CarChip can help fleet managers improve driver safety, decrease property damage, and improve the bottom line—all at the same time.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "driver and employee awareness of an onboard event data recorder reduces the number and severity of drivers’ crashes" because people who are aware of being observed tend to modify their behavior. 

Like the event data recorders (EDRs) studied by the NHTSA, Car-Chip can help you establish an ongoing fleet safety program. But unlike those EDRs, CarChip is economical enough for use by everybody from large fleets equipping thousands of vehicles, to local courier services with just a handful of drivers.

CarChip’s computer software lets you view the speed, distance, accelerations, and decelerations for each trip. With this data in hand, you can assign points for violations, or reward employees who maintain clean driving records. In the case of an accident, you can review the vehicle’s speed, throttle position, engine RPM, and brake use to determine if the accident was due to recklessness or driver error, or to events outside the driver’s control.

Because CarChip logs the time and date for each trip, it provides an easy way to document time-in-service records. And because it records the time and date every time the unit is disconnected, it’s tamper-resistant. The data logger can also be swapped from vehicle to vehicle with no loss of data, and you can track multiple data loggers on a single PC.

In the NHTSA studies, annual accident costs were reduced by 40 to 60%. Whether or not you achieve results quite this dramatic, CarChip will still pay for itself in less than a year. A fleet of 100 vehicles can expect an annual accident-related expenses to top $280,000, based on an average accident rate of 20%.5 If you outfitted all 100 vehicles with a CarChipE/X, you’d need to see a reduction in accident-related costs of just 6.5% to breakeven in the first year—an easy-to-justify investment in both your drivers’ well-being and the company’s.

• Each year, about 20% of all fleet drivers are involved in an on-the-job vehicle accident, compared to the 6% of workers in other occupations who suffer an on-the-job injury or illness.

• Highway accidents are the leading cause of on-the-job fatalities, accounting for almost 25% of the total.

• Installation of onboard event data recorders can reduce the number of accidents 20 to 30%, lower their severity, and decrease their costs 40 to 60%