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Procurement initiatives to reduce fleet cost structure primarily focus on hard costs with secondary consideration given to soft cost reduction. Some procurement teams often don’t appreciate the sizable impact of soft cost reductions and how they can lead to larger hard cost reductions.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. runs three Kenworth Class 6–7 cabovers as mobile production units to disseminate news on the fly.
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For bosses who think you can get by with fewer trucks, there are steps you can take to gain their buy-in and help them see the true costs of running your fleet.
Read More →A fleet cost reduction program goes straight to the corporate bottom line. If a company operates at a 10% annual net profit margin, reducing annual fleet expenses by $100,000 is the equivalent of generating $1 million in sales. Although fleet managers manage hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars in corporate assets, only half are incentivized to achieve targeted performance goals. I advocate incentivization should be a universal best practice extended to all fleet managers.
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Johnny Wong was named fleet coordinator for the Recreation and Park Department for the City and County of San Francisco.
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Spec’ing a medium-duty truck is a complicated process that requires hundreds of decisions and choices, with each potentially impacting another. It is a science to achieve the balance between over-spec’ing and under-spec’ing a truck.
Read More →Observing technological impacts of other industries may provide insights into how looming changes could redefine fleets. The magnitude of the disruption will be greater than what fleets have faced before.
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Dave Hansen, who previously served as general manager of GM Fleet & Commercial Operations for General Motors before his retirement, was inducted into the Fleet Hall of Fame at the 2017 AFLA Conference.
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Steve Bloom, who was previously the president of Enterprise Fleet Management before his retirement, was inducted into the Fleet Hall of Fame at the 2017 AFLA Conference.
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Element Fleet Management's Xcelerate platform allows customers access to fleet location, usage and vehicle diagnostic insights from properly equipped General Motors Fleet vehicles.
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