Donlen Makes Fleet Data Management Easy With FleetWeb Intelligence Reporting
With fleet managers feeling overwhelmed by all of the data they process and analyze, Donlen has made it easier for fleet professionals to manage and organize their data with a new robust report builder, FleetWeb Intelligence Reporting.
“Donlen’s interactive Report Builder was designed for fleet professionals to satisfy their reporting needs at all levels of their business,” said Jeff Pursell, vice president, technology products. “Reporting examples include executive summary fleet trends, exception-based driver issues, and web service subscriptions to provide immediate integration with internal systems.”
Four Eastern States Plan to Test Mile-based GasolineTaxes
The origins of road pricing are lost in the mists of history, but probably began thousands of years ago just after the first horse trod over the first road. Unloved by nearly all (all?) travelers, road pricing, nevertheless, has been with us ever since.
We pay tolls; many cities have congestion- or time-of-day pricing, most of them overseas. Road pricing schemes are also used to cut noise, pollution, or the number of vehicles themselves.
And while many efforts to institute road pricing of one form or another have failed because of vigorous opposition, new plans are launched all the time.
The latest is an effort by four member states of the 16-state I-95 Coalition, which includes all East Coast states as well as Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
Start Small in Big Groups
By Wendy Eichenbaum
Last month, we discussed how to construct questions for interviewing your customers. But when you talk with your customers in groups, there are additional challenges.
Some customers want to contribute to every question, while others only speak when singled out by the moderator.
While a skilled moderator can control the flow of answers, it’s often helpful to include exercises that start with small group discussions, where customers don’t compete for attention. And then bring all customers together for a discussion of findings.
One way to do this is with an exercise called “Dump and Clump.” This is a brainstorming tool that allows users to “dump” all of their ideas, and then “clump” the individual ideas together in logical groups.
Which Vehicles Hold Their Value Best? And Which Are Total Depreciation Disasters?
What part of owning a vehicle do you suppose costs the most? Fuel? Taxes and fees? Maintenance?
Actually, what costs the most is selling your car, when you take the depreciation hit. Time marches on, miles pile up, and value slips away.
On average, vehicles lose almost half their original value within the first three years. The two ways of looking at this figure are depreciation and retained value, i.e., glass half-empty or glass half-full. A vehicle that depreciates 35 percent retains 65 percent of its original value.
Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?
People say that one day, perhaps in the not-so-distant future, they’d like to be passengers in self-driving cars that are mindful machines doing their best for the common good.
Merge politely. Watch for pedestrians in the crosswalk. Keep a safe space.
A new research study, however, indicates that what people really want to ride in is an autonomous vehicle that puts its passengers first. If its machine brain has to choose between slamming into a wall or running someone over, well, sorry, pedestrian.
