Changing the Face of Fleet
We have a nice partnership with UK-based International fleetworld with whom we often trade relevant content. This week, we publish their superb article: MaaS Appeal: How Mobility as a Service is Changing the Face of Fleet. Author Curtis Hutchinson queried key fleet providers in North America and Europe for their views on how MaaS will evolve in the coming years. Hutchinson says, "The rate of change blowing through the global fleet sector is unprecedented."
Closer to home, FMW executive editor Mark Boada is a connoisseur of webinars and was quite intrigued by a recent NAFA webinar: Driver Policies, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, presented by Donlen Corporation's John Wuich and Elizabeth Wills, and Sonya Girard, fleet manager for IDEXX Laboratories. Read Boada’s article Up-to-Date Fleet Policies Are the Key to Saving Big Money – the title says it all!
Finally, speaking of saving big money, we are delighted to publish SuperVision's Continuous License Monitoring, Myth vs. Fact, Part Two. In case you missed, it here is Myth vs. Fact, Part One.
Drive Safety!
‘Transforming from Fleet to Mobility’ Keynote at the International Fleet Meeting, Geneva
There is still time to register for the 7th International Fleet Meeting Geneva, where the organizers fleetcompentence Group and aboutFLEET offer the international fleet industry a unique GET TOGETHER platform on March 4, 2020, the second media day at the magnificent Geneva International Motor Show.
The aim of the GET TOGETHER International Fleet Meeting Geneva is to provide an exceptional networking platform for international fleet operators and the automotive, fleet management and leasing industries. Keynote speaker Pim De Weerd, Global Commodity Manager Mobility, Phillips, will address Transformation from Fleet to Mobility.
Fleet Management Weekly is proud to be a media partner of the International Fleet Meeting.
The Use of Telematics Data in Motor Vehicle Accident Litigation
NAFA Webinar -- Sponsored by Tucker Ellis LLP
Wednesday, March 11th @12:00-1:00 EST -- Register Here
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the different phases/components of a personal injury lawsuit arising from a motor vehicle accident, and the situations in which telematics data become relevant in a motor vehicle accident lawsuit.
- Explain how telematics data can both help and hurt a commercial vehicle fleet in a lawsuit.
- Provide fleet professionals with ideas on how to develop and monitor their telematics programs to improve safety and minimize the risk of telematics data being used against them in a lawsuit.
Politicians Plan to Outlaw The Engine, but Forecasters Say Nothing Much Changes
A big gap is opening up between what politicians say, urged on by high-profile environmentalists like Greta Thunberg, and what is happening in the real world.
The key point surely is that politicians making unrealistic claims for short-term gain will probably be retired when their plans implode, and the rioting starts. Forecasters have to stick around and live with their predictions.
Professor Gautam Kalghatgi, visiting professor for Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, and Engineering Science at Oxford University says the politicians and environmentalists declared aims are not possible. “Such a massive increase in BEVs will have unsustainable environmental and economic impacts. Eliminating CO2 would mean the end of aviation, steel and cement and there’d be no gas for central heating. There would be public riots."
Read the article at Forbes.
The Electric Pickup Wars Are About to Begin
Known automakers like Ford, GMC and Tesla along with start-ups Rivian, Bolinger Motors, Nikola and Lordstown Motors are prepared to enter the battleground of electric pickups sales.
Many of these trucks take advantage of other benefits of electric motors besides just the heavyweight pulling power they enable. Electric motors are also far more compact than gasoline engines and they don't require a transmission with multiple gears freeing up lots of room for lockable storage space.
Electric trucks can provide power for electric tools on job sites and, since they don't burn gasoline or diesel and have fewer moving parts to maintain, they'll be cheaper to operate. Fleet buyers, who look most closely at the cost of operation, will probably be among the first buyers.
Read the article at CNN.
