Case Study: Martin Preferred Foods achieves 46% safety-score improvement, 82% increase in seat-belt compliance, and 68% reduction in distracted driving with SmartDrive Systems

Martin Preferred Foods - Customer Case Study

Martin Preferred Foods, a 70‑year‑old food distributor operating a 50‑vehicle private fleet across Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, needed to strengthen fleet safety after the FMCSA’s CSA program highlighted the importance of proactive risk management. Leadership wanted to ensure drivers followed rules on speeding, seat belt use and distracted driving and needed a way to identify risky behavior even when it hadn’t yet caused an incident.

They deployed the SmartDrive video‑based safety program to capture daily in‑cab footage, which revealed previously overlooked poor driving and enabled fair, consistent coaching conversations. The configurable solution gave managers clear snapshots of individual and fleet performance, driving a 46% improvement in safety score, an 82% increase in seat belt compliance and a 68% reduction in distracted driving.

Martin Preferred Foods

Scott Fry

Director of Transportation