AutoSense has appointed Steve Fielding as Chief Revenue Officer, strengthening its leadership team as the fleet safety provider accelerates its growth across Australia and New Zealand.

AutoSense has appointed Steve Fielding as Chief Revenue Officer, strengthening its leadership team as the fleet safety provider accelerates its growth across Australia and New Zealand.

As Australia continues to strengthen its approach to heavy vehicle safety and fatigue management, our understanding of driver fatigue is evolving too.

A driver's alertness starts unravelling days before they get behind the wheel — and half a billion kilometres of data are showing us why. AutoSense's Charles Dawson on why fatigue management needs to move beyond the rulebook and into the human factors behind it.

By Charles Dawson, CEO, AutoSense Australia For a long time, fleet safety has been built around compliance. Logbooks, policies and procedures all have their place. But they’re designed to show rules are being followed, not whether risk is actually being managed in real time. That gap is becoming harder to ignore. A driver can be fully compliant on paper and still be operating in a state of significant impairment. Poor sleep, disrupted routines, or underlying fatigue can all i

Easter travel, disrupted sleep and shifting daylight hours are set to collide in a perfect storm on New Zealand roads this long weekend - a period already associated with heightened road trauma.

Routine changes, increased traffic and seasonal shifts could impact driver alertness – even before a shift begins. Easter may bring quieter roads for some operators, but fatigue experts are warning it can also introduce less visible and often underestimated risks for fleet safety.

Eighty-two per cent of work-related fatalities in New Zealand’s transport and warehousing sector involve vehicles[1], underscoring what safety leaders describe as one of the under-governed workplace risks. AutoSense CEO Charles Dawson says that while vehicle incidents remain one of the most common causes of workplace death[2] in New Zealand, for many organisations, it is a health and safety blind spot. “Driving is the work activity most likely to result in serious harm[3], ye

AutoSense, a leading New Zealand provider of fleet and driver safety solutions, is strengthening its presence in Australia with the launch of LifeSaver Mobile, a first-of-its-kind app designed to stop distracted driving before it starts.

Mobile-phone distraction remains one of the biggest risks for drivers, with Waka Kotahi data showing that in the past three years, 283 drivers in fatal or injury crashes were distracted by a phone....

As schools return for term one, New Zealand roads are about to re-enter their most dangerous daily window - and it’s not late at night or on long-haul routes.

Greg Murphy still remembers the moment his life changed behind the wheel. Driving late at night, tired, and with alcohol still in his system, on a road he’d driven “heaps of times before,” he lost control of his Datsun 1200 – spinning 180 degrees, sliding down a bank and hitting trees, one of which struck just inches behind the passenger seat.

Building on the success of the Transport Leaders Forum, AutoSense presents the newly named NZ Fleet Forum — returning to Auckland and Christchurch in February 2026 with a powerful agenda that puts driver wellbeing firmly in the spotlight. Hosted by AutoSense and proudly sponsored by NZI, the Fleet Forum equips fleet managers and business leaders with practical tools and insights to support both light- and heavy-vehicle drivers. The focus this year is on the critical link betw

In the Driver’s Seat with Greg Murphy reveals driving confessions Greg ‘Murph’ Murphy is hitting the streets with In the Driver’s Seat, a bold new podcast that’s part carpool confession, part cautionary tale and 100% homegrown. Launching this September and backed by fleet and driver safety leaders AutoSense, the ten-part series invites high-profile New Zealanders to take Murph for a spin in their own cars while opening up about the lives they’ve lived — and the roads they’ve

As daylight saving begins this Sunday, Kiwis may welcome the brighter evenings and promise of summer BBQs, but the switch comes with a darker side. Health data shows the sudden disruption to body clocks has measurable consequences: hospitals in Michigan, US found heart attacks spike by 24 percent on the Monday immediately following the spring shift[1], while a 2024 review of 12 studies confirmed a four percent increase in risk across the two weeks that follow[2] setting clock

AutoSense Vision Focus provides reassurance for drivers and fleet managers For more than five years, Guardian by Seeing Machines cameras have become the standard across the entire Foodstuffs North Island fleet, including all company-owned trucks and owner-driver units, and even overflow vehicles. The driver safety system is proven to detect driver fatigue and distraction. Fleet Safety Manager Blair Inglis, says since April 2025 the business has doubled down and started introd

L->R: Santiago Aon (Fonterra, Director Global Supply Chain), Deena Clarkson (CE, Coda Group), Charles Dawson (AutoSense CEO), Lee Thorburn (Fonterra - Commercial Network Manager Global Supply Chain) We’re proud to share that Coda Group has been recognised with the Leadership Award at the 2025 New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards. The award, which AutoSense had the honour of nominating them for, acknowledges Coda’s exceptional commitment to tackling driver fatigue an

AutoSense backs Street Smart to close the youth driver safety gap They’re driving less, but crashing more. Globally Gen Z’s licence numbers are down – yet their crash stats keep climbing. Ride-sharing, environmental concerns, urban living and financial barriers are causing young drivers to delay getting their driving licence. In the US, licence holding among 16-year-olds dropped from around 46 percent in 1983 to just 25 percent in 2022[1]. New Zealand youth make up only 13 pe

Entries now open to celebrate road safety excellence Entries are now open for the 2025 Australasian Fleet Champions Awards, and organiser, road safety charity Brake, is pleased to announce fleet and driver safety solutions provider AutoSense as the headline sponsor for this year’s awards. The awards, run through Brake’s Global Fleet Champions initiative, recognise organisations and individuals committed to improving fleet safety across Australasia. Caroline Perry, Brake’s N

How policy can prevent the next tragedy. When a driver sent 45 Snapchat messages from behind the wheel of her truck before ploughing the 30-tonne truck and trailer unit into a stationery ute last year, the driver of the ute was killed[1]. New Zealand vehicle safety and training experts AutoSense says the tragedy underscores the importance for businesses to have safeguards in place to protect their workforce from more preventable harm on our roads. The safety business has inst