Dupré Logistics Sees 67% Accident Reduction with Predictive Analytics

Thanks to Predictive Analytics truck driving is about to become safer. Truck safety has always been a major concern and with today’s new technologies available to many carriers accidents can be reduced substantially. We were excited to see this story on TruckingInfo.com, about Dupré Logistics' amazing accident reduction statistics. Dupré Logistics, of Lafayette, LA, has adopted a predictive analytics technology which helps identify risk potential and allow its safety team to make corrections, resulting in significant accident reduction. Dupré has partnered with Fleet Risk Advisors to implement Advanced Predictive Analytics, a modeling system that aggregates data and presents potential accidents to the fleet's management team, before they happen. As a result, accidents have been reduced by 67 percent since 2004. What this means is that if a driver is identified as “at risk” for an accident, he or she is counseled by Dupré's management team to adjust the risk factors identified. As a result, a driver who has gone through the targeted risk management training, counseling, schedule adjustment or programs suggested by management, is 50 percent less likely to have an accident within the next month. "This is a major factor in moving us closer to our vision of being the safest transportation and logistics company in North America," says Tom Voelkel, Dupré's president and COO. "Predictive modeling helps us see the future today and gives us the opportunity to create the future that we want tomorrow." Dupré monitors all of their drivers by aggregating onboard computer data, and placing the drivers into three different tiers, top, middle, and bottom. The top and middles are left alone, but the bottom tier receives all the attention and counseling. This also lets management focus only on the drivers who are at risk, rather than pouring all their energies into the other drivers who don't need it. The Dupré team has designed a suite of targeted risk management and performance monitoring strategies, including:  

Focused driver training programs 
New safety field representative training 
Terminal and management scorecards 
Driver scorecards and enhanced incentive programs 
Alerts from in-vehicle technology
Dispatch training.

We're all about driver safety here at Driver Solutions, so we're very impressed by Dupré Logistics figures. Hopefully we'll see this kind of thinking make its way through the entire industry.