Recently-launched Azuga Fleet Mobile is the first-of-its-kind gamification and driver rewards program. This new interactive application, available on iOS and Android, gives drivers the ability to track driver scores and compete to earn rewards from top brands such as Amazon, Walmart and Burger King. The solution is designed to create a transparent and real-time application for the driver and their fleet manager -- wherein the driver will be able to track performance throughout the day and the fleet manager will then have capability to give rewards for improved driving behaviors, which ultimately will increase safety, decrease costs and increase driver retention.
If your drivers take home company vehicles, do you monitor their personal use during non-working hours? If not, it could be costing your business serious money. Utilizing a GPS tracking solution, like GPS Insight, to track how drivers are using company vehicles when they are not on the clock will prevent increased operational costs, fuel consumption, and other expenses for your fleet.
The self-driving car seems like a terrible driver’s dream: no steering wheel to control, no trouble parallel parking, no concerns about having a couple of beers on the way home from work. But the removal of fallible human drivers might create havoc for auto insurers.
Human error accounts for 90 percent of road accidents, according to the International Organization for Road Accident Prevention, and our collective failure rate helps the auto insurance industry rake in a cool $157 billion in premiums each year. So if self-driving cars eliminate all those driver mistakes, the business of insuring vehicles will necessarily change as well.
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Anheuser-Busch’s goal is to reduce emissions and fuel costs, while doing something green(ish) and has announced that it is going to replace all 66 of the heavy duty trucks at its Houston brewery, with 66 new trucks, that instead run on compressed natural gas.
The trucks in its existing fleet are not old or falling apart - they are tough, reliable diesel-powered workhorses that pull 53-foot trailers loaded with 50,000 pounds of beer. Each truck rolls virtually around the clock — putting in an average of 140,000 miles in a single year hauling beer to wholesalers. They move seventeen million barrels of beer each year.
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As more and more automakers are slowly revealing their autonomous driving technologies and vehicle-to-vehicle communication capabilities, the question of privacy and just how much personal data motorists will have to give up is becoming a concern.
Though the cars and highways of the future will likely make our day-to-day commutes more convenient, the big question is at what cost?