERSON:
On tailored orientation programs: “The driver that’s been to different companies before and has some experience as an over-the-road driver is a much different driver [from the one] that graduated truck driving school and we’re his first company.”
On adaptive-speed technology: “It’s on every one of our trucks. If [our drivers] are at a customer’s yard, we can geofence that truck to the customer yard speed limit.”
On AI cameras on trucks: “It kind of skips that middleman where it’s auto-classifying. We can review the data and then do training based on that.”
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The day before F3. Every compliance issue you face - fraud exposure, carrier liability, FMCSA rules, cargo theft, insurance gaps - navigated by attorneys and operators defining best practices in a changing industry.
The Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo • Chattanooga, TN Register NowThe night before F3. FreightTech100 companies honored. FreightTech 25 and Shipper of Choice winners revealed live. Cocktail reception into dinner and live music - 300 industry leaders in one purpose-built room.
The Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo • Chattanooga, TN Register NowIndustry-defining keynotes, rapid-fire technology demos, and industry leaders networking in experiences across Chattanooga - plus the inaugural F3 Awards Dinner featuring the FreightTech and Shipper of Choice reveals.
The Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo • Chattanooga, TN Register Now