Key Characteristics of Valuable Fleet Technology
Valuable fleet technology is easy to use, and provides data you need. It can help you see where your money is going, and tell you whether or not your fleet is right-sized and which team members are making better decisions.
Alerts for Dangerous Conditions, Including Unsafe Parking
Omnitracs offers solutions that can improve the overall safety of your fleet - including alerts in moments of unsafe parking and times when speeds are inappropriate for current weather conditions.
6 Ways to Get the Best Range From Your Electric Car in Winter
Operating range is one of the most important performance metrics of your electric car, and it can be impacted by cold weather. It’s harder for ions in Lithium-ion batteries to move around in the cold, and that can affect your car’s range.
Cold weather also affects charging, and your car’s battery likes to be within a certain temperature range. If it’s really cold outside, it’s better for the battery to warm up first before it can charge at faster speeds. That means charging can take longer in winter.
Not everyone has a garage, but if you’ve got one, put your EV in it. (And if it’s full of stuff, then clean it out – your car needs it.) Keeping your vehicle inside during winter can make a difference in its battery performance. The warmth of the garage will help your car hold battery charge for longer and charge more quickly.
Read the article at The Car Gossip.
Why do a Fleet Utilization Study?
Ed Smith, President, Agile Fleet
Understanding your fleet's utilization is at the core of fleet right-sizing.
Many fleets undergo fleet utilization studies as a first step towards getting their fleets right-sized and under control.
But how is a fleet study conducted? How often should it be done? How do you articulate the goals of your study? What changes should be made as a result of your study?
We hear these questions and many more on this topic, so here is some guidance you may want to consider.
Post AFLA Conference Reflection: 5 Challenges Facing Fleet
By Tod Trousdell, Fleet Marketing Consultant/Partner, RobertsTrousdell Communications
By many accounts, this year's Automotive Fleet Leasing Association (AFLA) conference in San Antonio was a watershed moment for Fleet.
After 18 months of little to no face- to-face interaction, more than 300 fleet influencers gathered for what turned out to be three fruitful days of robust interactions with customers and colleagues most had not seen since the start of the pandemic.
And while attendance was noticeably lower than recent years, most attendees seemed to be reveling in an equal mix of personal and professional interactions that renewed spirits and deepened fleet's resolve to not only overcome the events of the past two years, but to launch what many feel will be a renaissance for the industry.
With that in mind, here's a look at five continuing challenges facing fleet as it emerges from a successful AFLA conference, and charges into what hopefully will be yet another enlightening and fruitful era for this great industry.
