Isuzu Australia’s chief of product, Matt Sakhaie says following Isuzu’s latest ‘The Future of Trucking’ (FoT) report data, that it’s comforting to see safety as a core focus for the future of the business.
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The report sees a collective desire on safer conditions for all road users, and an emphasis on driver wellbeing in the truck world.
Sakhaie says there’s been a steady march of improvements in automotive safety technology over the years, including developments the world had once thought impossible.
“What we’ve seen of late, especially in the truck world, is Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and regulators working in tandem to lift the safety bar, ensuring cutting–edge safety technology can be a more viable proposition for many brands competing in global and domestic markets alike,” he says.
One glimpse into the cabin of a modern truck these days and you can see how far this corner of automotive research and development has come.”
Powered by smart cameras and sensors, the list of safety acronyms applied to modern trucks nowadays is comprehensive to say the least.”
Isuzu has found that all fleets are continuing to adopt technology that leads to a safer environment for both truckies and other road users.
Sakhaie says safety technology remains a headline purchase consideration for many business types.
“Undisputable too are the links between compliance observance and the winning of profitable contracts, especially at the top end of fleet and logistics operations in Australia,” he says.
“In some ways, safety technology adoption is as much about compliance obligations as it is about ensuring people are kept safe, whilst also leveraging systems that help boost revenue generation and keep people in a job.
“It’s no surprise then that improved truck safety features are more widely prioritised by businesses with larger fleets and given the scale this group operates at, logically there’s a higher uptake across all major safety technology markers.”
According to FoT data, Aussie fleets are using active safety features classified as ‘pre-collision’ safety systems, with the ‘big two’ being the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) that 44 per cent of Australian fleets actively use, and Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), which 43 per cent heavily rely on.
“We can see that a combination of sensor-based, driver-aid technology, including Lane Keep Assist and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) all came in high up the list of new safety technology that businesses are considering in the coming five years.”
The trend here is more heavily weighted towards collision prevention and ensuring the longevity and resale of critical capital equipment.”
With the average age of Australia’s truck parc hovering at around the 14-year mark, the ongoing challenge for transport and transport-reliant businesses will be the requirement to update and maintain the veracity of truck safety and new technology features.”
With more advanced, safer capital equipment comes greater efficiencies in numerous areas, including reduced emissions, improved fuel economy and superior overall business efficiencies.”
Sakhaie concludes by saying Isuzu’s ongoing collective value of onboard vehicle safety technology will save more lives, create safer roads and better working conditions for truck drivers.
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