Swift Transportation switches to SmartDrive video safety program

Swift Transportation has chosen to install SmartDrive Systems’ video-based safety program across its entire fleet of vehicles in the United States and Mexico. Swift joins Knight Transportation, despite both companies having merged in September 2017, to use the technology.

Swift’s decision to install the SmartDrive system within its fleets supports its commitment to safety, according to CEO Dave Jackson.

“SmartDrive allows our drivers and fleets to clearly see and measure safety performance, which allows the company to foster meaningful ownership of safety performance,” said Jackson. “SmartDrive excels in aligning drivers, operations and management around insightful and actionable metrics, allowing us to reinforce our safety culture of accountability throughout our entire organization.”

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings operates a fleet of roughly 19,300 tractors and 68,000 trailers/containers and employs 25,000 people. Headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., the company provides a full complement of truckload and logistics services throughout the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

“Knight Transportation has experienced meaningful reductions in collision rates since installing SmartDrive in its fleet. That experience was instructive in the decision, ultimately, to roll out the SmartDrive program within our Swift fleets,” commented Brett Sant, senior vice president of safety and risk management at Knight-Swift Transportation. “We are grateful for the work SmartDrive has done and the positive impact the SmartDrive team has had on our fleet’s safety.”