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Eco-Driving is the name for Driver Efficiency in EMEA.
External factors such as vehicle weight and elevation changes can impact driver behavior and potentially lead to lower driver scores in the Driver Efficiency Report. To ensure your drivers are scored as fairly as possible, the Difficulty column in the Driver Efficiency Report provides you with added context on average vehicle weight and topography. In addition, to incentivize your drivers to use wear-free braking (such as engine braking and retarder braking), instead of friction braking (use of the brake pedal), a new driver metric, Wear-free Braking, is now included within the report.
To learn more about each feature, select a scoring factor:
Driver behavior can be impacted by vehicle weight as well as terrain, which is why Samsara provides visibility into Difficulty over a given period of time (e.g. one month), based on three scores displayed in the Dificulty Summary. To view the Difficulty Summary, hover over the Difficulty score for an individual driver. At this time, the difficulty score is only shown as additional context and does not impact the actual driver scoring.
The Difficulty Summary includes the following information:
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Overall difficulty score |
The combined average, rounded up, for Topography and Weight scores. An overall difficulty score makes it easier to compare the difficulty level that drivers had to operate in that was out of their control. For vehicles that don't report average vehicle weight, the overall difficulty score equals the Topography score. For example, if a Topography score is 2, and the Weight score is 5, the average is 3.5. Rounded up this results in an overall difficulty score of 4. |
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Weight |
The average gross weight of all vehicles (including trailer and load) driven during a period. Currently available for J1939 (HGV) vehicles only. 1-5 scores for average vehicle weight is defined by the following:
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Topography |
Also known as high grade driving, this is the time spent driving on high grade rows greater than 2%, either uphill or downhill. The elevation data comes from vehicle GPS data. 1-5 scores for Topography are defined by the following:
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Currently available for J1939 (HGV) vehicles only, Wear-free braking is a metric that measures braking time that uses wear-free braking rather than friction braking (pedal braking). Wear-free braking includes engine braking and retarder braking (for example, exhaust braking or hydraulic braking), and reduces brake wear and lowers fuel consumption.
The Wear-free braking metric is turned off by default so your drivers score will be impacted initially. To see the metric in the dashboard for all your vehicles, turn on the setting for at least one profile within Driver Efficiency settings, such as a test profile with no vehicles assigned, otherwise the metric column will be hidden.
After you turn on Wear-free braking, you can also adjust its mapping for each score profile within Driver Efficiency settings.
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