Vigillo LLC, creators of software products designed to aggregate, organize and deliver fleet safety information, today announced the release of the Daylight Driver Index (DDI), a driver scoring system that describes an individual driver’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) record using Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) data. This new Vigillo product assigns a single number (0-100) based on information collected on commercial vehicle drivers during on-road safety inspections and state-reported CMV crash records.
“DDI is a fair, easily explained and entirely objective process of scoring and ranking drivers under CSA,” explained Steven Bryan, founder & CEO of Vigillo LLC. “It’s similar to how a credit score is a single number that describes a person’s creditworthiness.”
Because drivers’ scores in the Driver Safety Measurement System (DSMS) are not publicly available, motor carriers have struggled with how to assess driver performance. With almost three quarters of a million drivers in its aggregate customer database, Vigillo says it is uniquely qualified to offer a solution to this problem.
“Because carrier CSA scores are essentially the rolled up aggregation of individual drivers’ roadside performance,” continued Bryan, “having a single number to easily and quickly view will be of great assistance to carriers that want to improve and maintain long-term positive CSA scores.”
The Daylight Driver IndexTM offers several benefits to carriers and drivers:
• Based on published FMCSA Methodologies
• Identifies drivers for priority review based on similar factors as carriers ranked for review and roadside inspection priority (ISS)
• Uses appropriately normalized data for comparison of individual drivers
• Elevates Red Flag Violations as a high visibility item
• Highlights drivers with ‘Shadow Violations” where a driver has insufficient data in a BASIC but has violations
• Scores drivers on an consistent, easy-to-understand 0-100 scale (or NO DATA) that works across carriers for all drivers
• Included at no additional cost in Vigillo’s CSA Scorecard Subscription