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CEI Urges Fleets to Participate in NETS’ Drive Safely to Work Week

By on October 3, 2016 in Accident Management, Driver safety, DriverCare, fleet safety, General, global fleet management, Truck collision support, Vocational Fleets, work truck fleets, Work trucks

Trevose, PA, October 3, 2016 – The CEI Group, Inc. today urged fleets to join the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) in its 2016 Drive Safely to Work Week campaign this week. The campaign’s theme is “Drowsy, Distracted or Focused…Your Decisions Drive Your Safety.”

“Traffic accidents remain the number one cause of on-the-job fatalities,” said Brian Kinniry, CEI senior director of strategic services. “More than 90% of collisions are caused by driver error, so avoiding impairment from fatigue, staying alert and avoiding distractions behind the wheel can eliminate thousands of needless tragedies every year.” CEI is a NETS Safety Program sponsor.

A free fleet campaign toolkit, complete with a driver self-assessment too, daily email messages, posters, web banners and other materials, is available on the NETS website; to download it, fleets can visit http://trafficsafety.org/dsww2016/index.html.

Mr. Kinniry said fleets should remember to aim safe driving communications more than its officially designated fleet drivers. “Employees who only occasionally drive their own vehicles while on company time – so-called ‘gray fleet’ drivers – and secondary drivers are just as vulnerable to errors caused by lack of attention,” he explained.

By participating in Drive Safely to Work Week, fleets can reach 50% of the U.S.… Read more

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CEI’s Ken Latzko to Speak on Innovations in Preventing Fleet Accidents at NAFA I&E 2016

By on April 14, 2016 in Accident Management, Accident Reporting, Driver safety, DriverCare, fleet safety, General, global fleet management, government fleets, subrogation, Truck collision support, Trucking, Vocational Fleets, work truck fleets, Work trucks

Trevose, PA , April 15, 2016 – Cutting edge methods to change fleet driver behavior to prevent accidents is the focus of a presentation Ken Latzko, senior director of sales for the CEI Group, Inc. , will make to attendees at the NAFA Institute and Exposition in Austin, TX, on Wednesday, April 20, at 1:15 P.M., Central Standard Time.

Mr. Latzko will be part of a two-member panel addressing “The Root Cause of Crashes: Actions Fleet Managers Must Take.” The other panel member will be Phillip Moser, vice president at Advanced Driver Training Services.

Mr. Moser will open the presentation by analyzing several real-life highway collisions to demonstrate their underlying causes, and discuss the role of driver training and fleet safety culture in reducing fleet accident rates.

Mr. Latzko will discuss how technology and the principles of human behavioral science are helping to create new ways to make fleet drivers safer, better drivers. Among the innovations he will discuss are crash prevention technology, autonomous vehicles, telematics and predictive analytics.

About CEI

CEI, a fleet driver management company, is a leading provider of technology-enhanced vehicle accident, driver safety and fleet risk management services. Its provider network consists of some 4,000 collision repair shops in North America, and includes nearly 1,000 truck collision repair centers.… Read more

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David Wallace, “The Safety Guy,” to Speak at CEI’s NAFA I&E Booth

By on March 25, 2016 in Accident Management, Accident Reporting, Driver safety, DriverCare, fleet safety, General, global fleet management, government fleets, subrogation, Truck collision support, Trucking, Vocational Fleets, work truck fleets, Work trucks

Trevose, PA March 25, 2016 – Nationally renowned safety expert David Wallace will be the featured speaker at The CEI Group Inc.’s booth at the NAFA Institute and Exposition in Austin, TX, next month.

Mr. Wallace, an assistant prosecutor and pioneer in traffic safety, founded one of the country’s first Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor program. He will speak on “The Four Steps to Creating a Traffic Safety Culture at Work” at 11 am on both Wednesday, April 20st, and Thursday April 21nd at CEI’s Booth # 501, and will be available to meet and greet visitors and answer questions before and after his talk. Mr. Wallace is affiliated with the Justice Speakers Institute.

CEI will be stressing throughout the event that fleets can reduce their accident rates by as much as 35% and save millions of dollars year with the right safety culture and systems that focus on changing driver behavior. Supported by case studies, CEI will also demonstrate that it’s possible for fleets to reduce their net accident repair expenditures by nearly 80%.

“With accident rates and traffic fatalities rising, and the epidemic of distracted driving showing no signs of weakening, it’s more important than ever that fleets adopt the most powerful safety culture and tools to prevent traffic accidents,” said CEI’s Ken Latzko, senior director of sales, who will lead CEI’s conference team.… Read more

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Global Fleet Safety Veterans Share Optimistic Outlook at CEI’s Global Fleet Driver Management Workshop

By on March 14, 2016 in Accident Management, Accident Reporting, Driver safety, DriverCare, fleet safety, General, global fleet management, government fleets, subrogation, Truck collision support, Trucking, Vocational Fleets, work truck fleets, Work trucks

Trevose, PA, March 13, 2016 – Global fleet safety performance can be significantly improved by uniform adoption of driver assessment methods, training and procedures for intervention with high-risk drivers, in spite of driving cultures that vary from country to country.

That was the consensus that emerged among the fleet professionals from around the world who attended CEI’s Global Fleet Driver Management Workshop in Philadelphia, PA last week to share their experiences and offer insights into to create and manage a global fleet safety program.

The three-day event was held at the Hotel Sofitel and drew guests and speakers from across North America, Europe and Latin America. Among the fleets that were represented included AkzoNobel, BristolMyers Squibb, Ecolab, Merck, Mondelez International, and others.

“The case studies presented by the speakers confirmed that while there may be obstacles to establishing a unified approach to fleet safety, they can be overcome when corporate fleet executives take the right steps,” said workshop host Wayne Smolda, President and CEO of the CEI Group, Inc. The key, he said, is demonstrating that a program has had success in saving lives and reducing accidents in a major country, and adapting that paradigm to each country in which a multinational fleet operates.… Read more

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CEI to Present Work Truck Fleet Money-Saving Case Studies in Accident Management and Prevention at NTEA Show

By on February 25, 2016 in Accident Management, Accident Reporting, Driver safety, DriverCare, fleet safety, General, global fleet management, government fleets, subrogation, Truck collision support, Trucking, Vocational Fleets, Work trucks

Trevose, PA, February 25, 2016 – The CEI Group, Inc. (CEI), a fleet driver management company, will offer case studies on the savings it has achieved for vocational fleets in accident repair, loss recovery, vehicle remarketing and accident prevention at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, IN. CEI will be exhibiting at Booth 117 at the Indiana Convention Center from March 2 through 4.

“The studies document that our accident management services alone can save and offset more than 50% of a fleet’s annual original repair estimates for work truck collisions,” said Ken Latzko, CEI’s senior director of sales. Mr. Latzko will lead CEI’s seven-person contingent at the trade show, including Luann Dunkerley, a member of the board of governors of the National Private Truck Council Institute.

Among the case studies CEI will present is one for a service fleet of 10,000 vehicles that implemented CEI’s DriverCare fleet safety application. The service prevented 3,525 accidents over six years, cutting the fleet’s accident rate from 36% to 25%, avoiding $92 million in repairs and saving $77.6 million in the “true costs” of fleet accidents, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Administration.

Visitors to CEI’s booth will also be offered a white paper entitled “Fleet Driver Management,” which explains CEI’s vocational fleet services and offers more real-world examples of how they generate savings.… Read more

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