Backing(Incidents(Survey( - FleetAnswers

Backing
 Incidents
 Survey
 

June
 2014
 

Utilimarc
 

Does your fleet use back-up sensors?

Value Count Percent

Yes 14 63.6%
No 8 36.4%

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Total Responses

What type of vehicles in your fleet use back-up
sensors? Select all that apply.

Value Count Percent

Sedans 10 71.4%
Pickups 9 64.3%
SUVs 10 71.4%
71.4%
Vans 10 50.0%
Service Trucks 7 35.7%
Stake/Dump Trucks 5 57.1%
Aerial Bucket Trucks 8 42.9%
6 7.1%
Diggers 1
Other (Please Specify) 14

Statistics

Total Responses

Does your fleet use back-up cameras?

Value Count Percent

Yes 19 86.4%
No 3 13.6%

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What type of vehicles in your fleet use back-up
cameras? Select all that apply.

Value Count Percent

Sedans 7 36.8%
Pickups 8 42.1%
SUVs 7 36.8%
68.4%
Vans 13 73.7%
Service Trucks 14 26.3%
Stake/Dump Trucks 5 89.5%
Aerial Bucket Trucks 17 63.2%
12 10.5%
Diggers 2
Other (Please Specify) 19

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What is the make and model of your device(s)?

Responses:

• Altec provides sensors.
• Factory installed devices.
• Hindsight 100 OEM cameras and sensors where available.
• Most devices are factory installed, aftermarket devices are Provision

T225.
• Preco Preview
• Pro vision
• Pro-Vision
• Provision TV-505A system 5" or 7" flat screen color monitor with VLI night

vision camera.
• Rear View Systems
• Rosco Vision SystemsSTSK5665
• Various
• Various makes and manufacturers
• Various. Factory installed when possible.
• We use a series of them.
• Zone Defense model zd-323.1
• Multiple make and models used
• Safety Vision SV-LCD56BA-Kit color monitor & SV-620A-Kit color rear-

vision camera

What decisions, incidents or circumstances
caused you to begin using back-up sensors or
cameras? What was the catalyst?

Responses:

• Any single operator vehicle that has poor rear visibility
• Backing accidents
• Blocked rear vision while backing, backing accidents, safety.
• High backing accidents.
• Increased driver safety
• Increased safety awareness and drivers being held accountable for

backing incidents.

• Pilots to reduce backing accidents.
• Prevent rear and back up accidents.
• back up accidents
• increase of backing crashes and personal injuries
• installation was in response to a high number of backing accidents
• our largest area of accidents from a numbers perspective were caused by

backing.

• currently running a pilot program to determine if we experience any
reduction in the number of accidents and to recieve feedback from the
operators on how the performance of the cameras impact their operations.

• We had a new company president who's main focus is employee safety. It
came out in employee safety meetings.

• Local safety teams thought it was the answer to backing accidents even
after pilot programs we ran to test backup cameras showed that the
vehicles with cameras still had backing accidents.

• Pilot study of cameras and sensors did not provide supporting data to
justify installation. Sensors were approved for service buckets because of
popularity with drivers.

• The need to add cameras was driven by our need to have a better view of
the backing area. We have even installed a couple of systems on skid
steere loaders.

Was the implementation of these devices
successful in reducing backing accidents?

Value Count Percent

Yes 4 19.1%
No 3 14.3%
Unknown 14 66.7%

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If yes, how much was the frequency of backing
accidents reduced? Please explain.

• 30%
• 8 reduced to 2 a year.
• Estimate of 50%
• Not able to specifically attribute success to device, as we did many things

at once (did more than JUST a backing device). Our overall effort with all
activities has reduced backing crashes