A New Way to Reduce Fleet Risk While Saving Time and Money
By Sterling Pratz, Founder & CEO, Car IQ
To run your fleet effectively and efficiently, you need data. You need to know what each vehicle is doing, what it’s costing you, what issues may pop up and more.
Car IQ reimagines every facet of fleet payments and accounting. By tying expenses directly to each vehicle using unique IDs, you can now capture vehicle data and daily spend; manage merchants and set spending controls; view receipts instantly; and issue immediate payment credentials for each vehicle.
Leading with the Carrot: How Brightmile Rewards Safe Driving Behavior
By Fleet Management Weekly Staff
As a leader in technologically advanced business driver safety and sustainability, Brightmile uses a smartphone-based app to gamify and reward safer driving.
By engaging drivers and empowering managers with their cloud-based app, they’ve reduced collisions by up to 75% while reducing fuel consumption and carbon footprint by up to 15%.
"The fleet benefits focus mainly on driver safety and behavior, aiming to reduce collision frequency first and foremost. Brightmile is an application the driver can download onto their smartphone... the app uses the sensors in the smartphone to understand the driver’s behavior, which we then use to engage the drivers to try to improve their performance."
Can You Get a DUI for Sleeping in Your Car?
No one wants a driving under the influence (DUI) or driving while intoxicated (DWI) charge. However, drivers continue to earn themselves DUI charges from foolishly consuming alcohol and hitting the road.
Still, you might get into the same trouble for “sleeping it off” in your car that you might for getting pulled over for driving under the influence.
It might sound silly, but you can get a DUI charge for sleeping in your car. Should you have a blood alcohol content (BAC) over the legal limit, typically 0.08, cops may conclude that you drove your car prior to your decision to sleep.
South Pasadena, CA Launches Nation’s First All-Electric Police Fleet
The South Pasadena Police Department became the nation’s first law enforcement agency to completely replace its gasoline-powered vehicles with nonpolluting electric vehicles.
“We are proud to help South Pasadena adopt an all-electric police fleet that better reflects its objectives and saves costs along the way. This program sets a high standard for other municipalities across the country,” said Enterprise Fleet Management Vice President, Southern California, John Mills.
Ford Thinks Bigger is Not Always Better, Especially for EVs
CEO Jim Farley told investors in an earnings call on Wednesday that when it comes to EVs, bigger is not always better — and said that the company's future would depend on its ability to build smaller, cheaper electric vehicles.
"In ICE [Internal Combustion Engine], a business we've been in for 120 years, the bigger the vehicle, the higher the margin," Farley said. "But it's exactly the opposite for EVs. The larger the vehicle, the bigger the battery, the more pressure on margin because customers will not pay a premium for those larger batteries," he added.
