Wrench Acquires Lemon Squad to Expand Full-Service Automotive Offerings
Wrench, the mobile vehicle maintenance and repair solution that brings dealer-quality service directly to consumers and fleet managers across the U.S., recently announced it has agreed to acquire Lemon Squad, the premier automotive inspection company with the largest network of ASE-certified inspectors in the U.S.
Andy Dabbs, president and CEO of Lemon Squad, will join Wrench as general manager of inspections, and the company’s network of 2,800 expert inspectors will become part of Wrench’s extended team. As a result of the acquisition, Wrench now serves consumers and fleet operators across the vehicle ownership experience – from pre-purchase to repair – nationwide.
Bryan Flansburg, CAFM, Receives NAFA’s Distinguished Service Award
NAFA Fleet Management Association (NAFA) announces the presentation of its Distinguished Service Award for 2020 to Immediate Past President Bryan Flansburg, CAFM. Flansburg is Location Manager for First Student in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
“(Bryan) has been involved with nearly every facet of NAFA, on every level, for 25 years now," said NAFA's president Patti Earley, CAFM. "He has chaired many of NAFA’s committees, took the lead on converting our education to an online system, and was instrumental in this Association’s recognition that mobility was going to radically change the working lives of everyone in our industry."
Let’s Connect At AFLA NextGen!
What does connection look like to you right now? For us, video calls are the new phone calls, and slippers are the new stilettos or #noshaveNovember is now #quarantinebeard. Wherever you are in this virtual world, find your AFLA friends at the AFLA NextGen 2020 Virtual Fleet Conference.
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NETS Virtual Strength IN Numbers®Fleet Safety Benchmark Conference
Mark your calendar! Join your peers at the only conference focused-exclusively on employer road safety. October 13-15, 2020
NETS annual STRENGTH IN NUMBERS® Benchmark Conference convenes each year to bring together Global, Corporate, Government, and Non-profit employers.
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.
General Conference registration: $349
Government/ Non-profit Organizations: $199
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.”
