The Modern Mobile Worker: Doing the Right Thing

By Matthew Betz, Vice President Business Development, Fleet at Motus, LLC

“I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.” -- Lou Holtz

Most people recognize Lou Holtz for his long and distinguished football career, but as it turns out, he has a life philosophy that we can all use in our personal and professional lives. Whether you are a mobile employee, or a fleet professional, Lou’s philosophy fits the need for IRS compliance particularly well. All drivers should do the right thing by keeping an IRS-compliant mileage log, fleet managers can do their best to help drivers understand the rules and to be compliant, and we can show drivers that we care by showing them how to avoid IRS audits.

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GE Capital: Fleet Market Economic Outlook

GE Capital has just released a national survey of 409 executives at middle market companies (ranging from $10 million - <$1 billion in sales) who have responsibility for their company’s vehicle fleets.

The survey results provide an outlook on a variety of important economic, industry, and business-level issues, including growth expectations and financing needs.

Notably, the survey found that one in five fleets plans on increasing in size next year, with just 13 planning to decrease. Additional findings from the survey include:

Ford Unveils Less-Distracting Sync Digital System

Ford Motor unveiled the third generation of its Sync in-car connectivity system Thursday with a promise that it will be simpler and have a more natural voice-command interface.

It is a whole new system that drops past partner Microsoft for Canada's QNX software from Blackberry. And it drops the MyFordTouch and MyLincolnTouch names for Sync 3.

READ MORE about the new system.

Azuga, Verizon Wireless to Provide Reliable Wireless M2M Services

Verizon Wireless will serve as the official wireless network provider for Azuga Fleet, providing reliable performance and real time updates to fleet managers from the field in order to further increase efficiencies in the fleet industry through machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies.

"We chose Verizon Wireless to make Azuga Fleet’s technology even more accessible, simpler and reliable for fleet managers to utilize,” said Vice President and General Manager of Azuga Fleet, Ananth Rani. “Azuga will be expanding its roadmap to encompass products related to IoT (‘Internet-of-Things’) 2015 and we look forward to working with Verizon as we develop these and bring them to market.”

READ MORE about this partnership.