Time is Money to the Modern Mobile Worker
By Matthew Betz, Vice President Business Development, Fleet at Motus, LLC
“Time is Money” – Benjamin Franklin
“Productivity – The amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy – is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of CEOs and Finance Ministers.” – Tim Jackson
It’s not often that you can improve on a Benjamin Franklin quote, but for purposes of our conversation today, I really think Tim Jackson’s quote is much more useful. The question you may be asking yourself, as a fleet professional, is “Why should I be thinking about driver productivity? After all, isn’t that the job of sales management, or operations management, or an efficiency consultant?” My answer is simple – If the quest for increased productivity is what haunts your CEO, doesn’t it benefit you to find opportunities to help the Modern Mobile Worker increase efficiency and productivity?
Vehicle Transport Keeps Evolving
This vehicle transport company acts as the eyes and ears of fleet managers -- providing accurate and timely information around the condition of the vehicle.
NHTSA Needs More Cash to Enforce Auto Safety
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to expand its abilities to ensure a 60 million recall year doesn’t happen again and it basically needs one thing above all else to make it happen: cash.
Avoiding a replay of a year that included events like General Motors’ recall of 2.6 million small cars due to a defective ignition switch that ultimately led to the deaths of at least 51 people and Takata’s faulty airbags that explode sending shrapnel into the cabins of vehicle, resulting in the recall of more than 10 million vehicles in the U.S. and five deaths requires manpower, the agency explains, and manpower costs money.
More Drivers Now Stoned Than Drunk, Survey Says
There’s little question that the nation’s highways are safer than ever, with traffic-related fatalities at historic lows. However, one trend that has safety officials concerned is that operating a motor vehicle under the influence of prescription drugs or marijuana is fast exceeding drunk driving in the U.S.
While stricter and more aggressively enforced drunk-driving laws has helped reduce the number of motorists having alcohol in their system by nearly one-third since 2007, one in four drivers tested positive for at least one drug that could influence his or her safety behind the wheel.
Intel’s Ben Carter: Sharing ‘Best Known Methods’ in Fleet Management
Ben Carter, Sales Operations Manager at Intel, has been managing the company’s fleet for less than a year. We caught up with him several months ago at NAFA’s International Fleet Academy and asked him to give us his observations on the fleet industry.
He said, “The biggest observation that I have seen from the fleet industry is the wealth of knowledge and the willingness of people in the industry to share it.
“From my perspective, it feels like the people involved in fleet are in a unique role, regardless of what company or industry they are in. In a lot of companies, the fleet business isn’t driving revenue, so the major focus of the company isn’t necessarily on the fleet management. So you have smaller group of people all doing something unique within their company, and these same people know what it can be like to be on an island managing a powerful business without a lot of inside help.”
