Sean Lyden was a contributing author for Bobit publications for many years.
To determine whether an extended warranty is right for your fleet, review vehicle usage, lifecycles, and replacement policies.
Rightsizing is more than simply utilizing smaller displacement engines or vehicle downsizing. It involves ensuring the optimal number of properly spec’ed vehicles are available for fleets to fulfill their mission.
Representatives from several organizations that have made the switch to propane autogas share their real-world perspectives on the alternative fuel.
Fleet managers need a clearly written policy that is uniformly enforced and supported by senior management to cut incidents of distracted driving by employee drivers.
Sticker shock, lack of infrastructure, time to convert, and maintenance issues may make fleets “gun shy” when considering an alternative fuel. Biodiesel allows fleets to jump on the green-fuel bandwagon with little expense and fewer headaches than other alternative fuels.
With the potential to save lives and reduce accident management costs, a carefully crafted safety policy is a necessity.
Several experts offer insight to help fleets prepare for the regulations impacting medium- and heavy-duty trucks beginning in 2014.
Driving on company business is one of the most visible activities a company employee can take part in. Fleet executives must take steps to reduce the risk and frequency of company-vehicle incidents.
A fleet mainstay for more than several decades, compact pickups appear to be going the way of the dodo thanks, in part, to less expensive and more efficient full-size pickups and utility vehicles.
When the recession hit in 2008, instead of increasing the lifecycle of its medium- and heavy-duty trucks, Joy Global began shortcycling.
Defined by two key measurements, yield strength and percent elongation, steel is being evaluated by a growing number of fleet managers.
Fleet managers can use mobile applications available on smartphones and tablets to stay productive even when they’re on the go.
A cost-effective alternative to conventionally powered vehicles, natural gas is utilized in several different fleet segments and is producing strong results.
After decades of few models and even fewer options, the cargo van market is beginning to capture the attention and fill the needs of fleet managers.
A decade ago, a manual transmission always beat out an automatic, primarily because it was more efficient — but, times are changing.
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