The Way You Win
In today’s Customer Driven, Laura Jozwiak articulately explains “that the way you win is not what happens in one moment, but what happens and how you prepare over many moments.” Practice makes perfect.
Crash Rates and Costs Keep Rising
In the Safety & Risk column, Art Liggio considers why it is that crash rates and costs are going up, even as safety technologies proliferate. It’s a situation we all want to get a handle on!
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Drinking Coffee, Singing or Rolling Down the Window Won’t Keep a Driver Alert
In a recent study, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reviewed dashboard video from 700 accidents and found that 9.5% of all crashes involved drowsy drivers, based on the portion of time the drivers’ eyes were closed in the minutes before a crash.
The study, described as the most in-depth ever conducted on drowsy driving, recruited 3,593 drivers from six places across the country who allowed cameras to be placed in their cars for several months at a time from October 2010 to December 2013.
“As many Americans struggle to balance their busy schedules, missing a few hours of sleep each day can often seem harmless,” said Jake Nelson, AAA’s director of traffic safety advocacy and research. “But missing just two to three hours of sleep can more than quadruple your risk for a crash, which is the equivalent of driving drunk.”
Read the article at USA Today.
MetroGistics Selected as NIADA National Corporate Partner
Automotive Logistics Services Provider Offers Association Members Preferred Pricing, Credit and Title Registration Services
St. Louis and Arlington, Texas, Feb. 13, 2018 – MetroGistics, a provider of automotive logistics services, has been selected by the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association as a Bronze-level National Corporate Partner.
MetroGistics will offer preferred pricing on vehicle moves, along with extended credit, to the more than 16,000 NIADA member dealerships.
Want to Morph from ‘Fleet’ to ‘Mobility’ Manager?
By Mark Boada, Senior Editor
“Mobility management” is one of the latest buzz phrases in the fleet world, and it’s a concept that some predict is the future of fleet management. Now, you may have heard about that a lot recently, but do you really know what it means and, more importantly, how you’re supposed to get there?
Well Sixt, the largest car rental company in Germany, No. 2 in Europe and a global player in around 120 countries worldwide, has answers, and it’s planning to bring its solution – the only one of its kind, it claims -- to the U.S. this year.
Fleet Management Weekly last week interviewed Stuart Donnelly, Sixt’s Senior Director of Group International Sales for Northern Europe and the U.S. about the company’s business mobility vision. Sixt, founded as a rental car company in 1912, has since added a leasing business unit and other mobility solutions such as carsharing, corporate travel, limousine services, ride-hailing, and mobility consulting. Previously run as separate businesses, Sixt recently started to offer them all via a single sales unit, according to Donnelly, “to bring one-stop mobility to the global market in both the consumer and business-to-business environments.”
So, what, exactly, is “mobility management” and what makes it different from “fleet management”?
Irena Dmitry Appointed Director of Marketing and Communications at Driving Dynamics
Driving Dynamics Inc. announced that Irena Dmitry has moved into the role of director of marketing and communications, reporting to Art Liggio, president and CEO.
“Irena and I have had a professional affiliation for close to two decades now. Throughout her career, she’s brought an entrepreneurial approach to marketing programs and has a progressive skill set that spans across a broad range of marketing and communications functions.” said Art Liggio, president and CEO. “Those qualities, combined with her knowledge of Driving Dynamics’ culture and services made her the right choice for the newly formed director position.”
