Aggressive Driving report

The Aggressive Driving report allows you to monitor and analyze aggressive driving behavior.

The report identifies aggressive driving based on three key metrics:

  • Hard acceleration: The sudden or aggressive increase in a vehicle's speed.

  • Harsh braking: The sudden application of a vehicle's brakes. This results in a rapid and abrupt decrease in speed.

  • Harsh cornering: Taking turns with excessive speed or with aggressive steering. This results in a rapid, sudden change in the vehicle's direction.

These metrics are governed based on vehicle size. If the settings in your database for harsh driving are too sensitive or not sensitive enough, you can customize them to your needs on the Rules page.

You can customize the report to show aggressive driving organized by asset or driver. Running the report by driver allows you to track aggressive driving accurately even if drivers change vehicles during the workday.

Harsh driving settings

Harsh driving settings are based on vehicle size and can be customized to suit your needs.

MyGeotab uses a sliding scale to customize feedback on harsh driving. This is because extensive testing shows that different vehicle classes react differently to G-forces. This scale lets you set feedback rules specific to the vehicles in your fleet. The scale ranges between passenger car on the left-hand side, truck/cube van in the middle, and heavy-duty on the right. The scale becomes more sensitive as you move left to right.

The following table displays G-force exertions for the three main vehicles classes:

EventPassenger Car (G)Truck/Cube Van (G)Heavy-Duty (G)
Harsh Braking< −0.61< −0.54< −0.47
Harsh Acceleration> 0.43> 0.34> 0.29
Harsh Cornering> 0.47 & < −0.47> 0.4 & < −0.4> 0.32 & < −0.32

While these default values are generally suited for most fleets, they are easy to customize using the slider. We recommend starting in the middle of the vehicle class you are customizing for, and adjusting from there based on the data you collect.

The harsh driving rules on the Rules page, showing the sliding scales used to adjust sensitivity for each rule.

Your vehicles' function and location are key when setting driver feedback sensitivity. For example, an ambulance needs closer monitoring than a delivery truck. Alternatively, an off-road vehicle should be less sensitive than a vehicle used in a city. Fleet managers should monitor the events from harsh driving rules. Using this data, they can then adjust the sensitivity to fit their specific needs.

Viewing the Aggressive Driving report

Learn how to view the Aggressive Driving report to track harsh driving in your fleet.

  1. Navigate to Groups & Rules > Exceptions in the main menu.
  2. Select the groups you want to include in the report using the Groups dropdown.
  3. Select a date range for the report.
  4. Select whether you want to run the report by asset or by driver.
  5. Select the assets you want to include in the report.
    The page automatically filters to apply your selections.
  6. View the report in the format of your choice:
    1. Click Reports > Summary > Aggressive Driving to download the report as an Excel file.
    2. Click Reports > Summary > Aggressive Driving More actions menu > Prepare PDF to download a PDF copy of the report.

Depending on the size of your report, it may take some time to generate. Navigate to Reports > My Reports to view its status.