Success, and the Willingness to Fail
The willingness to fail is actually quite important to the success and longevity of all sorts of companies, fleet management companies included.
Could What is Happening with Food Deliveries Happen with Fleets?
As the distribution, logistics and fleet industries continue to evolve and change, why couldn’t what is happening with food deliveries in cities happen with fleets that are delivering goods?
Lyft Announces Safety Changes Advocated by Victims in Wake of Scrutiny
Lyft has partnered with RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, to add the mandatory community safety education. New drivers will take the training immediately, while existing drivers will be asked to complete it within a certain time frame.
It also added the new smart trip check-in feature, which the company promised to put in place this year. That will prompt Lyft to check in with riders and drivers to ask if they need help or even to call emergency services if there are unexplained delays with a trip.
Lyft said it will package all of its safety features in a single location within the app. Users’ location and vehicle information, such as license plate numbers, will be displayed prominently so they can inform dispatchers of the details of their trip, though the feature stops short of transmitting that information directly to dispatchers.
Read the article at The Washington Post.
A Time of Transformation
Kris Bush is excited about his new role at LeasePlan USA, where he is charged with both creating new products and also with improving and enhancing existing ones.
We Celebrate AFLA Award Winners!
AFLA has really outdone itself celebrating its 50th anniversary at its 2019 Annual Corporate Fleet Conference, running three days at the spectacular Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix. Of course, the main fare is another fine series of presentations on all things fleet, but the highlight was last night's awards dinner.
Congratulations to Erin Gilchrist, director of fleet for Safelite AutoGlass, this year's winner of the Fleet Manager of the Year award and Kenneth Jack, VP of fleet operations at Verizon, who was honored as Fleet Executive of the Year. AFLA celebrated four new inductees to AFLA's Fleet Hall of Fame: Theresa Rogazine, recently retired VP for fleet procurement at Johnson & Johnson; Joe LaRosa, former SVP at Merck for global fleet management; and two late industry leaders, Bud Morrison, AFLA's first president, and Bob Miesen, one-time SVP GE Capital Fleet and the originator of floating rate fleet finance.
Look next week for our own Mark Boada's take on this year's gala conference.
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
