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Spurred by 57 percent growth over the last seven years, Wheels, Inc. celebrated its forty-fifth year as a pioneer automotive fleet-leasing firm by welcoming customers, suppliers, employees, and dignitaries to its new headquarters in DBS Plaines, IL.
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Had someone told me, when I graduated from new York University in '49 as a pre-med student, that I would spend 35 years in both the retail automobile business and the leasing business, I would have told him he was crazy.
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Launched last December, the seminars are a way for Donlen, which is based in Skokie, IL, to inform fleet mangers about new developments in the field. "You can read or hear about these developments, but that doesn't have the same impact as actually seeing them for yourself," says Paul Hilder.
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There's a new approach that excites me; the so-called Japanese connection. A connection unique to Chevrolet. Here, we've got two objectives; one short-term and one long-term. First, we need those lower-priced cars today! and, secondly, we need to learn how to build them in the U.S. so we can compete in that lower-priced arena.
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At one time, the mobile telephone was thought of as little more than a plaything. Making calls from a mobile telephone was expensive; air space, range, and frequency availability were limited; and the quality of transmission was poor at best. But the same technology that changed the hand-held calculator from an expensive toy to an inexpensive every-day tool many have the same effect on the mobile telephone.
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As time becomes an increasingly precious commodity, executives must use every tool available to use that time wisely and efficiently. Catching up on paperwork and making telephone calls from the back seats of limousines is becoming more common.
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Fleet management is a job differing today from a decade ago as the word processor differs from the steno pad.
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Successfully managing the small fleet requires that the fleet manger devise solutions to highly individual situations rather than responding with pat answers.
Read More →Automotive Rental, Incorporated's Fleet Insurance Management Program was created as a response to the needs of one of their clients who wanted assistance in handling the volume of insurance-related calls from his drivers and in scheduling repair work on vehicles involved in accidents.
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But while its outer trappings convey the power of an indestructible institution, the police car itself is simply another fleet vehicle - one, in fact, that probably takes more abuse than any other. Used in endless stop-and-go driving, it must perform at a moment's notice in high-speed pursuit, can be rammed by other cars or shot at while officers crouch behind it.
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