Your drivers/operators represent you and your company when they are on the road. Are you concerned about their driving skills and habits?

What is Driver Evaluation?

Driver Evaluation assesses an individual’s ability to operate a vehicle safely and determines strengths/limitations in the physical, visual, cognitive, and perceptual domains. The action results in specific recommendations for adaptive devices, vehicle type, vehicle modifications, and a driver-training program.

On The Road Driver Evaluation

Company Vehicles

               
One of the most important ingredients of an efficient and profitable transportation service is safe driving skills. A major investment in equipment is a frozen asset until a driver gets behind the wheel, starts the engine and puts the vehicle to work. The degree of skill with which the vehicle is operated will affect the amount of and quality of service it will provide, the vehicle service life span and the number of traffic accidents in which it will be involved. In order to protect this investment, management must ensure that their drivers possess a high degree of safe driving skills. A professional driver evaluation will assist you in making that determination. The evaluation process would measure a driver’s ability to perform a driving task while interacting with traffic and environmental conditions. It is much more than a skill test.

Other Drivers

A considerable amount of time is spent on the road by these other drivers, whether it is just commuting to and from work or in conducting their daily duties. This valuable human resource is your largest asset. This asset can also be protected by the degree of safe driving skills that these employees possess. As stated before the evaluation process would measure a driver’s ability to perform a driving task while interacting with traffic and environmental conditions.

Format

An evaluation route will be developed consisting of all available driving environments that the driver might encounter, including: rural, residential, suburban, urban and highway. The route will be divided into evaluation and recording zones.

Test sequences will be developed for each environment incorporating two to four driving tasks within each sequence. Each sequence will present the driver with a traffic problem, which requires judgment and a decision to resolve.

Recording will occur at the conclusion of each test sequence. An overall evaluation report will be produced.

What is the Evaluator looking for?

The evaluation provides the driver/operator with valuable immediate feedback. This practical one-on-one evaluation session is conducted in your specific vehicle on road and during your hours of operation.
As you may now recognize the Driver Evaluation is very important however this is a separate and optional aspect of defensive driving

NB. The evaluation is optional and can be dome before or after the Defensive Driving Course.