Doucette (left) obtained the award on the 2024 Fleet Security Convention from Mike Joyce (proper) of the American Automotive Leasing Affiliation (proper) and Bobit Affiliate Writer Chris Brown.
Photograph: Ross Stewart Pictures
As Sr. Supervisor of EHS at Advance Auto Components (AAP), Sandra Doucette spearheaded a fleet security technique for 19,000 autos that considerably decreased preventable losses, claims, and prices for the corporate.
For her management and initiatives bettering security discount in collision frequency, severity, value, and general threat, Doucette earned the 2024 Fleet Security Award.
The Fleet Security Award was introduced by the American Automotive Leasing Affiliation (AALA) and Automotive Fleet journal on the latest Fleet Security Convention in San Diego from Nov. 6-8.
“This annual award acknowledges a person and group who’ve gone above and past in demonstrating excellence in fleet security. They’ve confirmed their management, innovation, and measurable outcomes in the direction of enhancing the security of their staff and all who share the highway with them,” Mike Joyce, AALA govt director, stated.
Doucette Acknowledged for Empowering Drivers and Decreasing Prices
“I might prefer to thank our companions at CEI and Ingredient for the nomination and the AALA for his or her choice,” Doucette stated on the award ceremony.
Doucette presently leads the security packages that assist a community of retail and driving crew members working throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
“Six years in the past, I had the privilege of becoming a member of Advance Auto Components. Our aim was to enhance the protection strategy and construct a best-in-class fleet security program. For me, this meant staying targeted on our perception that at Advance, our persons are our greatest half,” Doucette stated in her acceptance speech.
“So, how do you defend and empower your better part? Set clear expectations, delegate duty, give constructive suggestions, and present appreciation,” Doucette continued.
By means of her administration of enhanced driver coaching, telematics, and threat administration instruments, AAP’s mid-year 2023 vs. 2024 efficiency metrics enhance accounted for 88 preventable claims and restore value avoidance of $468,539 primarily based on the common restore quantity of $5,308 for preventable claims.
To fulfill their security goals, AAP has a 4-pillar strategy, together with:
- Advance Driver Program: Establishes a basis for defensive driving abilities.
- SmartDrive Cameras: Offers a platform to enhance driver abilities by figuring out and training dangerous behaviors.
- CEI DriverCare: Enhances the driving force screening course of by means of steady MVR monitoring, managing eligibility, and mixing threat knowledge from varied knowledge streams right into a single driver threat profile. The profile contains knowledge from vehicle-based telematics, MVRs, accident historical past, and extra.
- Predictive Instruments: Utilizing telematics knowledge to realize well timed visibility into driver behaviors and react shortly to remediate.
AAP measures security by taking a look at discount in collision frequency, severity/value, and general threat. By combining AAP’s mission along with her administration fashion, there have been clear outcomes proven within the firm’s mid-year 2023 vs. 2024 efficiency metrics for security:
- Preventable losses: -28%
- Complete claims: -14%
- IPMM: -11%
- PPMM: -25%
- Rental spend: -17%
- Complete Losses: -10%
“Whereas these financial financial savings are instrumental to our enterprise, I like that this program helps to ship every crew member dwelling to their household after each shift and serve our communities safely,” Doucette defined.
AAP’s Security Program Reduces Danger and Acknowledges Excellence
AAP has established a complete security program involving drug/alcohol testing, driver coaching, and telematics, together with SmartDrive cameras to observe and coach driver habits. This system’s advantages embrace addressing dangerous behaviors shortly, enhancing manager-driver engagement, and supporting legal responsibility claims.
Moreover, AAP’s District Outlier Program identifies high-collision areas. It mandates further coaching and ride-alongs for these shops, aligning with their ADVANCE Driving Program, which focuses on defensive driving strategies.
AAP tracks collisions by specializing in the collision frequency charge (CFR), distinguishing between recordable and non-recordable incidents. Recordable collisions contain accidents or harm, whereas non-recordable incidents lack bodily damage or vital collision harm.
The CEI DriverCare Danger Supervisor Program, integrating steady MVR monitoring, SmartDrive cameras, and collision metrics, helps AAP’s ongoing efforts to scale back accidents and accidents. AAP stories that these security methods have considerably decreased their general fleet prices.
Along with AAP’s security measures, “Launching our Protected Driver Recognition program is, in my view, the best achievement we reached this yr,” Doucette stated. “This yr, we recognized and acknowledged over 6,000 Protected Drivers. The sector groups actually loved the popularity and celebrations.”
Concluding her speech, Doucette mirrored on one factor she encourages everybody within the fleet business to recollect.
“In work and in life, Our Individuals Are Our Greatest Half. Empower and encourage everybody to be their greatest.”
Award Runner-up and Finalists
The AALA fleet member corporations provoke the nominating course of by submitting candidates who they really feel greatest meet the award {qualifications}. Self-nominations from people and firms are additionally accepted.
AALA’s fleet administration executives evaluation the nominees and select the winner.
Joyce cited this yr’s runner-up as Kim Cregar, fleet supervisor at Lilly, in second place, and Douglas Shawley, security analyst on the Fairfax County (VA) Division of Car Providers, in third place.
2024 finalists embrace (in no specific order):
- Darcy Shepley, Ventura Directional Drilling, Inc.
- Amanda Rose, fleet supervisor of DOT & Driver Compliance, Ferguson Enterprises LLC
- Michael Duffy and Brian Park, transportation operation and fleet supervisor and professor within the Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Virginia
- Matt Busman, transportation security supervisor, Inontime Firm
- Jeffrey Tews, fleet operations supervisor, Metropolis of Milwaukee Division of Public Works
- Stephanie Jackson, director of security, The Wes Stewart Company
- Hiram Salcedo, supervisor – operations, Orange County Property Appraiser
- Ken Foster, director of world fleet operations, World Provide Administration & Success-Fleet Administration, Johnson Controls Inc.
- John Hatchett, director of transportation, Amedisys Inc.
- John Holland, director of security, Enterprise Logistics
- Ari Raptis, CEO and founder, Talaria LLC and Nationwide Safe Transport (NST)
