Blogs

Market Trends

Our long-time editor and fleet expert, Mike Antich, offers opinions and ideas on the Fleet Market Trends. Mike’s highly-read Blog, focuses on the overall fleet industry and draws interesting comments from fleet managers and other industry professionals from across the country. Mike was inducted in the Fleet Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Coach’s Blog

With more than 50 years in the fleet industry, Ed Bobit, Automotive Fleet editor and publisher, reflects on issues affecting today’s fleets. Drawing insight from his own experiences in the field, Ed offers a perspective similar to that of a sports coach guiding his players.

Read through some classic messages from Ed Bobit
from our archives, going back to our first issue in 1961.

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Anonymous Public Fleet Manager
by Anonymous
Controversial, insightful commentary from an anonymous public fleet manager..Read my Fleetblog
Wayne's World Blog
by Wayne G. Smolda
Wayne G. Smolda, Chief Executive Officer of The CEI Group, Inc., founded the company in 1983. A 1969 graduate of La Salle University with a degree in business administration, he was employed as a financial...Read my Fleetblog
Moving Your Fleet
by John Ross
John Ross began working at PARS in 2011 as the Internal Customer Support Manager and supports the IT projects at PARS...Read my Fleetblog
Talking TCO
by Melanie Murphy
Appointed in 2012, Melanie is responsible for overseeing ARI’s team of business analysts that work to identify opportunities and counsel clients on strategies...Read my Fleetblog
Fuel For Thought
by Joe Thompson
Raised in southern and central Ohio and educated at Ohio University, Joe started his automotive career at Campbell & Company, a Dearborn-based automotive marketing firm...Read my Fleetblog
Decision Points
by Michael Bragg
Michael is President of Compendium Software Systems, LLC and the creator of award-winning driver improvement programs like BrightFleet.com and FuelClinic.com. He has been studying driver behavior...Read my Fleetblog
Fleet Smarts
by Mike Wade
Mike Wade brings his extensive global marketing and business development acumen to the fleet industry to provide useful insights and share best practices.....Read my Fleetblog
Small Fleets, Big Challenges
by Gary Lykins
Gary Lykins serves as the fleet manager, shop supervisor, and lead mechanic for the Town of Jonesborough, Tennessee...Read my Fleetblog
Fleeting Thoughts
by Mike Scarbrough
Mike Scarbrough is the Chief Executive Officer of NexTraq. Mr. Scarbrough’s leadership sets the strategic direction and vision of the company...Read my Fleetblog
Shoes for Your Fleet
by Larry Shead
Stay on top of the newest tire technologies and understand how they may (or may not) benefit your fleet in the real world...Read my Fleetblog
The Connected Fleet
by Karen White
The Connected Fleet blog brings information of value to the fleet operator, covering topics related to driver performance and safety management, best practices and change management advice from real-world fleets, and interesting insights...Read my Fleetblog
Voice of the Vehicle
by Eric Mallia
This blog is meant for fleet professionals who are interested in vehicle usage information and to know what they could do with it to optimize vehicle selection, deployment and utilization...Read my Fleetblog
Competitive Fleet Management
by Steve Kibler
The objective of this blog is to provoke out-of-the-box ideas. To create a venue for innovative thinking and sharing for solutions to the common – and – the not so common issues we face every day managing a fleet...Read my Fleetblog
Ecological Fleets
by Darren Phillips
EcoLogical Fleets discusses several ways on how to run your fleet more efficiently and reduce your fleet's impact on the environment...Read my Fleetblog
Business Drivers
by Matt Gunzenhaeuser
Business Drivers is all about the strategies and technologies that deliver the highest levels of value and ROI from the fleet, and help drive your business forward....Read my Fleetblog