Road Safety Laws Need to Strengthen in States, Group Says
Nearly a decade of declining road deaths has created complacency among state lawmakers, whose failure to enact stronger highway-safety laws leaves motorists at peril now that traffic fatalities are rising again, according to Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. In December, NHTSA released preliminary data showing that road deaths in the first nine months of […]
Study Looks at Why US Traffic Casualty Rate Higher than Europe
A University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute study compared road safety and related factors in the US with those in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, to identify actions most likely to produce casualty reductions in the US. The main differences concerned structural and cultural factors (such as vehicle distance driven), and procedural factors […]
EPA Selects FleetCommander to Automate Logistics of Managing Fleet
The Environmental Protection Agency has selected FleetCommander fleet and motor pool software to automate the day-to-day logistics of managing their fleet of vehicles at their Region 7 location. EPA Region 7’s fleet serves the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, as well as nine Tribal nations. The announcement was made by FleetCommander fleet and motor […]
GreenRoad Names Winners of First Annual Fleet Elite Awards
GreenRoad™ announced the recipients of the first annual Fleet Elite™ awards, recognizing the best fleet drivers on the road. Fleet Elite status is awarded to GreenRoad drivers who maintain a GreenRoad Safety Score of 5 or less for the full 2012 calendar year, and log over 500 GreenRoad driving hours. In 2012, less than 5% […]
Nissan Moves Leaf to Smyrna, Tenn. and Drops Sticker Price
Nissan is dropping the price of its 2013 Leaf to $28,800 for the newly-added S grade, which can be purchased for as low as $18,800 with the $7,500 tax credit and rebates in various states. It also coincides with Nissan moving production of the Leaf to its Tennessee plant along with US production of the electric vehicle’s lithium ion batteries. Nissan says that the price reductions make it the lowest priced five-passenger electric vehicle sold in the US....
