Fleet Logistics Launches Global Mobility Solutions
Business will be dedicated to transparency, cost effectiveness and sustainability
Fleet Logistics Release, September 15, 2020
Fleet Logistics Group, Europe's largest independent fleet management company, has created a new Global Mobility Solutions unit that will engage with fleet customers on the issues of cost effectiveness, sustainability and electrification, and corporate mobility alternatives.
The new business brings together the expertise of the existing consultancy division in terms of market intelligence and methodologies, with the data management and analytical skills of the international reporting team.
It is led by Thibault Alleyn as the new Head of Global Mobility Solutions, who said: “Our Global Mobility Solutions unit combines the best of advisory and reporting experts in Fleet Logistics Group and will accelerate our focus on today’s and tomorrow’s hot topics in the fleet and mobility world.”
NETS Virtual Strength IN Numbers®Fleet Safety Benchmark Conference
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Conference participants include NETS member companies from diverse industries, representing a collective global fleet of more than half-a-million vehicles, ~80% passenger vehicles, that travel nearly 11 billion miles annually.
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Donlen President Tom Callahan Elected Into Fleet Hall of Fame
Bannockburn, Ill., Sept. 15, 2020 – Donlen, a fleet management leader that develops innovative fleet technology solutions and offers a proactive, hands-on approach to customer service, is proud to announce the election of president Tom Callahan into the Fleet Hall of Fame.
Presented by Automotive Fleet, the Automotive Fleet and Leasing Administration’s Fleet Hall of Fame “recognizes fleet industry leaders and pioneers who have contributed significantly to the commercial fleet management profession.” To be considered for the Fleet Hall of Fame, inductees need to have at least a decade of experience in fleet management. The Fleet Hall of Fame was established in 2008 and has inducted 85 men and women since its inception.
“Thank you to everyone who played a role in helping me achieve this honor - Donlen employees, customers, mentors, colleagues, friends, family – you are the best,” said Callahan. “There are many deserving folks in this industry, and I am humbled by this recognition.”
Study: No ‘Material’ Loss of Performance with Most Alternative Fuels
September 2020
Adoption is growing in “record numbers”
By Mark Boada, Executive Editor
A study by a clean energy consulting firm has found that there is no significant loss of performance when surveyed commercial fleets convert from diesel and gasoline to most alternative sources of energy.
The 141-page report, published last month by the California consulting firm of Gladstone, Neandross & Associates, also asserts that the use of alternative fuels by fleets of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles is “at a critical inflection point where…adoption is expanding from the gradual uptake in niche applications over the past several decades to faster and broader adoption within the last few years.
The report, entitled “The State of Sustainable Fleets 2020,” says that although diesel and gasoline are likely to remain as the dominant choice of commercial fleets for some time, “fleets are now testing and purchasing sustainable vehicle technologies in record numbers.”
Wildfires And Weather Extremes: It’s Not Coincidence, It’s Climate Change
While extreme weather is a part of the natural cycle, the recent uptick in the ferocity and frequency of these extremes, scientists say, is evidence of an acceleration of climate impacts, some of which were underestimated by climate computer models.
But many scientists believe that there is more at play contributing to this extreme weather than simply the direct effects of warming and drying. One of those mechanisms is the indirect impacts of global warming on the most influential weather-maker on day-to-day conditions: the jet stream.
"While the extent of the ongoing fire siege is beyond what most have seen in the West, the alignment of ingredients for such fire seasons is becoming more favorable as a result of climate change and land-use practices," Dr. John Abatzoglou, climate professor at the University of California Merced said. "We should expect, adapt, and prepare for similar years moving forward."
Read the article at CBS News.
