Pedestrians: Look Before You Step
Back-to-school is upon us and with it, more pedestrian traffic, everywhere from suburban side streets to the main drags in college towns.
Already signs with slogans such as “Drive like your kids live here!” are sprouting in my neighborhood and I’ve been noticing more of those little day-glo yellow lawn figures that say “slow” and hold out orange traffic flags as a caution.
If you ever wondered, they are called Kid Alert and sell for $25-$50 at big-box retailers and online In fact, there seems to be quite a thriving industry of eye-catching signage warning drivers to watch out for children.
Michele Cunningham: Element Fleet Reimagines and Rebuilds Its Technology Solutions
Element Fleet has been busy reimagining and rebuilding their technology solutions, and their clients have been a very important part of that process.
NAFA Announces New Way To Earn CAFS® Fleet Certification
Individuals interested in proving their mastery of fleet management now have a new way of doing so through the Certified Automotive Fleet Specialist (CAFS®) program offered by NAFA.
NAFA’s CAFS® program is based on the Association’s Certified Automotive Fleet Manager (CAFM®) program, which tests individuals’ expertise in eight core disciplines of fleet management. The CAFS® program tests an individual’s expertise in four disciplines.
"The CAFS® program has been in existence for several years,” said Phillip E. Russo, CAE, NAFA’s Chief Executive Officer. ”However, in the past, individuals enrolled in the CAFS® program had to choose one of three ‘streams’ that dictated the disciplines in which they were tested. Now, individuals can choose any four disciplines and, if they pass those exams, will earn their CAFS® designation.”
Q&A with Runzheimer’s Dillon Blake: The Transformation of Mobility Management
By Mike Sheldrick
Without fear of contradiction, it can be said that the next ten years will see greater change to the automotive industry than the last fifty -- or even more.
At the extreme, there will be significant numbers of autonomous vehicles. Indeed, we are witnessing several on-the-road, real-life experiments.
More generally, we have begun to think much more deeply about the issue of mobility. Individual car ownership or leasing may be in decline, and we will confront a transportation system combining conventional cars and trucks, autonomous cabs, shared rides, mass transit, and yes, even bicycles and walking.
In that vein, we recently sat down with Dillon Blake, Senior Director of Runzheimer, to talk about how many of these topics affect the age-old question of reimbursement vs. leasing as well as the recent entry of fleet management companies into reimbursement.
Paul Lauria: Government Fleets are Too Big a Market to Ignore
Government didn’t used to be an attractive market to the fleet management companies, but there are some very strong reasons why that may change.
