NAFA Names New Members to Board of Directors
NAFA's Nominating Committee has completed its work and selected four candidates to fill the expiring terms of current members of the Board of Directors. The committee selected:
- David Hayward, Deloitte (Re-nominated; currently serves on the Board as Secretary/Treasurer)
- Robert Mossing, Steris Corporation
- Adam Seifert, CAFM®, ARI
- Mark A. Smith, CAFM®, Element Fleet Management
Why Reducing Fleet Risk Requires More than Just Telematics Data
By Ed Dubens, CEO & Founder, eDriving
Telematics technology is largely credited with changing fleet management.
In fact, a quick search of telematics online suggests that it is a vital part of fleet management, that monitoring drivers is increasingly accepted, and that telematics provides fleet managers with the information they need, when they want it and how they want to digest it.
Yet, as technology adoption becomes more and more commonplace for fleets and having personally witnessed some of the world’s largest fleets successfully reduce the number of collisions, injuries and license violations, as well as their total cost of ownership (TCO), I have an insight to share with fleet managers: telematics alone is not enough!
PARS: 20 Years of Solving Customer Problems, from the Simple to the Very Complex
“At everything we do, we do the best we can"
By Mark Boada, Executive
Back in 1998, when Jim Christiano retired from a long career at General Motors, he created a new company to serve the needs of automotive fleets looking to relocate their vehicles. He called it, simply enough, PARS – short for Professional Automobile Relocation Service – and set up shop in Gainesville, Virginia, some 35 miles west of Washington, D.C. As Jim puts it, the idea was simple: to move vehicles from Point A to B.
Preparation Made the Difference in How Quickly Alaska Fixed its Earthquake-Shattered Roads
The earthquake hit on Friday morning at 8:29AM local time. By the next Wednesday at 4AM, all eight major transportation corridors that had been severely damaged by the quake had re-opened.
The rapid response to damage in Anchorage shows how investing time and money into preparations for these kinds of large, infrastructure-hobbling events can pay off in the long-run, even when there’s no way to tell when or where disaster may strike.
Read the article at The Verge.
Experts Say Killing Electric Car Tax Credit Would Punish Consumers and Hurt Economy
Trump may be trying to punish General Motors with his threat to kill a federal subsidy for electric vehicles, but it might be consumers who would feel the most pain, auto experts say.
Eliminating the $7500 tax credit would slow the EV market by making vehicles more expensive, says David Reichmuth, a senior engineer in the Clean Vehicles Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Automakers are still going to invest in dozens of new electric models to sell in markets such as Europe and China, Reichmuth says.
Read the article at Consumer Reports.
