AFLA Canada 2020 Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for the AFLA Canada 2020 Fleet Summit, which is focusing on North American Best Practices & Benchmarking for anyone who has responsibilities within the Canadian fleet marketplace.
The preliminary program is outlined on the AFLA website here, and you'll see that they are covering topics such as Understanding the Differences Between the Canadian and U.S. Fleet Markets, Achieving Sustainability Using Fleet Electrification without Breaking the Bank, and Order-to-Delivering Issues - just to name a few.
Register now to attend AFLA Canada 2020 Fleet Summit from February 12-13, 2020!
Elon Musk Wants Underground Roads Just For Electric Vehicles
Elon Musk’s plan of building a series of tunnels under major cities is proving rather slow-going but the outspoken entrepreneur appears as committed to the cause as ever.
Musk recently shared a poll on Twitter asking people to vote on “super safe, Earthquake-proof tunnels under cities to solve traffic” with available answers being “Definitely”, “Maybe”, and “No, I like traffic.” The pole attracted no less than 1,458,548 votes before it was closed.
Musk went on to add that these tunnels would be “for zero emissions vehicles only – no toxic fumes is key. Really, just an underground road, but limited to EVs (from all auto companies). This is not in place of other solutions, eg light rail, but supplemental to them.
Read the article at Car Scoops.
Ridecell: A Key Player in Fleet Mobility Transformation
By Mark Boada, Executive Editor
Want help in making your fleet part of the mobility revolution? Want to be sure your pooled fleet is operating at maximum utilization?
Then look no further than Ridecell, a San Francisco-based company that has been selected as a strategic partner by some of the biggest names in the industry, like Penske, 3M, BMW, Volkswagen, and Denso, the Japanese maker of automotive components.
Not one to be bashful about its prowess, the company bills itself as having “the world's most intelligent mobility platform.”
To learn more, Fleet Management Weekly recently spoke with Mark Thomas, Ridecell's vice president of marketing and strategic alliances. READ MORE
Fleet Liability: Negligent Hiring, Retention and Supervision
By Trent Dressen, Director of Sales, SuperVison
March 1997, a 23 year-old man was driving his Chevy 4×4 pickup truck when he was hit by a semi-truck owned by a commercial trucking company.
The semi-truck crossed the centerline and hit the pickup truck head-on. The young man suffered a ruptured left anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, which required reconstructive surgery. He sued the trucking company for negligent hiring, retention, and supervision of its driver due to the truck drivers’ record.
Between 1978 and 1997, the driver had been convicted of 21 traffic violations, most of which involved speeding, a DUI, and he was driving with a suspended license at the time of the accident.
Data Visualization: 3 Flavors of Reporting
PARS offers some innovative reporting that’s based around data visualization - which makes it easy to see and understand what’s happening with your vehicles.
