Driving Change
In Customer Driven this week, Wheels Donlen Senior VP Laura Jozwiak eloquently writes about the myriad changes in our industry causing uncertainty. She says: “ The beautiful concept of change is that you don’t have to do it alone. In fact, I would suggest that you can’t do it alone.”
Ed Pierce, Ted Roberts, and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Wheels Donlen CEO Shlomo Crandus to talk about their platform strategy. We feature a video clip from that interview today and will publish the interview next week.
Ted Roberts and I recently attended RTA Fleet’s Fleet Success Summit and came away with lots of great ideas. Always looking ahead, RTA has now released their Fleet Success Scorecard to help their clients achieve their goals.
Drive Change!
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
Booster Raises $125M+ in Funding to Expand Mobile Fuel Delivery
May 25, 2022 - Booster today announces it has raised more than $125 million in Series D funding led by Rose Park Advisors with participation from new investors Chaac Ventures, Equinor Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation and Thayer Ventures.
“The supply chain powering transportation is overly reliant on costly fixed infrastructure,” said Frank Mycroft, CEO and Founder at Booster. “Given the extraordinary growth of the ‘delivery-of-everything’ economy, customers need reliable solutions that enable them to become more carbon-efficient today without compromising on cost or flexibility."
“Since our founding six years ago, Booster has been singularly focused on reinventing that supply chain with solutions built on data, mobility and the digital-first experience that customers want,” Mycroft added.
Mentor by eDriving Wins Silver Stevie Award
eDrivingSM, a Solera company, has been named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the "Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution" category in The 20th Annual American Business Awards®.
"We're absolutely delighted and incredibly proud to have now won four American Business Awards and four International Business Awards since 2019 for our comprehensive driver risk solution, Mentor by eDriving," said Ed Dubens, Founder/CEO of eDriving. Our ultimate goal is to ensure drivers return home safely to their loved ones at the end of each day and we are now helping more than one million at work drivers in 125 countries do exactly that!"
Ford Pro Leading Fleets into Electrified Future
Uncharted territory means dealing with unknowns, as commercial customers are learning to move their fleets toward battery electric vehicles. Ford Pro™ is helping manage the anxieties this kind of uncertainty brings by helping to make the transition to an electric future easy, bundling vehicles with charging solutions and telematics software to offer a one-stop shop for businesses to accelerate productivity.
A Ford Pro survey* of U.S. fleet purchasing decision makers reveals nearly three-quarters of these commercial customers from small businesses to large fleets feel pressure to adopt electric vehicles, while more than 60% considering electric vehicles planning to adopt the technology within two years.
Wilbur-Ellis, a global distribution leader in sustainable agriculture products and consulting, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California’s leading electricity provider serving northern and central California, are announcing plans to add Ford battery electric trucks and vans, Ford Pro Charging solutions, charging software and Ford Pro E-Telematics† to their fleets.
How Tulsa’s City Fleet Navigated a Ransomware Attack
May 19, 2022 - The City of Tulsa had received a message on its server that said, “We have compromised your server, contact us on the dark web at this address so we can negotiate terms for you to pay a ransom.” The message linked to images that showed hackers had access to their data.
It took three weeks for FBI officials, Microsoft teams and internal IT professionals to identify the hackers and months to fix the problems they caused. Fleet Maintenance Manager Mike Wallace’s team shifted to a paper-based system in the meantime.
Most fleets have a disaster recovery plan for floods, tornadoes, other natural disasters, and now even for pandemics. But most still lack data recovery plans, he adds. “I wouldn't want any other fleet to go through this. It was an interesting couple of months,” Wallace concludes. “Put things in place to be ready for it.”
