brainstoming_aug

I am assuming that we would get a lot of info from the police reports of the accidents like location, time of day, weather conditions, highway or not highway, speeding or not, etc. Also, couldn't we pull the hours logged for the driver from the human resource dept? We also could get info from HR as to the experience of the drivers who are in these accidents. Is the company only hiring drivers right out of driving school or are they hiring some drivers with quite a few years experience? Equipment problems should have a log for the maintenance dept and we could go there to see how long the turn around on fixing said problems take. Now the communication issues are a different story. I could certainly see interviews and questionnaires being helpful in that aspect. So, I think interviews and questionnaires could be helpful and a good idea but we should gather some data with some other avenues as well.

Shanda: Nice questions. I think that creating an interview/questionnaire for these different people is a good idea for some external data as well as some hard facts on the accidents themselves.

I was thinking also that we might take the experience question a step further to see what experience the drivers with the accidents had. Are they the ones just out of driver's training or the ones with more experience? How much experience?

What about cell phone usage? How are the dispatchers communicating with the drivers? Are the accidents occurring around the same time as these communications?
Rhonda

Hmm, I just thought of something else as I was looking through some of my papers.

What driver's training have the drivers had? Do the majority of the ones having accidents come from the same training school? Even though the drivers live around the country, the training school could be national, too. I may be WAY out there, but it's a thought.
Rhonda

New studies from NTSB indicate that "distracted driver" caused accidents are on the rise. This would include cell phone usage.

Dianne