San Francisco Considers Car Sharing to Replace Fleet Vehicles

A San Francisco city supervisor has proposed car sharing for city workers as a cost-savings measure and way to replace underutilized fleet vehicles.

Under the proposal, which was introduced last week, passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks in the city’s fleet would be replaced over the next 13 years and replaced with contracts with private car-sharing companies such as Zipcar or City CarShare. The proposal would not apply to fire trucks, police cars, Department of Public Works maintenance vehicles or other specialized equipment.

Azuga Fleet Launches the Industry’s First-Ever Gamification and Rewards Platform

Recently-launched Azuga Fleet Mobile is the first-of-its-kind gamification and driver rewards program. This new interactive application, available on iOS and Android, gives drivers the ability to track driver scores and compete to earn rewards from top brands such as Amazon, Walmart and Burger King. The solution is designed to create a transparent and real-time application for the driver and their fleet manager -- wherein the driver will be able to track performance throughout the day and the fleet manager will then have capability to give rewards for improved driving behaviors, which ultimately will increase safety, decrease costs and increase driver retention.

Monitor Personal Use of Your Work Trucks with GPS Tracking

If your drivers take home company vehicles, do you monitor their personal use during non-working hours? If not, it could be costing your business serious money. Utilizing a GPS tracking solution, like GPS Insight, to track how drivers are using company vehicles when they are not on the clock will prevent increased operational costs, fuel consumption, and other expenses for your fleet.

Do Self-Driving Cars Spell Doom for Auto Insurers?

The self-driving car seems like a terrible driver’s dream: no steering wheel to control, no trouble parallel parking, no concerns about having a couple of beers on the way home from work. But the removal of fallible human drivers might create havoc for auto insurers.

Human error accounts for 90 percent of road accidents, according to the International Organization for Road Accident Prevention, and our collective failure rate helps the auto insurance industry rake in a cool $157 billion in premiums each year. So if self-driving cars eliminate all those driver mistakes, the business of insuring vehicles will necessarily change as well.

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Budweiser Puts Its Diesel Trucks Out To Pasture

Anheuser-Busch’s goal is to reduce emissions and fuel costs, while doing something green(ish) and has announced that it is going to replace all 66 of the heavy duty trucks at its Houston brewery, with 66 new trucks, that instead run on compressed natural gas.

The trucks in its existing fleet are not old or falling apart - they are tough, reliable diesel-powered workhorses that pull 53-foot trailers loaded with 50,000 pounds of beer. Each truck rolls virtually around the clock — putting in an average of 140,000 miles in a single year hauling beer to wholesalers. They move seventeen million barrels of beer each year.