The Top Three 2018 Trends to Look Out for in Vehicle Capital Costs
Depreciation, new vehicle prices and residual value all affect industries with mobile workforces – here’s what you need to know in the year ahead.
Ken Robinson, market research analyst at Motus, discusses a number of rising trends that will influence businesses with mobile workforces in the coming year, including increasing depreciation, rising new vehicle prices and declining residual values.
ARI Recognized as One of the Best Workplaces in Canada for Second Consecutive Year
ARI announced it has been recognized as one of the 2018 Best Workplaces™ in Canada. Ranked at number 26, this marks the second consecutive year ARI has been named to the Canadian list.
“We are incredibly proud to be recognized as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada and being named to the list for the second year in a row is a tremendous honor,” said Geoff Seely, vice president and general manager, ARI Canada. “We seek to foster a culture that is supportive, collaborative and based around a sense of family. We invest in the development and well-being of our people because at the end of the day, our success as a business is the direct result of their hard work and dedication.”
The Next Advance in Fleet Communication Efficiency: ‘Conversational Systems’
It's a brave new world there, folks. Conversational systems are yet another step forward in making the fleet world braver and newer
By Mark Boada, Executive Editor
Imagine you're a fleet manager with a diminished support staff, and today you've received dozens of phone calls from drivers asking to replace a lost fuel card, fielded dozens more from drivers who want to know when their new car or newly upfitted truck will be delivered, and called a few dozen more who have yet to renew their vehicle registration. Meanwhile, there are few hundred drivers coming up to their next due date for routine vehicle maintenance and you know a bunch are going to forget to make their appointment.
Finding this hard to imagine? Not likely – all too easy instead, right?
Autonomous Vehicle Makers Need to Slow Down
After the Uber crash and the death of a Tesla driver using Autopilot, the self-driving promoters defend their technology with the same set of facts - every year, 40,000 people die on American roads - robot drivers, who don’t get tired, distracted, or drunk, would dramatically reduce that number.
Putting a serious dent in road death numbers would take decades, since robots could have to gradually replace more than a billion vehicles worldwide.
“If the goal is specific, targeted, and it resonates with your customers or important stakeholders, then they buy into it,” says Stephanos Zenios at Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial studies, who teaches successful launch techniques at a “Startup Garage” MBA course. “It has to solve a real problem that someone has, and which is a pain for them.”
Read the article at Wired.
It’s a Paradigm Shift!
NAFA’s 2018 I&E wrapped last Friday, but the message that the industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from fleet to mobility management will long resonate.
In NAFA Urges Fleet Managers to Take the Lead in Mobility Management, NAFA President Bryan Flansburg says, “And who will control the mobility spend in your organization? Someone will need to, and who is in a better position than you?” Indeed!
Martha Garcia-Perry, VP of Growth Initiatives & Integration at MetroGistics/AmeriFleet, writes on the wealth of opportunities that Mobility as a Service (MaaS) will offer fleets and fleet managers. She says, "There’s a learning curve, too, but those who are bold enough to lead the way should reap substantial rewards."
Carpe diem, drive the change!
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
