Some very different, very distinct fleet practices are being put into place in Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe -- and in the U.S. vs. the rest of the Americas. Hear more from Janis Christensen, a highly trusted industry expert.
There's a lot of focus on keeping vehicles operational and drivers productive, which is all well and good. But driving is a dangerous job -- and there should be a lot more emphasis on protecting fleet drivers.
As PARS moves fleet vehicles from place to place (or place to storage), they stay in constant communication with the fleet manager who's hiring them -- reporting and documenting vehicle damages, cleanliness, and much, much more.
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By Mike Sheldrick, Senior Editor
"You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
BuzzFeed recently ran a cute item: “12 Car Advances That Would’ve Freaked Out People in the Eighties.”That might be an exaggeration. But astounded and amazed would not.
I remember showing Dave Cole, head of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Michigan, an Etak navigation system in late ’80s. It included map data and restaurants for Detroit and Ann Arbor. This was pre-GPS, by the way. “That’s amazing,” he said, as we found a restaurant (by cuisine) and quickly calculated a route. As a hard-nosed engineer and the son of Ed Cole, a former GM president, he was a man not easily impressed. Full disclosure: a Silicon Graphics workstation was in the trunk. It was early days for navigation. So early that the neologism, telematics, had not even been invented.
Now that telematics has switched into overdrive, it’s not so hard to imagine that many of us will be freaked out in just a few years. In other words, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”