Fleet Safety Training

ADSI provides comprehensive training for Fleet Drivers.
Our programs provide the hands-on training your employees need to reduce your company's liability and ensure their safety while driving. In today's world of litigation, NOT providing adequate training for your employees can expose your company to a lawsuit from the parties involved in an accident and possibly from YOUR employee as well.

Statistics

Research by DOT, Bureau of Labor Statistics and other research groups shows:
  • 31% of American workers who loose their lives on the job did so while driving a vehicle. (NETS)
  • Annually nearly twice as many people are killed in the work place as a result of traffic accidents than for any other reason. (NETS)
  • The average vehicle accident expense is $16,500. When there is bodily injury $75,000. When a fatality occurs costs can exceed $500,000. (NETS)
  • Whether they occur on or off the job, motor vehicle crashes cost employers a staggering $60 billion each year. (NETS)

Expect your employees to return with a heightened understanding of their vehicle's capabilities, better educated on how their vision and processing systems work, as well as a sense of pride and accomplishment. An excellent Team Building experience while improving the company's bottom line through:

  • Fewer Accidents
  • Less Employee and Car Down Time
  • Improved Productivity
  • Lower Vehicle Insurance Costs

Program

Although most clients choose to customize each training program to better fit their company fleet's specific needs, a typical 8 hour Vehicle Control Clinic consists of a two to three hour lecture and four hours of hands-on driving.

Lecture topics include but are not limited to:

  • Common Driver Issues - distractions and attitude
  • Dynamics of a crash
  • Accepting and Minimizing Risk
  • Restraints - seat belts, air bags
  • Vision - Eyes and Mind
  • Problem Identifiers - Anticipating and recognizing visual clues.
  • Increasing your line of sight
  • Time, Distance and escape routes
  • Night and inclement weather driving
  • Tire talk
  • Vehicle Dynamics - weight transfer and controlling force
  • Braking & Turning both ABS and NON-ABS
  • Traction Control and Anti-Roll Features

Hands-on Exercises include but not limited to:

  • Proper hand and seat placement
  • Slalom - Steering control and Spatial awareness
  • Brake & Turn (ABS and/or Non-ABS braking covered)
  • Evasive Maneuver/Emergency lane changes
  • Backing with control and increased line of sight
  • Following Distance Drill
  • Mirror adjustment for minimizing the blind spot

Our exercises are mathematically proven, as well as designed to have a real world application. Each student will leave our program with a heightened level of awareness, confidence, and most of all a new respect and understanding for their vehicle and the environment that they drive through everyday.

National Safety Council DDC-4

Also available through ADSI is this nationally recognized defensive driving course is a great way for the individual to save time, money, aggravation, injury, and most of all lives. Participants learn essential defensive driving techniques that can reduce collision-related costs, injuries, and fatalities. Using DDC-4 can help reduce insurance claims, lost work time and vehicle repairs by lowering the number or collisions. Recognized by many insurance companies.

Course Content

Rules, Regulations and Responsibilities:

  • Benefits of Defensive Driving
  • The Triple Crash
  • Child Safety Seats
  • Air Bags and Safety Belts
  • Drugs and Their Effects on Driving

Driving Conditions:

  • The Three Second Rule
  • Controlling a Skid
  • Driving Environment
  • Anti-Lock Brake Systems
  • Proper Vehicle Maintenance
  • Fatigue

Unsafe Driving Behaviors:

  • "Sinister Six"
  • Speeding and Speed Limits
  • Right-of-way
  • Passing Tips
  • Avoiding a Head-on Crash
  • Tailgating

Aggressive Driving versus Road Rage:

  • Developing the "Safe Attitude"
  • Dealing with Aggressive Drivers - Reducing Stress and Aggression

Instructor Certification Course

Designed for Law Enforcement or Corporate Security and Fleet Driving Instructors. This four day course is a must for anyone designing their own in-house driver training program. Instructors learn how to design and measure driving exercises using a scientific approach. Instructing, coaching and objectively evaluating students will also be covered in great depth. Participants will experience actual training situations, and get plenty of practice behind the wheel. One of the most realistic and scientifically based courses available. More ...

Customized Classes

To better assist our clients:

  • ADSI can customize any or our programs
  • Create new programs specifically designed for your organization
  • Add specialized requested training to our current programs
  • Create new class dates to fit your company's schedule
  • Arrange private lessons (Home Facility)
  • Instructors bring students to a proficient level at the student's pace and ability level
  • Structure program to fit client's budgetary needs.

Mobile Training Units

On the client's request ADSI can deploy Mobile Training Units that provide the analysis, planning and training for a full range of client requirements virtually anywhere in the world at just about any time. Also available within the U.S. ADSI has many established satellite locations.

Student Performance

In each of our programs the students' performance is accurately and objectively measured. On request from the client, a written evaluation can be submitted for employee's records. This is also a good way to show driver development year to year. Students must reach clearly defined goals and objectives, in order to successfully complete our course. The average driver uses only 30 - 40% of the vehicle's capabilities. At the end of our 1-day course, graduates will have acquired the skills to use 70% - 80% of the vehicle's capabilities. This percentage can be increased even farther with additional training.