Why Should You Invest in Training and Certifications for Your Fleet Staff?
Four leading sponsors, 12 different certifications
By Kevin J Fisher, MBA, CAFM, CTP, Senior Consultant, Mercury Associates
This question comes up often, particularly with more-tenured fleet professionals and frequently with the constant budget pressures in many of today’s organizations, both in the private and public sectors. Today, training is available in the form of webinars, online training modules and testing, live classroom sessions at various industry association conferences, local colleges and universities.
In my experience, an investment in fleet management training and certifications pays dividends in the long run for both the organization and the employee. These dividends come in the form of more engaged and motivated employees, who are better equipped to deal with the constant pace of change and innovation in the marketplace.
This happens not only through training and certifications but by networking at industry association events with both fellow fleet professionals and vendors. Both can provide up to date information on new products and services available in the marketplace today.
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Drivers Afraid of Their Own Cars Due to Faulty Braking Systems
Automatic braking systems are designed to make cars and driving safer than ever.
But when the feature malfunctions it can have the opposite effect, wrecking a driver’s confidence in driving at all.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received over 400 individual complaints over the past three years from Nissan, Honda, Volkswagen and other automakers over automatic braking issues.
The tech isn’t uniformly defined in the industry, partly because it’s so new. Some buyers aren’t even aware their car has such abilities.
Read the article at MSN.
Drowsy Driving Rates Reduced With Lytx Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence Technology
Drowsy driving and falling asleep behind the wheel are dramatically declining among commercial and public sector fleet drivers who use the Lytx Driver Safety Program.
Lytx data reflects a 39 percent reduction in drowsy driving events among Lytx clients from June 2018 to June 2019, and a 66 percent reduction in drivers falling asleep behind the wheel.
"Our cutting-edge machine vision and artificial intelligence technology specifically address drowsy and distracted driving with the goal of helping our clients understand these risky behaviors in their fleets so they can proactively address them," said Michael Phillippi, vice president of technology at Lytx.
Read the article at Yahoo! Finance.
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