Description
Fleet Essentials offers an online driver safety training program consisting of four courses. The three Fleet Essentials core courses are Driving Professionally, Distracted Fleet Driver, and Vehicle Dynamics. In addition, all three vehicle specific courses are included: Passenger Vehicles, Cargo Vans and Medium-Duty Trucks.
Objectives:
Review the key characteristics of professional fleet drivers, and cover strategies employees can use to represent your company well while operating a fleet vehicle.
Explain the effects of distracted driving on driving performance, the unique sources of driver distractions for the fleet driver and how to eliminate distractions in the fleet vehicle.
Cover the importance of vehicle familiarization and physical forces such as inertia, gravity and velocity and how they impact vehicle handling.
Learners will understand:
Passenger Vehicles covers essential content on vehicle-specific topics such as backing, dynamics, inspections, and safety.
Cargo Vans are often longer, heavier and taller, and have unique controls and dashboard designs, affecting how you drive and what measures are needed to avoid incidents and crashes.
Medium-Duty Trucks vary with customized configurations to meet the specific requirements of the job. They are much heavier, longer, and taller than passenger vehicles. The differences in height, length, size, design, configuration, and dynamics affects how you drive and what you will do to prevent crashes and collisions.
