Nothing can derail a trucking company’s track record of success than an avoidable accident, either on the road or in the office.
Of course, some incidents are truly accidents, unpredictable incidents that couldn’t be avoided. But there are others that could be headed off before they ever occur with proper preparation and planning for such situations.
To truly get everything you can out of your commercial trucking company, you need to establish a track record of caution and safety in order to ensure such preventable incidents don’t occur when least wanted.
Here are some pro tips for running a safe commercial trucking company:
- Create a safety program, stick to it, and make improvements as needed. The first step in promoting safety is planning for it. A culture of safety isn’t just conjured out of nothing. Creating a safety program will give you a road map to guide you to success and something to stick to when challenges arise. Revisions may be needed to make it better, but a foundational plan is the place to start.
- Ask your insurance carrier for a loss control review. Loss control is designed to reduce or fully prevent loss suffered from accidents, illness or property damage. Your insurance company, via Fleet Risk Solutions, can study your workplace and identify aspects of the job that are most likely to lead to such loss and then create counter measures to try and mitigate any such issues.
- Take care of your drivers. Trucks are major aspects of your trucking business, obviously, but they can’t go anywhere without someone behind the wheel. By ensuring your drivers are kept safe and unharmed on the job, you can make sure they’re more likely to stick around and keep driving for you. Driver turnover can cost a company $6,000 per empty truck per week, so keeping your drivers on the job and unharmed is essential to a successful trucking company.
- Always be willing to learn and stay current on the industry. Sometimes owners can get too focused on own operations and lose sight of what the rest of the field is doing. You won’t come up with every great idea on your own. Other trucking companies will evolve their own safety procedures that might greatly benefit your own company if you keep an eye on what they’re doing and find ways to adapt it to your own trucking fleet.
Safety is an essential aspect of the job for any successful trucking company.
With the help of a company such as Fleet Risk Solutions, you can take the steps necessary to make safety a natural byproduct of doing business at your trucking company. They have a number of plans and policies that can foster safety on the job if implemented and followed as necessary.
By partnering with Fleet Risk Solutions, you can create a culture of safety around your own trucking company and make sure your drivers, fleet and overall business avoid danger and harm and stay on the road to success.
About the Author
Logan utilizes a holistic approach to assist trucking companies with growth, and survival in one of the most volatile times in our history. A strong risk management program is critical for every business, but trucking companies are extremely susceptible to breaks in the risk management process. Maintenance violations, driver violations, breakdowns, driver turnover, and the list goes on, all have a domino effect on each other, and the cost of operating a trucking company.