{"id":8869,"date":"2020-12-18T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2020-12-18T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:47:16","slug":"dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/18\/dickinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinson Grows Medium-Duty Electric Fleet with Xos Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dickinson Fleet Services has purchased five medium-duty, zero-emission, fully electric service trucks from electric vehicle manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worktruckonline.com\/10123925\/xos-trucks-raises-20-million-partners-with-tier-1-supplier-hires-c-suite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xos Trucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the purchase order, the Los Angeles-based truck company will build and deliver five medium-duty vehicles that DFS will dedicate to servicing electric-vehicle fleets as well as traditional diesel fleets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are very excited to be working with Xos on electrifying our fleet of service vehicles,&#8221; said Ted Coltrain and Mike Dickinson, executive officers of DFS, in a joint statement. &#8220;The industry landscape is rapidly changing, and we strive to be on the front end of these changes. This initial order is a big step for us and the maintenance industry as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dickinson provides mobile on-site maintenance and repair services for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks and trailers. They have more than 750 mobile units operating nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs former fleet owners ourselves, we\u2019ve long admired Dickinson\u2019s fleet maintenance program and are thrilled to be building their very first electric vehicles,\u201d said Xos Trucks co-founder and CEO Dakota Semler.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img class=\"wrapImageCMS aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fleetimages.bobitstudios.com\/upload\/work-truck-online\/content\/news\/2020-12\/20201208-dickinson-xos-trucks-__-720x516-s.jpg\" alt=\"Dickinson provides mobile on-site maintenance and repair services for light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks and trailers. They have more than 750 mobile units operating nationwide. - Screen Capture: YouTube\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption-description\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dickinson provides mobile on-site maintenance and repair services for light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks and trailers. They have more than 750 mobile units operating nationwide. Screen Capture: YouTube<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xos has supplied electric vehicles for numerous companies including UPS and Loomis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWorking with Dickinson and learning about the unique challenges in the fleet maintenance space has been inspiring,&#8221; said Xos Trucks co-founder and COO Giordano Sordoni. &#8220;As more and more fleets make the switch from diesel to electric, there will be a shift in the way fleets think about maintenance and uptime. Dickinson is way ahead of the curve on this and we\u2019re honored to be working with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"p-16-gray\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worktruckonline.com\/authors\/324937\/staff\">WT Staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"posted-by\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worktruckonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.worktruckonline.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CUT COTS OF THE FLEET WITH OUR AUDIT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5377\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson Fleet Services has purchased five medium-duty, zero-emission, fully electric service trucks from electric vehicle manufacturer Xos Trucks. Under the purchase order, the Los Angeles-based truck company will build and deliver five medium-duty vehicles that DFS will dedicate to servicing electric-vehicle fleets as well as traditional diesel fleets. \u201cWe are very excited to be working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869"}],"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=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}