Six Factors to Watch When Managing Repair Cycle Time
By John Wolford, Vice President, Business Process, Quality, and Sourcing
The longer a fleet vehicle is out of service because of an accident, the more it’s costing your organization in lost revenue and productivity or in rental fees for a temporary replacement. That’s why keeping your fleet’s average repair cycle time under control should be a constant priority.
Which raises two questions: how long should collision repairs take, and what can a fleet manager do to make them as short as possible? The answer to the first is, every repair is different, but the time it should take is roughly related to the estimated cost. The answer to the second lies in identifying the most common reasons repairs can take longer than they should or could.
Webinar: Safer With Sensors: Modernizing Your Fleet Safety Program
Safer With Sensors: Modernizing Your Fleet Safety Program
Date: 03/21/2018
Time:12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
Instructor: Eleanor Horowitz, Product Marketing Manager, Samsara
In this webinar, learn how modern sensor technology can provide a live window into what's really happening on the road -- and how you can use this information to build a comprehensive program that gets buy-in and results.
Get Out of Your Own Way!
By Walter Bond, Hall of Fame Business Speaker & Former Big Ten & NBA Basketball Player
It’s another start to the day. Another start to a new week or new month. But what happened? What happened to the plan of attack you created? What happened to the strategies you determined would get you from here to there?
Aren’t you tired of doing the same thing over and over again only to realize it’s not delivering “‘Your Best.” That your approach is NOT getting you to the next level?
But why do we keep doing things that don’t lead us to the harvest we want? Why do we think we can do things our old way and get something new? It never happens and it never will. It’s time for us all to Get Out of our Own Way. What do I mean by that?
VW Introduces Fully Electric Flagship, the I.D. Vizzion
VW’s EV production flagship vehicle, the 400-mile-plus range Vizzion will come to market by 2022.
Free of steering wheel and pedals, the Vizzion concept boasts a roomy cabin for four that identifies its owner with a facial scan, then adjust the interior accordingly — seat depth, soundtrack, scents — and responds to voice commands and gesture controls for instructions.
“We are betting the farm on electric,” Greg Lucia, director of experiential marketing at VW America, told The Detroit News last year. “We are making things differently now. Electric suits our product. And e-GRC is a great way to showcase it.”
Read the article at The Detroit News.
Spartan Motors Teams With Motiv Power Systems
Spartan Fleet Vehicles and Services (“Spartan”), a business unit of Spartan Motors, Inc. which goes to market under the Utilimaster® and Spartan Upfit Services brands, announced today it has signed an exclusive supply agreement with Motiv Power Systems, a leading producer of all-electric chassis for walk-in vans, box trucks, work trucks, buses, and other specialty vehicles.
The agreement provides Spartan exclusive access to Motiv’s EPIC™ all electric chassis in manufacturing Class 4 – Class 6 walk-in vans for a minimum of three years. With this joint commitment, the companies can produce zero-emission, economical and reliable all-electric walk-in vans for fleets and expect to build hundreds of such vehicles over the course of the agreement.
