Merchants Fleet Management Announces Kenneth Johns as Regional Sales Manager
Merchants Fleet Management is pleased to announce that Ken Johns has joined their team as Regional Sales Manager with his territory focus in Alabama and Mississippi. Ken comes to Merchants with over 29 years of professional fleet sales and management experience.
Ken began his career at McCullagh Leasing in 1987 and progressed through numerous roles within the organization. He did this while developing new business relationships in all sizes of the fleet management markets including small, mid and large accounts throughout the Southeast.
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The Safest & Deadliest States For Car Accidents
Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute asked themselves about the most dangerous states for auto-related death -- and decided to find an answer.
To do that, they looked at traffic fatality stats from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for calendar year 2013 (the most recent year available). And just to make things interesting, Sivak and Schoettle did a little fancy math to see how highway fatalities compared to deaths as a whole.
Material Handling Doesn’t Have to be Scary
By Keith Trumbull
For some, managing the safe use of pallet jacks, forklifts and other items is as daunting as the zombie apocalypse, but material handling equipment doesn’t have to be scary.
According to the US Department of Labor, from October 1, 2014 through August 29, 2015 there have been more than 55 fatalities related to the operation of forklifts, manlifts or scissor lifts. One death is too many and a properly developed and implemented safety plan will go a long way to reducing injuries, including fatalities, related to the operation of your equipment.
The tips below outline the features of a material handling equipment plan and why it’s smart to have a program in place.
NAFA Issues Distracted Driving Position Statement, Adopts No-Tolerance Policy
When an organization takes a stand and states certain behaviors are unacceptable, one can tell how seriously that organization honors that position by whether they themselves abide by it.
NAFA Fleet Management Association recognizes that the life blood of the job is the driver and the act of driving, and that the use of electronic devices while driving is dangerous to everyone on the road.
In October 2015, NAFA will issue the Association’s position statement regarding distracted driving, adopting a strong policy for all of its employees, contractors, and volunteers prohibiting the use of any electronic device – handheld or hands-free – while engaged in the act of driving.
“There cannot be any ambivalence about our position, no hypocrisy, no loopholes. We are the association for fleet professionals, and so the example has to begin with us,” said NAFA Chief Executive Officer Phillip E. Russo, CAE. “Our ‘no devices while driving’ policy has been in effect for two years internally, and now we are extending that insistence to our contractors and partners.”
