Platform / Safety Scoring
Most safety scoring counts events: ten hard-braking alerts beats two, end of story — even if all ten happened the same afternoon. SAFE Core scores patterns instead. The methodology comes from managing 100+ fleets and watching which data points actually predict risk — not from a product team theorizing about what should.
Ten camera events, all on one brutal Tuesday. Clean the rest of the month.
Ten camera events, spread across twenty days. Every week looks the same.
How often coachable behavior shows up, not how many events one day produced. Only validated events count.
How consistently violations and process errors recur over time, tracked at the log level.
Not just completion, but how promptly. Responsiveness is a leading signal of whether a driver is in the program or ignoring it.
The ratio of clean roadside inspections to those with findings over a trailing window.
Federal violation history, weighted the way FMCSA weighs it: recent and severe counts more.
Severity-classified with time decay; near-misses count as early signals.
The fleet score works the same way at the operation level — normalized to fleet size, so a 20-truck fleet and a 200-truck fleet are judged proportionally, not by absolute event counts. And because the behavioral dimensions aggregate from individual drivers, fixing a problem — coaching that lands, training that sticks, or parting ways with a driver — moves the fleet score immediately. No waiting for a trailing average to notice.
Score dimensions map to the data that drives BASIC percentiles. Improving the score improves what FMCSA measures, because underneath, they’re the same behaviors.
The score is the starting point. What matters is the coaching, training, and compliance workflow it triggers — and the trajectory it produces.
