Lease­Plan’s CEO, Mike Pitcher, will be speak­ing at the Women in Fleet Man­age­ment (WIFM) event dur­ing the NAFA I&E with his cap­ti­vat­ing ses­sion, Me, Inc. Me, Inc. has a core objec­tive to get peo­ple think­ing about the pos­si­bil­i­ties and the oppor­tu­ni­ties each per­son has as a leader. It will touch on the influ­ence that each per­son can have on those around them and the changes peo­ple can make that will deliver imme­di­ate results. This moti­vat­ing ses­sion is a must see and will be a pos­i­tive experience.

NAFA atten­dees will also have a chance to attend ses­sions with other Lease­Plan experts like, Jon Toups, chief sales and mar­ket­ing offi­cer will share his exper­tise on dri­ver man­age­ment as part of the Exec­u­tive panel, Dan Shive, vice pres­i­dent of risk man­age­ment will be lead­ing the ses­sion, Coura­geous Lead­er­ship: Empow­er­ing You to Speak, that will have a focus on safety and Tony Blezien, vice pres­i­dent of oper­a­tions who will share his ideas on the future of fleet main­te­nance.

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The CEI Group, Inc. (CEI), a provider of acci­dent man­age­ment, dri­ver safety and risk man­age­ment for auto­mo­tive fleets, will pro­vide pre­views of its new online and mobile tech­nol­ogy for 2014 at the NAFA Fleet Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion Insti­tute & Expo this week at the Min­neapo­lis Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. CEI will be exhibit­ing in booth 1527

Among the new tech­nol­ogy solu­tions CEI will be unveil­ing are:

• Dri­ver­Care™ Mobile, a mobile appli­ca­tion for its dri­ver acci­dent report­ing system.
• Dri­ver­Care 5.0, a com­pletely new release of its sig­na­ture Dri­ver­Care Risk Man­ager ™ appli­ca­tion that is now fully inte­grated for fleet man­ager use with its Claim­sLink Express Lane™ acci­dent man­age­ment application.
• The abil­ity to link traf­fic safety cam­era vio­la­tions to the fleet dri­vers who incur them, incor­po­rate those vio­la­tions into dri­vers’ risk pro­files, and col­lect pay­ments for fines.

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Some users only rou­tinely check their solu­tion to view cur­rent loca­tions of their vehi­cles and don’t real­ize all the fea­tures that are included in what they are already pay­ing for now. Make sure you are fully uti­liz­ing your soft­ware because with advanced fleet track­ing soft­ware, like GPS Insight, you should have access to advanced reports, alerts, and map­ping – all along with the most cur­rent loca­tion infor­ma­tion.


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Min­i­miz­ing a fleet’s envi­ron­men­tal impact can seem daunt­ing and over­whelm­ing for even the most vet­eran fleet manager.

The fol­low­ing sim­ple green fleet strate­gies pro­vided by ARI, may not deliver dras­tic changes overnight, but by imple­ment­ing sev­eral of these ini­tia­tives in com­bi­na­tion, they will help a fleet real­ize incre­men­tal fuel sav­ings and reduce its car­bon footprint.

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Fuel econ­omy of new vehi­cles sold in the U.S. is now at its best mark ever, say researchers at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Trans­porta­tion Research Institute.

Aver­age fuel econ­omy (window-sticker val­ues) of cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs pur­chased in March was 25.4 mpg, up 0.3 mpg from a revised Feb­ru­ary fig­ure and 5.3 mpg from Octo­ber 2007, the first full month of mon­i­tor­ing, accord­ing to UMTRI researchers Michael Sivak and Bran­don Schoettle.

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MyKey is aid­ing fleet own­ers by sig­nal­ing when a cer­tain dri­ver has exceeded a pre-determined top speed. It also pre­vents fleet dri­vers from being dis­tracted by lim­it­ing the stereo system’s vol­ume, while Active City Stop and Trac­tion Con­trol are pre­vented from being disabled.

“MyKey has been a great tool for fleet man­agers, giv­ing them a tech­nol­ogy that encour­ages good dri­ving habits for their employ­ees,” said Megan Gillam, com­mer­cial vehi­cles brand and fleet com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ager for Ford Motor Company.

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ARI® will be on hand at this week’s NAFA Insti­tute & Expo to demon­strate the company’s state-of-the-art tech­nol­ogy and inno­v­a­tive fleet man­age­ment solutions.

ARI’s award-winning infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy team will be avail­able in Booth #1301 to dis­cuss how ARI’s sys­tems can help bring trans­parency to a fleet’s oper­a­tions while pro­vid­ing fleet man­agers with the infor­ma­tion they need to make bet­ter, faster deci­sions that drive effi­ciency and lower costs. Mem­bers of ARI’s client rela­tions team will be there as well to talk with atten­dees and answer ques­tions about the company’s fleet man­age­ment services.

In addi­tion, three ARI fleet experts — Chris Fos­ter, Den­nis Saric and Bob White — will par­tic­i­pate in NAFA Insti­tute sessions.

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PARS is cel­e­brat­ing 15 suc­cess­ful years in the vehi­cle loca­tion busi­ness this year, and they’re very proud to help their (very sat­is­fied) cus­tomers through each and every step of that process. Between Bill of Lad­ing and Deliv­ery of the vehi­cle, PARS pro­vides tons of ser­vices in between – includ­ing DMV Inspec­tions, Stor­age, Repairs, and Recon­di­tion­ing – just to name a few.

“PARS has really evolved and grown around its cus­tomers, cre­at­ing highly dynamic part­ner­ships. Our clients’ cus­tomers are demand­ing, which means we have tai­lored our ser­vices to meet their demands – essen­tially becom­ing an exten­sion of those orga­ni­za­tions,” said John Ross, Inter­nal Cus­tomer Sup­port Man­ager, PARS.


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Focus on fuel process, not just fuel rebates, says FleetVision

Although fuel prices con­tinue to rise across Europe, best prac­tice fuel man­age­ment is less about nego­ti­at­ing the best rebates and more about man­ag­ing and mon­i­tor­ing fuel expen­di­ture more effi­ciently to drive down costs.

So says Tobias Kern, senior con­sul­tant at Brussels-based global fleet con­sul­tancy, FleetVi­sion, who has recently com­pleted a pan Euro­pean fuel ten­der process on behalf of a global PR and mar­ket­ing agency which oper­ates around 3,000 vehi­cles in 11 coun­tries across Europe.

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