Managing Preventative Maintenance Compliance
Managing preventative maintenance compliance is really about managing appropriate driver behavior. The good news is that Donlen provides the tools and technology to make this whole process easier.
Kontos Kommentary — December 2015 Edition
Tom Kontos, EVP, Customer Strategies and Analytics at ADESA, provides expert insight and updates on used vehicle market conditions.
No Parking Here
You’ve heard how robocars are going to upend the economy. But have you thought about what they’ll do to urban space?
A 2011 study at the University of California-Berkeley found that the United States has somewhere close to a billion parking spots. Since there are only 253 million passenger cars and light trucks in the country, that means we have roughly four times more parking spaces than vehicles. If you totaled up all the area devoted to parking, it'd be roughly 6,500 square miles, bigger than Connecticut.
Social critics often complain that the interstate highway system deformed the United States by encouraging sprawl. But the metastasizing of parking has had equally profound effects. On an aesthetic level, it makes cities grimly ugly. Economically, it is expensive to build. A study by the Sightline Institute found that at least 15 percent of the price of rent in Seattle stemmed from developers' cost of building parking.
Connected Fleets on a Collision Course
There is a lot of buzz around connected vehicles, and for a good reason. The size of the business opportunity is huge. Navigant estimates that pure revenue from connected vehicle systems is expected to grow from $96.3 million annually next year and to $36.6 billion by 2025.
In addition to improving road safety and fuel consumption, connected vehicles can improve productivity for fleet management. Trucking is a huge industry which is vital to the US economy, so anything that improves its efficiency has a big impact. Nearly 3 million heavy-duty vehicles move approximately 70% of the nation’s freight, about 9.2 billion tons annually, according to the American Trucking Associations.
Nominations for NAFA’s FLEXYs close Today, January 22!
It's your final your chance to gain recognition for the good work done by you and your fleet in 2015!
After January 22 NO SUBMISSIONS will be accepted, so you must act now.
