Former IIHS-HLDI President Recounts How His Car Protected Him in High-Speed Crash
image: IIHS
April 12, 2022 - After a severe collision last summer, Adrian Lund, the retired president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute in all likelihood owes his life to the improvements he helped usher in.
Lund, who retired from IIHS-HLDI in 2017, credits his car, a 2020 BMW 540i with saving his life. The model, a 2020 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK, earned good ratings in all six crashworthiness tests, including the ones most applicable to Lund’s crash, the small overlap front and roof strength.
He remembers hanging upside down after the crash and noticing that he had room to move his legs. He had just been in a frontal offset collision not all that different from the many tests he had watched in the crash hall at the IIHS Vehicle Research Center. In those tests, the structural intrusion is often worst around the legs.
Congratulations to the 100 Best Fleets of 2022!
One of the most exciting events at last week’s NAFA Institute & Expo was the announcement of NAFA’s 2022 100 Best Fleets in America!
This year's winning organizations showcased outstanding levels of performance, dedication to operations improvement, and much more. This program identifies and encourages the ever-increasing levels of performance improvement and innovation within the public fleet industry.
U.S. Mechanics Are Warning Drivers to Park in Safe and Well-Lit Areas, Here’s Why
Mechanics are sounding the alarm. This pricing situation is prompting some people to steal gas. Thieves are smarter nowadays. They drill into the gas tank!
Replacing a fuel tank costs somewhere between $1,260 and $1,410 without taxes and fees, so it’s understandable why auto mechanics want you to park carefully overnight. Given the supply chain issues almost every industry is facing at the moment, you’d also have to wait for a spare part.
If your area is not well-lit or filled with surveillance cameras, then you should avoid filling up to the brim with fuel.
Market Following More Predictable Patterns, Finding Next Normal
By Bill Bishop, SVP of Sales and Marketing at FLD Remarketing
Four times a year, the team here at FLD compiles what we call our quarterly White Metal Market Report, or WMMR for short.
And like any analyst following basically any industry on the planet, trying to get a beat on the medium duty white metal market the last two years has been nothing short of an exercise in frustration. Just when it seemed like there might be an opportunity to break from the grips of pandemic induced malaise, a new challenge would rear its ugly head.
RTA Helps Fleets Succeed Through Innovative Software, and Hosts Leading Business and Fleet Experts for the Upcoming ‘Fleet Success Summit’
Pictured: Scott Devore, Steve Saltzgiver, Jeff Jenkins
By Fleet Management Weekly Staff
RTA is a fleet management software company that uniquely designs and delivers software to keep fleet managers in control of fleet performance metrics.
As a long-time fleet industry leader, RTA is particularly proud to be hosting the ‘Fleet Success Summit,’ a fleet-focused, educational summit from April 20-21 in the Phoenix area.
In an interview with Josh Turley, RTA’s CEO, he spoke about the company and also about the summit. He began the conversation by noting that since its founding in 1979, RTA focused on helping fleet managers keep track of maintenance operations.
Today, their innovative software solutions help track their asset life cycles, PM schedules, and more in order to things of that nature, to stay on top of all operational costs.
