Over the decades, procurement has become more and more involved in sourcing fleet assets. Initially, procurement started with lower-hanging fruit, primarily company cars, but now it’s going further up the asset chain in sourcing more complex vocational fleet vehicles.
Automotive Fleet readers weigh in on a number of pressing fleet topics, such as discrimination against vocational fleet drivers by homeowner associations (HOA), the inflexibility of management and its resistance to change, diesel-powered trucks aren't going away, and the need for fleets to look for new opportunities.
Make careful calculations. What appears to be the right size, may not be fully compatible with a typical workday, routine, or function.
Multinational corporations are changing the way they source and manage their vocational fleets to better identify true costs and to leverage opportunities to reduce spend and to maximize the operating efficiency of these specialized vehicles.
Many fleet vehicles have been idled or parked in storage areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. One consequence has been an uptick in part thefts from these parked vocational vehicles.
One place fleet managers are looking for help in reducing incident rates: advanced technology. But safety policies should not be ignored.
Auto Truck Group has hired Moza Fay as a vocational fleet sales manager, the upfitter has announced.
Extending truck replacement cycling parameters beyond stated fleet policy is typically a short-term tactic used by senior management to solve a budgetary constraint; however, there are long-term fleet consequences to this strategy.
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