Wholesale used vehicle prices (on a mix-, mileage-, and seasonally adjusted basis) increased 0.75% month-over-month in July.
This brought the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index to 130.3, which was a record high for the third consecutive month and a 2.6% increase from a year ago.
On a year-over-year basis, the mid-sized car category saw the largest decline (down 0.9%) in July, while pickups and vans saw gains greater than the overall market. Other car segments like compacts and luxury saw gains in July too.
Driving under the influence of alcohol is by far the most common drug-related arrest in the United States. Police make more than 1.4 million drunken-driving arrests annually, and they catch only a fraction of offenders.
The criminal justice system often responds to drunk drivers by focusing on their driving, for example, by taking away driver's licenses, restricting driving to daylight hours, or installing a breathalyzer that locks the ignition if the would-be driver has been drinking. But new research indicates that a highly effective approach to alcohol-involved crime is more direct and simple: Take away the offender's access to alcohol.
October 11-12, 2017, Omni Hotel, Charlottesville, VA
A hallmark of past NETS conferences has been the sharing of best practices across industry sectors enabling participants to benefit from a wide variety of road safety perspectives and successful implementation strategies.
This year’s event will include a number of leadership-themed presentations which are sure to resonate with attendees. Leadership partners who support road safety programs of all sizes and maturity levels are also encouraged to attend the conference in order to benefit from these presentations.
Learn more about the conference agenda and speakers.
As automakers like Tesla, Toyota, and Volvo focus on developing vehicles that can interact autonomously with their environments, Ari Teman is exploring ways the cars of the future could interact with you.
The inventor, designer, and technologist told Futurism he sees biometrics, which is “the ability for a vehicle, an environment, or a service to recognize who you are and how you are,” as one of the biggest developments in transportation in recent years.
By Ed Pierce, Fleet Industry Marketer
Throughout this “marketing scam” series of columns, I focused on generally-accepted marketing tactics that waste the limited dollars of the marketing budget and that deliver few sales opportunities.
This final segment is devoted to two final activities that offer questionable value: Fish in a Barrel, where "exclusive" executive events are offered for a limited number of sales representatives to attend, and Question That Award Sponsorship (or Entry), where dubious award companies bestow "awards" for a steep price.