Our Fleet Management Weekly team enthusiastically congratulates Jeff Schlesinger on being named CEO of LeasePlan USA. Jeff is a brilliant guy with a wealth of experience and the confident optimism we so admired in his predecessor Mike Pitcher, who retired at the end of 2016. We will miss Jeff’s monthly ‘Guidance for the Multinational Fleet’ columns he has contributed to us, but we will continue to interview him every chance we get.
NAFA International Fleet Academy precedes the annual Institute & Expo and has been expertly evolving each year since its inception. In her video clip, Kate Vigneau, CAFM, tells us more about the upcoming IFA and how it’s shaping up to be yet another outstanding event. IFA is Monday, April 24th, and I&E, the world’s largest gathering of fleet professionals, follows April 25-28th – all in beautiful Tampa, Florida.
The Work Truck Show – March 14-17 – is a must-attend conference for fleet professionals who deal with work trucks. Register by Friday, February 17th, to receive discounted pricing!
Meet us at all of these exciting conferences, including the International Fleet Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, March 8th!
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
eDriving was honored on December 13, 2016 with UK's prestigious Prince Michael International Safety Award.
The award was a tribute to the work of the late Dr. Will Murray, e-Driving Research Director, who passed away, suddenly, just weeks before the award ceremony.
At the presentation for the award category, Safer Road Users, 2016, it was said, "Sustaining road safety, through innovative risk-led processes, has been at the heart of eDriving approach for 20 years."
Germany Fish distributor Deutsche See is suing Volkswagen for misrepresenting a fleet of vehicles it leased as environmentally friendly, becoming the first major German customer to sue Europe's biggest carmaker over its diesel-test cheating.
Volkswagen already faces numerous lawsuits from individual owners, regulators, states and dealers, many of them in the form of class-action cases in the United States. This is the first case brought by a corporate customer in its home market.
Bremerhaven-based Deutsche See, which leases about 500 vehicles from Volkswagen, said it had been unable to reach an out-of-court settlement.
Self-driving car prototypes appear to be getting better at negotiating California streets and highways without a human backup needing to intervene, according to data made public Wednesday by California transportation regulators.
The data reflect safety-related incidents reported by 11 companies that have been testing more than 100 vehicles on public roads, primarily in the Silicon Valley neighborhoods where the technology has grown up.
The reports were made to California's Department of Motor Vehicles, which posted them online.
Douglas Weichman, CAFM, has been named the new fleet management director for the city of Gainesville, Florida.
Previously, Weichman was director of the Palm Beach County, Florida Fleet Management Division.
Weichman served as NAFA’s President from 2011 to 2013 and as Immediate Past President from 2013 to the present. He is the 2013 recipient of NAFA’s Fleet Excellence Award (FLEXY) – Member of the Year.