
In his opening keynote address at the 2015 Fleet Safety Conference, Shell Global Road Safety Manager Mike Watson describes the controls and leadership necessary to foster a successful corporate safety culture.
Read More →Telematics vendor Spireon Inc.'s chief information officer, Sam Balooch, will receive the 2015 Excellence in Executive Leadership award from the Center for Leadership at California State University Fullerton in the category of Cultural Change, the company announced.
Read More →Some fleet managers lament they used to be in "control," but now "share" responsibility, requiring approvals or buy-in from every affected department. Fleet managers must learn to be diplomats, because interdepartmental conflict can have a corrosive effect on how departments work with fleet operations.
Read More →A common refrain from those who are trying to market products and services to the fleet industry is that fleet managers never answer their phones.
Read More →Big Data is the hottest new catchphrase with the tech and fleet crows. Our recent surveys indicate that most fleet managers love data and want more of it, but are unhappy with the data they are actually getting.
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Natural Gas Vehicles for America named Matthew Godlewski as the group’s next president. He will succeed Rich Kolodziej who has served for 18 years as the advocacy group’s president.
Read More →In late February, virtually every member of the NAFA office staff received a new or additional assignment and a new title to go with it. All to meet the goals of their "very aggressive strategic plans" (no specifics identified).
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We reached out to a number of industry veterans to give readers some lessons that others have learned, either through successes or failures, and how these experiences have changed the way they perform their job.
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It is a refrain that has been a fleet manager's burden for decades, and all too often not without reason: "Management doesn't appreciate or understand what I do." Here are 10 ways to help create understanding.
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Managing change is a hot topic in business today. With what seems to be an endless string of acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, companies change nearly every day, including executive leadership. Fleet managers face these challenges as often, and as much, as any department level function.
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