Thinking about your teen driving can be both nerve-wracking and frightening, to say the least. While they (should have) passed their driving exams and you should have some confidence in their driving abilities, you can’t account for distractions on the road or other drivers. Luckily, there are new teen driver technologies that can help young drivers stay safe on the road, and thereby ease your mind.

Teen Driving Apps

Some teen driving apps, like the Life360 app, are designed to keep families in the loop. This app uses location monitoring so parents can know if their teens made it safely to their friend’s house, or are back home when they should be. Plus, it allows you to monitor speed, and it even sends text alerts in response to hard braking, fast accelerations, and even crashes.

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As spring comes into the horizon and the weather gets warmer, it’s important to start thinking about cleaning up your fleet and handling maintenance tasks before the summer months. Getting a head start on maintenance is always a good idea: it improves safety for your drivers, plus it keeps your vehicles in good working condition for longer. Below are 13 spring fleet maintenance tips to keep your fleet running smoothly into summer.

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Importance of Observing Distracted Driving Awareness Month

Did you know that distracted driving is the biggest reason for all vehicle collisions? Vehicle collisions can be dangerous, even fatal, and at the very least they are costly for everybody involved. Practicing distracted driver awareness means noticing ways you and other drivers may be distracted on the road and trying to reduce any distractions in the future. Many people may be unaware of the ways that they are driving distracted, possibly because they think it is benign or have been doing it for so long.

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Getting your teen on the road is a daunting prospect for nearly every parent and guardian. While you may not have to drive them around to their activities and friends’ houses like you used to, every parent worries about their teen driving recklessly and getting into an accident. We can’t help ourselves, because we know how far they have to go until they’re a fully functional adult with a developed brain, but we can’t stop them.

Luckily there are some steps we can take to ensure that our teens are as safe as possible on the road. In this article, we will discuss 10 tips to encourage your teen to drive safely.

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As technology moves forward, we are given the option to jump on board, or stay with our traditions and stick with what we know. Although it may sometimes be beneficial to stick to what you know and not be too hasty to jump onto the next technological fad, other times it can cost people their business. One example of this is GPS trackers for fleet drivers, which actually isn’t a fad, but has been around for decades, with many of GPS first technologies implemented in the mid to late 1970’s.

GPS tracking has quickly moved from an additional bonus to managing truck fleets to an essential part of the smooth operations of the company. This is because a fleet business that doesn’t track its drivers and vehicles, simply can’t compare or keep up with one that does.

Below, we will discuss 10 big drawbacks for not tracking your fleet drivers.

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