Logistics & Freight

The logistics and freight industry plays a critical role in global trade, with fleets of trucks and delivery vehicles transporting goods over long distances, often through varying road conditions and challenging environments. Ensuring the safety of both drivers and the public is paramount, as logistics operations are inherently high-risk due to the long hours on the road, vehicle fatigue, and tight delivery schedules.

Fleet operators face challenges such as driver fatigue, distracted driving, and blind spots, all of which increase the risk of accidents. Additionally, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, maintaining operational efficiency, and minimising downtime are key priorities for logistics companies. Any incident, whether minor or severe, can disrupt supply chains, leading to costly delays and reputational damage.

MAX-SAFE offers a range of safety solutions designed to mitigate these risks, helping logistics and freight companies enhance fleet safety and reduce accidents. Our products, including driver behaviour monitoring, advanced vision systems, seatbelt warning systems, and audible warning systems, are tailored to the unique needs of logistics fleets, ensuring that drivers and cargo arrive safely and on time.

Logistics & Freight

Benefits of MAX-SAFE Safety Solutions
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Improved Driver Safety

Logistics and freight drivers often work long hours under pressure, which can lead to fatigue and distraction on the road. MAX-SAFE Driver Behaviour Monitoring Systems provide real-time data on driving habits, helping to identify risky behaviours such as harsh braking, speeding, or prolonged periods without rest. By alerting drivers to these risks and coaching them on safe driving practices, our solutions reduce the likelihood of accidents, ensuring drivers remain alert and responsive during long-haul journeys.
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Enhanced Fleet Efficiency

Maintaining operational efficiency is a top priority for logistics companies, as delays and breakdowns can severely impact supply chains. MAX-SAFE Advanced Safety Systems, including the Vision System and Seatbelt Warning System™, help prevent accidents that cause downtime and costly repairs. By improving fleet safety, companies can reduce accident-related delays, minimise insurance premiums, and keep their vehicles on the road, ensuring that deliveries remain on schedule and operational costs are kept in check.
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Compliance with Safety Regulations

The logistics industry is subject to stringent safety regulations, with companies required to ensure that their vehicles are equipped with appropriate safety measures. MAX-SAFE's suite of solutions, including Audible Warning™ Systems and Driver Monitoring Technologies, helps logistics operators meet these regulatory requirements. By implementing proactive safety measures, companies can avoid fines and legal complications while demonstrating a commitment to the safety of their drivers and the public.

Relevant Products for Logistics and Freight

The MAX-SAFE Anti-Rollaway Brake System™ is a key safety feature for logistics and freight vehicles, preventing rollaway incidents caused by driver oversight. This system automatically applies the brakes if the park brake is not properly engaged, ensuring that vehicles remain stationary during operations.

In a high-pressure environment like transporting goods, where vehicles frequently stop and start, the anti-rollaway system reduces the risk of accidents, protects equipment from damage, and ensures the safety of both drivers and the public.


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The MAX-SAFE Vision System provides drivers with full visibility of their surroundings, minimising blind spot-related accidents. Using AI-powered cameras and machine learning, the system detects nearby vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles, providing drivers with visual and audible alerts.

This system is especially valuable for logistics fleets operating in congested urban areas or in low-visibility conditions, where the risk of incidents is higher. The MAX-SAFE Vision System enhances situational awareness, helping drivers navigate safely and avoid collisions that can disrupt delivery schedules and cause damage to vehicles or goods.

Heavy vehicles in the logistics and freight industry often have significant blind spots, creating hazards for both drivers and nearby workers. The MAX-SAFE Protect 360 AI and MAX-SAFE Reverse Watch™ systems help eliminate these risks by detecting people, vehicles, and obstacles within the driver’s blind spots.

With 360-degree coverage and AI-powered camera technology, this system provides both visual and audible alerts to ensure drivers are always aware of their surroundings. By reducing blind spot accidents during loading, unloading, reversing and on-road operations, logistics companies can improve site and road safety while protecting workers, vehicles and cargo from harm.

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The MAX-SAFE VRU Protection systems are vital for logistics and freight vehicles operating in busy urban environments. Utilising advanced radar and AI-powered cameras, these systems identify and alert drivers to nearby pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users, significantly reducing collision risks.

These safety solutions provide real-time visual and audible warnings, ensuring drivers remain fully aware and responsive during deliveries or transport operations. By preventing incidents and enhancing driver awareness, MAX-SAFE VRU Protection systems protect people, safeguards your fleet, and keeps your operations running smoothly.


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Customer Story: Connetics


Connetics is a New Zealand company responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining overhead and underground lines used for utility and infrastructure services. The company operates out of depots in Wellington, Christchurch, and Central Otago with a fleet of 280 vehicles that includes crane trucks, bucket trucks and tippers, many of which can be called upon 24 hours a day.

Connetics has become one of the first companies in New Zealand to install the MAX-SAFE Anti-Rollaway Brake System™ on a range of vehicles.

While searching for safety solutions for cranes, Connetics discovered an ideal active braking solution that could work across their entire fleet, improving safety outcomes.


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