Episode #5
Fleet Safety Is Culture, Not Telematics | Andrew Hutson, Geosecure
A telematics system will not make your fleet safe. Andrew Hutson has spent 25 years in theindustry, and he says the fleets that actually improve are the ones where the executive ownssafety, not the ones with the best kit.In this episode:- Why safety has to be endorsed at executive level rather than owned by one department, and how the Awards judges reached the same conclusion reading the nominations.- Why data only counts when it is accurate and actionable, and why a driver covering 50km a week cannot be fairly compared to one covering a thousand until the data is normalised.- Why sustainability starts with how a fleet operates rather than what it buys, and how route optimisation cuts vehicles, congestion and idling before a single EV is ordered.(0:00) Intro(1:32) Why Geosecure backed the Awards(2:54) What Geosecure does(3:57) How telematics changed in a decade(5:18) The award categories(5:57) What a genuinely safe fleet looks like(7:19) What the judges saw in the nominations(7:46) Where local government fleets are constrained(9:01) Fleet Technology: data you can act on(10:29) Data for something, not for its own sake(12:33) Fleet Sustainability: more than EVs(14:19) A finalist that changed its operations(15:23) Fleet of the Year: doing everything right(17:00) Why strategy is what wins(18:19) Awards night and how to voteAndrew Hutson is a Director at Geosecure, a telematics and fleet management safety provider. Hehas worked in telematics across the UK, North America and Australia. Your host is Marc Sibbald,Editor at Fleet News Group.Voting for the 2026 Fleet News Group Awards is open now at fleetnewsgroup.com.au. Awards night is14 October.Subscribe to Fleet News Group: https://bit.ly/fleet-news-subscribeGeosecure is a Foundation Sponsor of the 2026 Fleet News Group Awards. This episode includesdiscussion of Geosecure's business and its Awards sponsorship.
