Keep Truck Replacement Schedules Flexible
Truck fleets often see the need to add or remove vehicles due to seasonal operating parameters, business growth cycles, or unexpected events. A savvy fleet manager understands it’s important to…
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Merchants Fleet Defines Scenarios for Sharing Fleet Vehicles
Merchants Fleet CampusShare college clients use passenger vans such as the Ford Transit. We’re sharing everything these days, from movies and living spaces to parking spaces and dog sitters. Sharing…
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Leading Culture Change Around Safety
Just like any other company program, a fleet safety program requires buy-in and cultural support in order to be effective. Many companies have policies on the books, but often there is a…
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4 Key Challenges to Managing the Expansion of Fleet Data
The amount of fleet data created continues to expand at a dramatic pace. Vehicles, phones, apps, cameras, and telematics devices, along with fleet transactions along the vehicle lifecycle like new…
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When to Restrict Personal Use of Fleet Vehicles
Business Fleet’s sister publication, Automotive Fleet surveys commercial fleet managers each year on personal use charges and policies. In this year’s survey, fewer respondents were lenient on the idea of granting anyone other than the employee the ability…
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Weighing the Value of Mobile Maintenance: Hard Costs vs. Soft Costs
Vocational vehicles are in the business of delivering goods and providing services. They are earning assets and to maximize their productivity, you need to minimize unscheduled downtime or offset downtime…
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Containing Fuel Spend Is a Top Fleet Focus Despite Price Stability
Fleet costs are generally divided into two categories — operating (or running) costs and fixed (or standing) costs. Depreciation is a fleet’s largest fixed cost and its largest overall expense…
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How to Choose a GPS Fleet Tracking System [6 Questions to Ask]
Operating a fleet comes with a constant stream of data that needs to be captured, organized, and analyzed. From fuel efficiency to driver behaviors, your vehicles have the ability to…
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Is Fleet Management Telematics Worth the Cost?
There is no such thing as too much information when it comes to managing a fleet. While traditional approaches to information management can make it difficult to collect, store, and…
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Fleet Vehicle Replacement Strategy
For some companies, their vehicle replacement strategy is to simply wait until a vehicle goes out of commission to replace it. When leasing a fleet, however, this anti-strategy can hurt…
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