While most people spend their days in office, warehouses, retail stores, or working from home, a fleet driver's office is their car and their workplace is the road. Unlike a nice safe office that is the same day to day, the road isn't the same from minute to minute or even second to second.
Topics: Fleet Safety, Fleet Management
Strip it down to the bare essentials and you see how fleet management's chief goal comes down to getting the most from each of your resources. You want to keep the fleet moving, on budget and on deadline. All of this turns a healthy profit for your organization, and it keeps the higher-ups happy.
Topics: Fleet Management
Because the business world can be so tough, fleet operations will often face much pressure to lower their costs, and one of the most popular solutions of this has been to outsource the non-core business functions to fleet management companies. This includes fleet maintenance. It looks attractive to companies because you lower your costs and usher in long-term savings.
Topics: Fleet Management
Autonomous vehicles aren't a possibility but a soon-to-be reality. Big tech companies like Google and vehicle manufacturers have started to test, refine and plan for the future release of driverless vehicles. We could see these vehicles hit the road as soon as 2021, and industries around the world have braced themselves for its potential impact. Even vehicle fleets could soon change because of autonomous vehicle technology.
Topics: Fleet Management
As a company, you're always looking for ways that you can achieve improvements in the driver performance of your fleet. We're here to help you maximize your benefits and succeed. Many times positive reinforcement goes a longer distance than punishments. In fact, we always encourage fleet management to use positive reinforcement to get better results in general. It can help you to improve a lot.
Topics: Fleet Management
For the owner of a fleet of vehicles, taking care of each one isn't a matter of choice. Getting the best performance and efficiency from the fleet means keeping them in the best possible shape at all times. Saving mileage by keeping your filters doing there job is something very few folks realize they can do.
Topics: Fleet Management
Plenty of strategies out there lower the cost of your fleet, but we're going to discuss asset management strategies to help you optimize your fleet. Through effective asset management, you can meet goals and reduce spending, meet customer demands and increase your efficiency.
Topics: Fleet Management
Many companies see hiring a fleet management company (FMC) as a cop-out to managing their fleet themselves. They see it as a way to "brush off" their business responsibilities onto another company. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
Topics: Fleet Management
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