GreenRoad, a specialist in driver performance and fuel efficiency, has announced that City Link, the UK's leading premium express delivery company, has gone live with GreenRoad 360 in 280 vans at 14 depots throughout the country.
City Link says it chose GreenRoad because the system offers great potential to reduce fuel consumption, road incidents and general wear-and-tear of vehicles. All depots have seen an improvement in driving skills since GreenRoad started giving drivers feedback on their driving, and the number of potentially hazardous manoeuvres has dropped substantially.
Zurich, one of GreenRoad’s insurance partners and one of the world’s largest fleet insurers, introduced City Link and its parent company, Rentokil Initial, to GreenRoad in order to reduce collision claims rate and insurance premiums. In turn, Zurich will gain new insight into City Link’s fleet risk through detailed analysis of driver behaviour.
Zurich introduced City Link to GreenRoad, who are one of a panel of vendors, as part of its global integrated fleet risk management solution, Zurich Fleet Intelligence (ZFI). "Since launching Zurich Fleet Intelligence (ZFI) in September 2010 we have seen strong interest from a number of our customers who are keen to reduce their collision rates. As one of our panel of six vendor partners, GreenRoad, has been instrumental in helping us explain and implement the ZFI proposition with our customers," said Nick List, proposition manager for Zurich Fleet Intelligence.
"ZFI adds an important element to our portfolio of risk engineering solutions, allowing our customers to obtain a dynamic risk assessment of their employees through the driver behaviour data that we obtain from their vehicles. This data gives us insight into the possible root causes of these behaviours, which allows us to suggest the appropriate interventions that supplement any other risk management initiatives already in place. In the short time since ZFI was launched, we are already seeing positive trends in driver behaviours, and collision rates, in those customers who have implemented and embraced the technology and who have integrated it into their work-related road risk management programmes," List said.
