We Honor our Best and Brightest in Fleet!
Nominations for FLEXY Awards close this Saturday and we urge you to submit a nomination for a worthy fleet professional to be honored with NAFA’s prestigious Fleet Excellence Award. It’s an easy process to nominate someone, and just think how proud you will feel if your special nominee steps on stage at I&E in Anaheim to receive the award. Priceless.
In Safety & Risk, Driving Dynamics president Art Liggio raises some chilling concerns about the risks of drugged driving. We live in California, where the recreational use of marijuana has just been legalized, so clearly we are sharing the road with buzzed drivers. To identify those drivers, Driving Dynamics has a terrific safety bulletin Watch Out for the ‘Other Driver’ – you can download the pdf here and get it in the hands of your drivers.
Drive Safety!
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
As the Climate Changes, so will the Trucking Industry
The predicted changes in the environment will impact many aspects of the trucking industry from training to infrastructure.
Schedules, routes, fuel costs, technology and emergency training are just a few of the elements that weather will impact.
"Trucking is an industry that has the potential to align its environmental concerns with its business concerns and prepare for an uncertain environmental future. Even if some of the more dire climate change predictions never come to pass, this shift toward environmental responsibility and adaptability are still likely to affect the trucking industry in the years and decades to come."
Read the article at USA Today.
VWFS Selects Sofico’s Miles Platform in Mexico
Pictured: Henning Boettcher, VWFS Mexico’s Chief Information Officer
Volkswagen Financial Services in Mexico has selected the Miles platform from global automotive finance, leasing and fleet software provider, Sofico, which currently manages more than 1.5 million vehicle contracts on a global basis, to better service its fleet, retail and insurance business lines throughout the country.
VWFS Mexico is currently in the midst of an intensive full service leasing implementation process with Miles, the leading hybrid fleet and retail contract management system, which it is set to complete in the third quarter of this year.
Creating A Safety Culture That Surpasses Compliance Goals
By Brian Kinniry, Senior Director of Strategic Services, The CEI Group, Inc.
Some fleets believe they have a full-fledged safety program when, in reality, the methods in place keep drivers compliant but never truly involve those drivers in the safety culture. Make sure your fleet is doing more than the bare minimum for compliance and create a true safety culture that engages the workforce.
So, how do you instill a safety culture for your fleet instead of a compliance-focused culture? First, we must define the terms. Compliance in this sense is a bare minimum approach that allows a fleet admin to check off certain boxes without taking the next step. But that is not a safety culture.
A safety culture is an attitude that permeates all levels of business where there is an acceptance and understanding of the role safety plays – to the point that safe practices become second nature.
A Look at What’s New for NAFA I&E in Anaheim
NAFA I&E is happening in Anaheim in April, where over 2,000 fleet professionals will come together for three and a half days of intense networking, education and fun.
