Topics discussed included addressing product availability challenges; how to maximize vehicle uptime and efficiency; and how work-from-home company practices will impact fleet business activity.
Scott Yeomans discusses how his fleet has used technology to operate more resourcefully.
With electricity rate fluctuations of up to 200% daily, its essential for fleets to view their local utilities as partners and engage them before placing an order for the first electric vehicles.
Flying Star Transport integrated its dispatch, in-truck technology and accounting system, while meeting the new ELD mandate and addressing demand for more real-time data. As a result, the petroleum-hauling fleet has seen real gains in efficiency.
In Josh Switkes’ view, it's way too premature to write truck platooning off as a dead end technology. And HDT Senior Editor Jack Roberts agrees with that point.
They say necessity is the mother of invention. These inventions by fleet employees and customers were made to solve a specific need.
In the past two years, the Florida county’s fleet team has improved its preventive maintenance and safety programs and is now looking toward fuel updates and a fleet software revamp.
No matter how knowledgeable a fleet manager is, misperceptions about how to treat customers, when to take risks, and the consequences of changing or not changing operational processes can hold the fleet and its manager back.
Nominations are open until Friday, Aug. 12, for the all-new Fleet Technology Expo awards. which will recognize fleets for their sustainability and efficiency practices.
Fourteen fleets achieved fuel savings of $477 million in 2014 by adopting a variety of fuel efficiency technologies according to an annual study from the NACFE.
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