LeasePlan to Share Expertise at Conference of Automotive Remarketing
Levi McCoy, director of remarketing at LeasePlan, and president of International Automotive Remarketers Alliance (IARA), will share his industry expertise during the 2015 Conference of Automotive Remarketing on March 18-19 in Las Vegas.
Levi’s experience and extensive knowledge of the remarketing industry will allow him to share valuable information with attendees at each session.
Telematics is a Game-Changer
The right data helps fleet managers make the right decisions - and the information you can get from telematics today just keeps getting better.
Hertz Puts Cameras in Rental Cars – Claims No Plans to Use Them
This week I got an angry email from a friend who had just rented a car from Hertz: “Did you know Hertz is putting cameras in rental cars!? This is bulls**t. I wonder if it says they can tape me in my Hertz contract.” He sent along this photo of a camera peeping at him from out of his “NeverLost,” a navigational device that the company has started putting in many of its cars.
“I even felt weird about singing in the car by myself,” he said. A Googling expedition revealed that my friend was not the first person driven to disturbance by the in-car surveillance system.
CEI Names Michael Kotula Southeast Regional Sales Manager
The CEI Group, Inc. (CEI), a fleet driver management service provider, announced the appointment of Michael Kotula as Southeast regional sales manager.
“Michael’s combined experience, with risk management as well as with claims in managed repair programs, provides valuable perspective on the accident, safety and risk management needs of our fleet clients,” said Wayne Smolda, CEI’s president and chief executive officer. “His insights will help them mitigate risk and reduce financial exposure.” READ MORE
Oregon Pilots New Road Pricing Scheme
By Michael Sheldrick, Senior Editor
Because Oregon was the first state to adopt a gasoline tax — in 1919 — it’s only fitting that it is the first state to adopt a road pricing project. At this point it is only a pilot program for light vehicles, and it will begin in July with 5,000 volunteers.
Initially, the program is designed to be revenue-neutral. Drivers who chose the road pricing option will pay 1.5 cents per mile driven. They will receive a rebate on gasoline taxes if they are less than the mileage. One of the reasons for adoption of the program —OReGO — was that hybrids and EVs were not paying for the roads that are financed by the gasoline tax — along with federal matching funds, also provided by those taxes.
That could become a bigger problem in the future, but the problem is immediate.
