Census: “Where exactly and what kind of freight is going to what kind of people,” Bryan says. Historical weather data, overlaid on other data, can reveal unanticipated patterns involving safety, routing, pricing and other things. “Whether it’s onboard vehicle, back office, government – wherever it lurks, we’re trying to pull all of it together into one unified analytic predictive platform.”
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In the first week following Athena’s February launch, after months of customer testing, Vigillo brought on about a dozen carriers representing about 7,000 drivers as Athena clients.Īthena “takes a holistic view of everything,” says Steve Bryan, Vigillo chief executive officer. Athena “is less about modeling and more about putting data in a format and comparing the data and analyzing the data any way you want,” he says. John Christner expanded its data-crunching in late 2013 when it began using a FleetRisk Advisors retention module, says Crowley, who sees that as more of a pure predictive-analytics tool. Lanes that have more inspection stations experience prolonged delivery times, so the fleet might adjust pricing accordingly. “If you start to see that, and if you can be proactive and intervene with folks before there are patterns of violations you can’t ignore and have to terminate leases over, that’s a retention tool.”Īthena’s data also should prove effective in various operations areas, he says. Having more detailed and current violation data should be able to help with retention, Crowley says. “This is where the world’s going – to a more data-driven decision-making process.” –Steven Bryan of Vigillo Athena can help the fleet craft a periodic report about points dropping off or coming on, and help alleviate customer concerns when scores are too high. One of the biggest uses for the fleet might be the ability to educate its customers about the inevitable problems with CSA alerts, he says. It appears to be “a pretty incredible product,” says Shannon Crowley, vice president of risk management for John Christner, an all-owner-operator fleet based in Sapulpa, Okla. John Christner Trucking this year began using Athena, a product Vigillo calls its “state-of-the-art big data platform and the answer to the business intelligence challenges facing the trucking industry.” Vigillo has been the industry’s leader in gathering and reselling data from the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. It emphasizes improving safety, efficiency and profitability.
Athena uses a broad range of data, from driver-generated and CSA-related to information from areas such as weather reports and population density stats. John Christner Trucking uses Athena, a new product from Vigillo, the industry’s leader in CSA data analysis. This story is the second of three remaining installments that examine three data management systems and three fleets that use them, with varying degrees of predictive analytics, to improve retention, safety or both.
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Part 1 of this series surveyed the predictive analytics landscape among trucking companies and the economy at large. They aim to head them off before they happen. Now, with the help of companies that specialize in collecting and analyzing data, fleets are trying to go beyond identifying problems.
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The company operates more than 575 trucks and logged more than 70 million miles in 2002.Fleets for years have used performance data in driver scorecards to help identify and address problems. John Christner achieved an accident frequency rate of 0.305 per one million miles in 2002, which marked a slight improvement in comparison to the previous year’s figure of 0.328. That’s the main reason we’re able to achieve our goals and win awards like this." It makes all the difference to have good people on the road. John Christner attributes its success to several factors, including its young fleet of equipment, high maintenance standards, focus on safety and the quality of its drivers.īill Wilson, safety director for John Christner, emphasized the impact drivers have on building outstanding safety records, stating, "We do careful screening when hiring new drivers, which is where it all starts. The honor is given each year to the company recording the lowest accident frequency rate, while running more than five million miles within a year. recently recognized John Christner Trucking for outstanding safety, presenting the company with the 2002 Large Fleet Safety Award at the association’s 2003 Midwinter Safety Conference.
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