Entrepreneur Column Urges Fleet Safety Systems as Firms Scale

Service businesses that add vehicles and technicians as they grow should formalize driver screening, maintenance and crash response rather than relying on added insurance coverage, according to a contributor column published by Entrepreneur on October 13, 2026.

The column argued that driving exposure rises quietly alongside revenue and headcount, and that habits workable at five employees — approving drivers informally, servicing vans when someone mentions a noise — fail at 50 because no one person has the full picture. It offered a test for owners: whether a new operations manager could say who is authorized to drive, when each vehicle was last serviced and what a driver should do in the first hour after a collision without calling the owner.

Recommended steps included a written driver qualification standard, a single roster of approved drivers and vehicles maintained by one named employee, a short vehicle policy covering phone use and fatigue, realistic route buffers, daily walkaround inspections and a log of near misses reviewed monthly.

The piece also flagged employees using personal vehicles for work, advising owners to confirm with their broker how coverage applies before a claim is filed.

This story was first reported by entrepreneur.com.