Bringing it home for the final mile
ASAP Movers is relying on its household goods moving expertise to help supplement the growing last-mile home delivery market. By many indications, the rapid growth in e-commerce and the resulting…
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Cleaning truck cabs in the age of COVID
From bleach to bi-polar ionization, there isn’t one best solution to cleaning truck cabs and combatting COVID-19. But there are good practices fleets can use to keep drivers and other…
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Top 10 states for rude driving
According to citation data on selfish driving behavior, such as failing to yield and tailgating, Insurify compiled a list of the 10 states with the rudest drivers. Virginia, it appears,…
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Managing Fleet Pain Points: Fleet Reader Sound Off
Automotive Fleet views itself as a facilitator to provide a platform for different voices from the industry to sound-off on today’s challenges. This regular column is designed to encourage discourse for…
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Severe Skilled Technician Shortage Triggering Higher Shop Labor Rates
Photo by Morrison1977 via Gettyimages.com Employees with advanced technical skills have become highly sought after as more experienced technicians retire and fewer young adults enter the automotive maintenance and repair industry.…
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COVID-19 Offers Opportunity to Make a Dent in the Technician Shortage
Photo Credit: shironosov As of April 2, 2020, a record 9.9 million people applied for unemployment insurance in two weeks, many of them laid off from companies experiencing business slowdowns…
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How to Update Your Fleet Maintenance Operations for BEVs
Photo: Unsplash/Markus Spiske Here are some baseline areas to update in your maintenance protocols so you can integrate battery electric vehicles. Integrating battery electric vehicles (BEVs) into fleets comes with a…
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More Vocational Fleets Adopt Lightweighting Strategy
Photo: Reading Truck Body A growing trend in second-stage manufacturing is light-weighting, which involves specifying lighter-weight materials to achieve an overall weight reduction to an upfitted vehicle. The increased use…
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How to Put Ad Dollars to Work Using AI
Image: Bobit Business Media file Dealers now can dial in digital ads, presenting the right car to the right customer on whichever channel is the most profitable. The global pandemic…
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History of the First Truck: 1896
Photo: Daimler Trucks The first truck in the world was designed by Gottlieb Daimler in 1896. One of the greatest talents of inventor and German engineer Gottlieb Daimler was finding…
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