New Berlin, Wis.-based risk management firm, HNI, announced it has launched the Transportation DART System, a performance management platform that captures metrics on productivity, safety and fuel efficiency for drivers and driver managers.
The company said demand for performance scorecards and visualization dashboards has skyrocketed in the transportation industry. Motor carriers are gathering more data on their fleets than ever before via electronic logging devices, and growing regulations have introduced an increasingly complex set of metrics to manage to.
The Transportation DART System aggregates measurements from data sources a company already has in place (including tools like McCleod, PeopleNet, and Qualcomm) and assigns relative weights to available metrics to reflect their impact on profitability. These weighted metrics are then merged into a single score that is provided to a driver and their manager.
“The true purpose of a scorecard is not to measure performance. It is to change behavior,” said Mike Natalizio, CEO of HNI. “DART is an acronym representing key elements of a performance-driven organization. It stands for defined, aligned, refined and timed. To translate analytics into actionable goals, these are critical.”
Monthly results show an individual driver their rank within the fleet, their trends over time and highlight opportunities for improvement. Automated distribution of results and interactive dashboards allow managers to focus on coaching and driver retention rather than crunching numbers.
HNI’s flagship client in pioneering this approach was Nussbaum Transportation. With their performance management system, dubbed the Driver Excelerator, they have seen driver turnover plummet to 30 percent and realized a 26 percent improvement in fuel mileage after just two years.
The DART System is available for demonstration via HNI’s website.
HNI offers insurance, benefits and business advisory services.
Source: HNI
Topics Personal Auto
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