{"id":11482,"date":"2021-06-14T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2021-06-14T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T10:06:13","slug":"fleet-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2021\/06\/14\/fleet-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleet Best Practices: Fleet Readers Sound Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Automotive Fleet\u00a0<\/em>views itself as a facilitator to provide a platform for different voices from the industry to sound-off on today\u2019s challenges. This regular column is designed to encourage discourse for fleet professionals to let their voices be heard to their peers and other industry professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what is top of mind for fleet professionals today:<\/span><\/p>\n

Avoid Dual Wheel Vehicles<\/span><\/h2>\n

Good job on the Market Trends blog \u201cMore Vocational Fleets Adopt Lightweighting Strategy.\u201d Another point on reducing the weight of the truck is to avoid dual wheels. With singles on the rear, the turning radius is far less. This point was made to me by an electric utility line worker who needs to carry a lot of gear, yet move in\/out of tight places. There are many innovations in materials and processing, and the costs are coming down every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Halonen,\u00a0President for\u00a0Mayflower Consulting, LLC<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lightweighting Strategy<\/span><\/h2>\n

Great article about how more vocational fleets are adopting vehicle lightweighting strategies, I have been using lightweight bodies on our utility vehicles for about five years now. We changed over to aluminum bodies for all of our F-350s through F-650s since 2016. This cut the curb weight of our F-650s by 3,000 pounds, our Transit 350 cutaways by over 1,000 pounds. I would like to add that we have not had one single problem with the body strength holding up under the load that we are carrying on a daily basis. We had 350 cutaways with a GVW of 9,600 pounds driving around at around 10K to 11K. When I changed them out to the Transit cutaway GVW 9,900 pounds with the Reading aluminum body, we cut the weight down to under 9,400 pounds fully loaded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Ottogalli,\u00a0Transportation Manager for\u00a0Suez North America<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Driver Engagement Focus<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Market Trends blog entitled \u201cDriver Engagement & Cross Department Collaboration\u201d is one of the best and most comprehensive articles I have read on the topic. It literally covers all the points I look for during scorecard implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ward Warkentin,\u00a0CEO for\u00a0Fleetmetrica<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Personal Use Consequences<\/span><\/h2>\n

Good article on \u201cThe Negative Consequences of Personal Use.\u201d We run into this a lot in insurance loss control. We once had a motorist call-in that had witnessed one of our company service trucks driving around with kids in the truck bed. The service employee had used the vehicle for personal conveyance home the night before as his next day job was in the same direction. He faced a dilemma the next morning when his wife who was running late for work informed him he would have to drop the kids off at school\/day care. Thanks to the Safety First (1-800 How’s My Driving) motorist call in and the risk was mitigated. Unfortunately, that was a major violation and the employee had to be terminated. A related issue is company use of personal autos. How do we control vehicle maintenance? Are we named as additional insured? Are we properly qualifying the driver?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Flaten,\u00a0VP Field Operations for Thorn Valley Safety<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An Everyday Conversation<\/span><\/h2>\n

Great article on \u201cThe Overt (and Hidden) Cost of Vehicle Abuse\u201d\u00a0 Unfortunately, I have conversations about this with fleet managers every day…<\/span><\/p>\n

David Pope,\u00a0Senior Government Sales Manager for\u00a0GPS Insight<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaks Volumes<\/span><\/h2>\n

I found the Market Trends blog on \u201cThe Overt (and Hidden) Cost of Vehicle Abuse\u201d to be highly relevant that speaks volumes about driver attitude. Thanks for sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Warenzak,\u00a0Safety and Compliance Manager for\u00a0Trutech Wildlife Service<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Signs of Vehicle Abuse<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Market Trends blog entitled, \u201cThe Overt (and Hidden) Cost of Vehicle Abuse\u201d\u00a0 was a good article.\u00a0 As a fleet manager, it is hard to see this type of abuse, but you can see the signs. When one driver can make a set of tires last for 50K miles versus a driver who has to have tires every 20K-30K miles on the same exact vehicle. The same with brakes. You need to do your best to make managers aware when you see these situations and signs of abuse. Abuse really comes to light when a vehicle has been in an accident. The pictures of the interiors are always telling of who is taking care their vehicle and who is not. Like mom always used to say, \u201cmake sure everything is clean in case you\u2019re in an accident, even your undergarments!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex May,\u00a0Fleet Consultant<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A Compelling Blueprint<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Market Trends blog entitled \u201cDriver Engagement \u00a0& Cross-Department Collaboration\u201d provides a compelling blueprint for driver engagement and systematically builds a fleet culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ron Zima,\u00a0CEO for\u00a0GoGreen Communications<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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by Mike Antich<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.automotive-fleet.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CUT COTS OF THE FLEET WITH OUR AUDIT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

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The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet. We propose the following fleet management audit.<\/p>\n

FLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Automotive Fleet\u00a0views itself as a facilitator to provide a platform for different voices from the industry to sound-off on today\u2019s challenges. This regular column is designed to encourage discourse for fleet professionals to let their voices be heard to their peers and other industry professionals. Here is what is top of mind for fleet professionals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11484,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}