"The people are great work with. That’s the key. It was so easy. As soon as I call up, I get somebody on the phone. They can walk me through any situation I have.... It couldn’t be any easier, really."

Steve Kessler asks, Did you lose drivers? Pat replies “No we did not lose any drivers, not over training. Yeah we lost some drivers when we went to electronic logs years ago, yeah we lost  a few drivers. Then we went to automatic transmission, yeah we lost a few drivers. Though you weren't a truck driver unless you had a gear shift. Then we went to cameras, when we went to cameras  we lost a few drivers and we've now got a newer better camera and we've lost a couple from that but they needed to be lost. They weren't people we needed to keep." Steve Kessler asks, Since you have been with Ozark and I know you are working on culture change and you are still working on all that, can you see or could you say that you have reduced violations, accidents and incidents and has anything gone down that you can put your figure on? Pat replies “When I got there (Ozark Motor Lines) our unsafe driving score was 91 percentile and now we are at 27 percentile for unsafe driving. So yes we are making changes. I look at preventable accidents for the first six months of this year over the first six months of last year and we are down 48%. The culture that we are changing, monthly training, cameras, the things that we are doing are going to pay us bid dividends. We doubled our deductible this year, our insurance year started august 1st. We are going to take on more risk to save money.”

“Grant Parish School Board initially purchased the Infinit-I for Schools program for use in the transportation department. Then we quickly realized that the program could be utilized system wide. Infinit-I for Schools has made recordkeeping for state mandated training, for every employee, extremely easy. Our human resource department no longer has to keep up with thousands of completion certificates and who has not completed their training. Now we just print a report! That easy! As for the transportation department, Infinit-I for Schools offers numerous training modules for school bus drivers and attendants. Trying to get bus drivers and attendants together at each school every month for safety training is a thing of the past. With Infinit-I for Schools modules and testing, I know the drivers and attendants are getting the needed information. We also count those minutes/hours toward our annual certification time requirements. Grant Parish has just begun to use Infinit-I for Schools system wide. There are many ways that this program can be used to make training and verification so much easier, such as posting notices on the main page where everyone logs in, verification of receipt of documents, messages, etc. We are using Infinit-I for Schools to document receipt of handbooks, policy manuals and documents that are required to be given to each employee every year. We have transitioned into using Infinit-I for Schools fairly easily. The support and help from Infinit-I for Schools is unequal to any software support team I have dealt with previously. I highly recommend Infinit-I for Schools!”

“We needed a way to get continuous training materials out to our drivers that also documented their training had been completed. With Infinit-I, the drivers have the advantage of completing the training on their cell phones, iPads, home computers, or computers at the home terminal. Infinit-I is a very efficient means of training drivers when you don’t have the luxury of having all the drivers together for safety meetings. Infinit-I was the perfect solution for us, and it has been a huge time saver for me, as well as the drivers. The support is absolutely great! I love the proactive approach taken by the service representatives. I would suggest Infinit-I to anyone looking for a more efficient, thorough training system."

“I’ve learned so much. It puts things for any safety manager, safety personnel’s perspective, you have to look at the big picture and what you’re actually doing with the training.  Ultimately you’re reacting, but you have to know if the drivers are actually learning.  So being here, gives you so many more tools on how to implement those things, so you know the drivers are actually taking in.  Listening to other carriers talk about their experience, you get a really good sense of that.  That’s one of the biggest things I’m taking away. The learning experience, everything I’m taking back with me, obviously is going to be well worth the trip.  I’m taking so much more than I thought I was going to take back with me.”

“I really actually learned a lot.  It was a great forum to allow somebody to concentrate on what the program has to offer, as opposed to being distracted or influenced by your normal work activities. Well worth attending, even if you don’t end up getting the Infinit-i program, I still learned a lot from the program, and it is definitely worth your time.  It’s a short day and a half, and it’s well worth it.”

“The venue is great. You’re really able to step back and take the time to fully understand how you can use Infinit-I to fully understand what is going on at your company.  It has been well worth the time.”

“Our company has benefited greatly using Infinit-I’s online training modules. It makes what used to be a challenging task very simple and quick. Their support is always real-time and very pleasant. We’ll continue to use their service for years to come.”

“Vertical Alliance has proven to be an excellent, service-oriented, partner for the Lockton clients we mutually share. Their Infinit-I solution provides my clients with the ability to quickly and easily adopt technology into their safety and accident prevention program resulting in measurable efficiency and improved bottom-line results. In just a few words, they are very customer focused and can be counted on to provide what they promise.”

Make Your Job Easier “The customer service is outstanding. There isn’t any company that I’ve ever worked with, no matter what service they’re offering, that has customer service like Vertical Alliance. They make your job a whole lot easier. It’s really beneficial. It’s like having an extra safety person there.”

“That’s the great thing. Vertical Alliance keeps track of everything for you. When a guy goes in to take the module, it will show whether he reviewed it and took the test. You get a report once a week. The history is there from the time the guy started to work with you. It shows everything that he looked at.”

“We needed a way to keep our drivers up-to- date on recurrent training requirements under DOT and OSHA regulations. After evaluating a couple of options, we decided to try the Infinit-I solution. Now, instead of having to pull drivers off the road for routine safety talks, they can receive updates on both timely topics like CSA BASICS, FMCSA, and PHMSA and relevant topics like OSHA either from their home-based computers or from laptops with internet connectivity. Not only have the training programs been well received by our drivers, they have also helped increase productivity and equipment utilization, allowing the drivers to spend more time on the road and less time in the classroom. Nothing will ever replace face-to-face classroom training, but now we can concentrate those efforts on the more complex subjects.”

"My favorite thing [about Infinit-I] is that it’s easy to use. The platform is easy to learn, it’s easy to navigate, and it’s quick. For my fleet size, or any size, you want something that’s going to be effective and easy to handle. And I find the Infinit-I platform hits all those markers." "We’ve seen a decrease in accidents, a decrease in our CSA scores, and more effectiveness out of our fleet."hose markers."

“We have a customer that requires special training. We posted the training on Infinit-I and were their only company that completed the training. We have a hard time getting all our employees together for training due to conflicting schedules. Infinit-I allows all of our employees to do their training at their pace. We really like that we can add our own curriculum and customize the training to our needs.”

“Using Infinit-I has allowed me to provide quality safety training to all of our satellite locations and also to our main manufacturing plants. This system eliminated the practice of mailing training materials to these locations. It also ensured that every employee throughout the organization, regardless of location, is receiving the same training and is easily documented within the system. The feedback that I have gotten from employees has been very positive. I am looking forward to a long term relationship with Vertical Alliance Group. The customer support is outstanding and worked with me daily to answer questions when I was implementing the system.”

“I started using online training in 2005 with another company, and we switched over to Infinit-I in 2013. The reason we did that? The other company was charging us a set fee and we had an allotted amount of training we could do. With Infinit-I, I can do unlimited training. There are others out there that will charge you a set fee, but that set fee only includes x number of training. You go over that training allotment and you get charged extra. We were probably $800-$1200 a quarter going over our allotted amount.  We don’t have that problem anymore.”

“I have enjoyed using Infinit-I for Schools videos. The program is easy to use, time efficient, and the videos cover the whole gamut of what a bus driver needs to know. I also like the fact that as Infinit-I for Schools develops and adds videos to their menu, they are offered to be added to our site at no extra charge. It is hard to get very many drivers together at once to view other individual videos. With Infinit-I for Schools, each driver can watch independently at his/her own pace, or I can assign certain videos with a completion date. Finally, I have found Infinit-I for Schools to be very well worth the money. You can’t beat it!”

“I’ve used a lot of training material in my career, and I have found Infinit-I for Schools to be among the best. The ease of use for the drivers, and the detailed reports for me, make it the most cost and time saving way to train. You can even use it for safety meetings and in-service training. Plugin the laptop, go online, pick a subject, and you have training.  Infinit-I for Schools takes something as important as training and makes it easy, time saving, cost effective, and relevant for our needs. Their service and support are second to none. They are a great partner in transportation training.”

“Thank you for the great Infinit-I for Schools driver training program. Programs such as this have been long overdue and your continued advancement of new and innovative additions to the program are exciting and fresh.  In as much as it is our belief that nothing should replace face-to-face driver training, Infinit-I for Schools is an effective and valuable addition to our transportation staff training program. Having the ability to schedule training modules for an entire group, or to schedule a specific training module to individuals to improve their knowledge and understanding, is an invaluable tool. It is enhanced by the included feature of maintaining permanent records of all of the trainings completed in the Infinit-I for Schools program. Our staff appreciates the quality of the training modules as well as the ability to study independently in the comfort of individual personal settings. Lewistown Public Schools Transportation Department thanks you for your vision and your commitment to assist us in the training of our transportation staff – to help them be safe and effective school bus drivers.”