’Top 5’ Phone Contacts Can Reduce Distracted Driving by 85%
New research shows the five people you text most can significantly reduce how often you are distracted behind the wheel.
The AT&T findings says 80 percent of drivers would likely stop or reduce phone use if their 'Top 5' contacts ask them to do so.
"Even though most of us have hundreds of smartphone contacts in our phone with us, we really only communicate with five of them," said Suzanne Trantow with AT&T Corporate Communications. "Our top five."
General Motors and Navistar Agree to Build Commercial Trucks
If anyone needs a reminder of the cyclical nature of America’s economy, there’s no better example (this week, at least) than today’s announcement from General Motors that it will collaborate with commercial-truck giant Navistar International to design and build midsize commercial trucks.
It is a market GM desperately wanted to exit less than a decade ago. The company was barreling towards its inevitable insolvency and the U.S. economy was, unknown at the time, being rigged with the groundwork for the Great Recession.
Zero Tolerance
There is no shortage of evidence that distracted driving is increasingly involved in deadly vehicle crashes each year, yet the practice persists. Shockingly, the NHTSA says that a whopping 80 percent of all motor vehicle crashes involve a distracted driver, resulting in about 3,000 deaths.
With those sobering statistics in mind, we are heartened by the strong policy that NAFA Fleet Management Association has adopted for all its employees, contractors and volunteers, prohibiting the use of any electronic device – handheld or hands free – while engaged in the act of driving.
NAFA CEO Phillip E. Russo, CAE, says, “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.”
Janice Sutton
Executive Editor
L’Oréal Appoints Fleet Logistics to Manage Nordics Fleet
The Nordics division of the world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal, has appointed European fleet management provider Fleet Logistics to manage its fleet of 380 vehicles in four Scandinavian countries.
Having decided to employ the services of a professional fleet management provider to help professionalize its operation, L’Oréal Nordics went out to tender, selecting four different prospective suppliers. However, the final choice of partner was very straightforward, said Jean-Baptiste Pivard, Purchasing Manager for L’Oréal Nordics, based in Copenhagen. “In the end it was a very simple decision for us. Fleet Logistics was the only potential partner capable of providing us with a first-rate fleet management service across the region and in all our four operating countries,” he said.
How to Turn Conflict Into a Transformative Experience
By Sarah Sheldrick
Conflict can be a functional tool for a better workplace environment.
Conflict covers a vast spectrum of disparate relationships: it can range from mere disagreement to war. There can be conflict between individuals and institutions, or between governments or nation-states.
Conflict, when dealt with effectively and functionally, can improve relationships and makes us stronger and more confident. So, what are the steps to turn conflict into a transformative experience?
