The top logistics organizations achieved an average Injury Severity Score (ISS) score of 34.17, significantly outperforming the FMCSA intervention threshold of 65 and surpassing the broader private fleet benchmark average of 46.33, according to Fleet Advantage’s Truck Reliability and Usage Safety Tracker (TRUST) Safety Index.
“The logistics sector continues evolving rapidly, particularly as organizations expand transportation delivery capabilities and navigate increasingly sophisticated supply chain demands,” says Katerina Jones, chief marketing officer for Fleet Advantage. “Our latest TRUST Safety Index provides logistics companies with valuable insight into how leading organizations are performing from a safety, compliance, and operational efficiency standpoint. These benchmarks help organizations with transportation fleets identify opportunities to reduce risk exposure, improve CSA performance, lower maintenance costs, and ultimately strengthen long-term operational continuity.”
Key takeaways:
· The TRUST Safety Index offers critical, data-driven insights into compliance, safety, and accountability (CSA) performance, maintenance trends, and operational risk exposure, while offering benchmarking data against national safety standards and private fleets.
- Unsafe driving BASIC scores averaged 18.08, compared to the national intervention threshold of 65.
- Hours-of-Service BASIC scores averaged 41.91, below the national intervention threshold of 65.
- Total out-of-service inspection percentages measured 9.28% vs. the national average of 20.18%, which has increased compared to last year’s benchmark, underscoring a broader deterioration in national fleet compliance performance.
- Taken together, these scores reflect a safety performance profile that is notably stronger than national safety benchmarks.
- However, the underlying violation patterns, such as tires driving the majority of maintenance violations, dangerous driving behaviors comprising the bulk of unsafe driving citations, and log inaccuracies representing a significant share of HOS violations, signal where even top performers should focus continuous improvement efforts.
- Furthermore, “Brakes, All Other” account for 42% of total vehicle maintenance violations. Inspectors placed 14.3% of inspected vehicles out of service after identifying brake-related safety violations serious enough to make continued operation hazardous.
