Graph titled 'Large Truck Fatal Crashes' showing trends from 2010 to 2019 for insurance cost per mile, fatalities reported, and fatal crashes. Green bars represent insurance costs, orange line is fatalities reported, blue line is fatal crashes.

The number of fatal crashes in the United States involving large trucks has been increasing annually since 2009 reach over 5,000 fatalities in 2020. Certain high-profile crashes have brought increased media attention to safety problems that plague the trucking industry. Pressure is being brought to bear to improve safety for the industry and the traveling public.

Scatter plot comparing 2022 net income as a percentage of revenue with insurance and claims as a percentage of net income for various logistics and transportation companies. The plot includes trend lines, with companies like YRC Freight, U.S. Express Enterprises, and Old Dominion being highlighted. The blue dots represent net income percentage, and the red dots represent insurance and claims percentage. The axes range from 0% to 100% for net income and 0% to 25% for insurance claims, with key percentages and company names labeled along the x-axis.

Road-Aware, in a thoughtful company program to enhance safety, can be reasonably expected that savings in crash claims of 18% or about $2,000 per year per truck in reduced premiums or the equivalent payouts for crash claims. Savings for a 250 unit company would be in the order of $550,000 a year.

Table comparing costs of tires and brake system for different driver types, showing national average, light foot, and lead foot drivers, with costs per 100k miles and additional costs for hard driving.

Hard driving is a high risk, high cost behavior not easily tracked or managed. Hard acceleration or braking is a driving event when more force than normal is applied to the vehicle’s brake or accelerator. Often referred to as 'lead foot' syndrome, and it can be an indicator of aggressive or unsafe driving. At the very least, this style of driving is wasteful and uneconomic.