Time, Money and Supply Chains
Prices are going up and delays are increasing, but there are ways that your fleet management company can protect you from some of the inflationary impacts.
An Easily Enforceable Cell Phone Policy
It’s easy to enforce your cell phone policy with the proactive anti distracted driving app from NoCell Technologies.
The First Purpose-Built EV Solutions Company
Inspiration was designed from the ground up to be the world’s first purpose-built EV solutions company, and they have brought together capabilities and skills from previously disparate industries - like putting automotive and fleet with energy and infrastructure.
Feeling Reconnected
The FMW Team has been home from Columbus for nearly a week now, but we are still feeling revived and reenergized from the event. It was great to see so many old fleet friends (and great to make a few new ones, too).
We got a bunch of great new video content in Columbus, including today’s interviews with Wheels Donlen’s Khalid Latif giving pointers on how your FMC can help minimize some of the inflationary impacts of supply chain shortages.
The next video is NoCell’s Corey Woinarowicz (also recorded in Columbus) talking about how his company’s technology can make your fleet safer as you construct an easily enforceable cell phone policy.
Updating Infrastructure
Zohar Systems’ Fred Fakkema pens a timely piece outlining how improvements in infrasture need to be considered in tandem with seeking fixes to the driver shortage and supply chain delays.
Ted Roberts
President
U.S. Gas Prices at the Pump Decline for Two Straight Weeks
April 11, 2022 - Average national gasoline prices dropped to $4.11 a gallon on Sunday, the lowest level since the average hit $4.33 on March 6, according to auto club AAA. The last time a losing streak endured for this long was in September 2020.
Lower fuel costs offer some relief to American consumers who have been grappling with higher prices from food to housing amid decades-high inflation. The Biden administration’s decision at the end of last month to order the largest oil release in history from its reserves, amounting to a million barrels of oil a day for six months, has helped cool prices.
Pump prices could pull back to the $3.50-$4 a gallon range by Memorial Day, said Bob Yawger, director of the futures division at Mizuho Securities. The decline would correlate to West Texas Intermediate crude futures trading in the $85-100 a barrel range, he said.
