How Nirvana Insurance helps Five Star Trucking leverage data to reduce costs

“Nirvana gets an accurate picture of fleet performance to achieve true, fair pricing for carriers. Fleets like ours, who care about safety, want to pay for their appropriate risk.”
Joe Gramc – President, Five Star Trucking

Five Star Trucking got its start in 1974, operating between Ohio and eight Western states. Nearly 50 years later, and passed down through multiple generations, the family business has expanded to a 48-state truckload carrier and full brokerage, taking pride in its high employee retention rates.

But Five Star is no stranger to the challenges of today’s fleet — from maintaining federal and local safety regulations to integrating the latest technology to enhance safety, operations, and further reduce costs. The latter is a great challenge for fleets like Five Star, as such tools are often out of budget for smaller fleets. Five Star found the technology and safety program partner they were searching for in the most unexpected of places — their insurance carrier.

Getting the full picture with the Nirvana Safety Platform

“Seeing how little traditional insurers are involved with their policyholders never made sense to me, because there’s so much that can go wrong,” said Joe Gramc, president of Five Star. “The team at Nirvana is always responsive to our policy and compliance questions and they do an excellent job providing us with all the information and resources we need.”

Five Star became interested in Nirvana because of the use of in-cab telematics to generate personalized insurance rates based on miles driven and driver safety.

“Compiling data in a way we can easily see and understand helps bring our attention exactly where it needs to be...”

Improving outcomes with the Nirvana Safety Program

Five Star Trucking recently renewed with Nirvana after a great first year of partnership, and looks forward to another year of savings and continued improvement to their safety program as a result of this partnership.

“Nirvana helped us do even more than what we accomplished as an already-safe fleet. At renewal time with Nirvana, there weren’t any surprises.”

See how your fleet can follow Five Star Trucking’s footsteps and proactively cut costs.

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