NAFA Fleet Management Association, the vehicle fleet industry’s largest trade association, announces a partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on a new road safety initiative.
The Our Roads, Our Safety program has been developed by FMCSA to help raise public awareness – with both professional drivers and consumers – about sharing the road with large trucks and buses. FMCSA’s campaign goal is to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving these vehicles.
The initiative joins NAFA with the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the American Bus Association, AAA, and the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association as official partners of the FMCSA’s Our Roads, Our Safety program.
The technology allows drivers to request and receive fleet data with voice commands
The fleet industry’s first voice-based technology, still in development by ARI will be unveiled at its Best in Fleet conference in Miami Beach, Fla., Nov. 8-10.
The annual event celebrating technological innovation and disruption in the fleet management industry brings together more than 150 of ARI’s largest clients who have shown an eagerness to integrate the latest technology into how they manage their company vehicles.
by Ted Roberts
I was fortunate enough to attend the Wheels Results+ Fleet Summit in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, which was fantastic from both a learning and a networking perspective. Held at the lovely Gleacher Center (part of the University of Chicago) just off the Magnificent Mile, and structured as an open forum, this event highlighted notable recent successes in Wheels’ five Results+ optimal fleet categories:
READ MORE to see the winners and to learn more about the Results+ Fleet Summit.
By Mike Cieri
Benchmarking is a way of determining what is the best performance being achieved – whether in a particular organization, a competitor, industry or by an entirely different industry.
This information can then be used to identify gaps in an organization’s processes in order to achieve a competitive advantage.
There is no single way to perform benchmarking although there are 6 steps that are considered best practice.
Public transportation is absolutely necessary for moving people around quickly, preventing traffic congestion and accidents, limiting pollution, and freeing land for uses more valuable than parking space and roadways.
The partnerships between cities and new mobility services point to potential benefits both for cities and their residents.
"Shared-mobility services account for more than half of all new mobility start-ups around the world, and homegrown providers have cropped up in every region. E-hailed motorcycle-taxi services have proved popular in Africa, for example, while India’s city dwellers have embraced on-demand shuttle services. Product-innovation companies, which are concentrated in North America, mostly focus on developing self-driving vehicles and electric vehicles."