Decisiv Webinar Focuses on Meeting the Uptime Challenge

GLEN ALLEN, VA--(Marketwired - November 03, 2015) - Decisiv, Inc., the leading provider of Service Relationship Management (SRM) solutions for commercial assets announced today that its Webinar on Meeting the Uptime Challenge was highly informative for more than 150 trucking industry participants. The free event featured a series of presentations by respected industry experts.

"Discussing uptime is important because it remains an industry wide challenge," said Michael Riemer, VP Product & Channel Marketing at Decisiv. "Wrench time continues to account for a relatively small percentage of aggregate downtime for fleets, whether maintenance is performed in house or by outside service providers. Finding ways for everyone in the service supply chain to communicate and exchange information more effectively during service events, and to share responsibility for limiting downtime, is more important than ever."

Riemer also detailed how SRM technology can help reduce downtime by automating electronic inspection processes, integrating telematics and remote diagnostics systems into a closed loop system, and by ensuring frictionless access to estimate, invoice and repair data by eliminating separate silos of information, multiple portals and manual data entry.

Steven Bryan, CEO of Vigillo LLC, the provider of advanced big data and data mining software products including a widely used suite of CSA Scorecards, covered Regulatory Impacts on Fleet Efficiency. Maintenance violations are the 800-lb gorilla in CSA," he stated. "Data on more than seven million CSA inspections over the past 24 months shows that of the 12.6 million violations cited an overwhelming number -- more than 80 percent -- are in the Vehicle Maintenance BASIC category, with the top items being brakes, lights and tires."

At the same time, Bryan noted, the overall number of CSA Maintenance BASIC violations is dramatically lower than in the past. "The trucking industry has done a good job focusing on better inspections and on improving preventive maintenance," he said. "However, while you are leading the charge toward getting better, in the five years since CSA went into effect inspections have cost the industry 2,373 years of detention time and 452 of those years have been for maintenance violations."