2024 Work Truck Week Preview: Popular Annual Conference Pulls into Indy
By Tod Trousdell, Fleet Marketing Consultant and Partner/RobertsTrousdell Communications
With perhaps the biggest trade event of the year – Work Truck Week – just days away, many questions swirl around the industry. As a fleet marketing consultant, there are surely a few things I’ll be anxious to learn more about when the NTEA Work Truck Week touches down.
One of the things I am most anxious to see at this year’s show is how the OEMs will present their offerings after seemingly going “all in” on EVs the past few years.
In addition to the legions of fleets and services providers that consider Work Truck Week their biggest show of the year, organizers say many new exhibitors are attending this year’s show.
NYC Improves City Vehicle Fleet Safety With Cameras
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has issued Executive Order (EO) 39, which will address truck and bus safety for the city’s fleet and contracted units.
City contractors will have new safety requirements, including preparing fleet safety plans, increasing driver training, adopting telematics, and adding 360-degree cameras to mitigate the impacts of visual impairments for operators.
The city explained that an estimated 5,600 contracted trucks will be impacted by this executive order. The city also operates nearly 7,500 trucks and 10,000 contracted school buses, meaning the EO will result in safety enhancements for over 23,000 trucks and buses traveling throughout New York City daily.
Driivz Appoints Blake Jessen as New Vice President of North America
Driivz, a Vontier company and part of its EVolve e-mobility portfolio, a leading provider of end-to-end smart EV charging and energy management software, today announced the appointment of Blake Jessen as its new Vice President of North America.
Jessen has over 18 years of experience in the distributed energy, clean-tech and electrification sectors, bringing a wealth of expertise and leadership to Driivz.
Aligned with Driivz’s mission to accelerate the EV industry's dynamic and continuous transformation, Jessen’s deep market knowledge and value-add approach position him to drive innovation and solidify Driivz’s presence in North America’s expanding electrification landscape.
Graph Proves Speeding Won’t Actually Get You There Much Faster
The STEMbite YouTube channel applies science and math theories to everyday situations. Illustrating the inverse relationship between the speed you go and the time it takes you to get somewhere is a bit of a downer.
While it takes 90 seconds to cover one mile at 40 mph, it takes just 60 seconds to cover the same mile at 60 mph. Speeding up from 40 mph to 60 mph will save you 30 seconds for every mile you travel. So, while you’re weaving through traffic and risking a ticket, that 30 mile trip is over a mere 7.5 minutes sooner.
The amount of time you save diminishes as your speed increases. If you really push the needle up from 60 mph to 80 mph, you only save 15 seconds/mile.
Actionable Data: Creating a Holistic View of the Driver
There is data flowing to a fleet manager like an open firehose from many sources and in varying formats.
To make the data actionable a few things need to happen: automation, normalization, and aggregation.
Fleet managers need to consume several different types of data to create a holistic view of the driver and accomplish their driver safety goals.
Data normalization is generally considered the development of clean data. To create the sought-after holistic view of the driver, data needs to be aggregated into one central system or platform.
To learn more about creating and using actionable data, download the free SuperVision e-book 'Using Data to Improve Driver Safety' by clicking here.
