Fleet Management: Features
A happy new year
I strongly suspect you're tired of reading about the economy. I know I'm tired of writing about it. For the last three years, though, it's been the unavoidable...
2011 Fleets of the Year
Turn the page and join us in applauding this year’s three winners of the Fleet Owner Fleet of the Year Awards—one each from the for-hire, private and vocational segments of trucking....
Is FMCSA listening?
After recently attending the hours-of-service listening session hosted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in Crystal City, VA, I was told a quick anecdote by a TCA member...
Smart phones, smart fleets
There are more than 800,000 handheld communication devices in service already in the trucking industry...
Establishing a cell phone policy
Every company needs to have its own policy for managing distracted driving, says Christian Schenk, vice president-product marketing for Xata Turnpike...
Higher standards
A small grocery store named Meijer opened for business in little-known Greenville, MI, in 1934. From this Depression-era beginning, Meijer launched the first 30 years later offering a complete one-stop shopping experience from groceries, health and beauty care, fashion, automotive, home dcor, pharmacy, electronics, pets and more...
A $326-billion question
Even in this age when we measure the Federal deficit in trillions of dollars, the difference between $556 billion and $230 billion is a lot of money...
Dad is on Facebook!
It created chaos for my entire family. As the news spread, their phones and BlackBerrys sounded like Vegas slot machines...
The worst is over
Congratulations 2009 is over and you're still here. The consensus among economists and other economic analysts is that the recession is over...
DOE pitches in
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) is spreading $187 million in grants around the truck manufacturing industry to significantly improve fuel efficiency for heavy- and light-duty trucks, all while maintaining current exhaust emissions targets...
Guide aims to cut fuel waste
A new guide from Fuelman addresses an issue that many fleet managers either ignore, or may not even be aware of: waste within the fuel budget...
Here we go again
Just when it seems like the reported economic recovery and relatively stable fuel prices would provide some much-needed relief for the trucking industry, most of the major tire and retread manufacturers have announced another round of price increases to offset the rising costs of raw materials and energy...
Springing into action
For a company that has literally been gathering water from the ground since 1845, it's only fitting that the private fleet at Poland Spring leaves no stone unturned in its quest to be the greenest truck fleet in Maine...
The trucking spark
Twenty-three years ago, Michael J. Fox had a hit film on his hands with The Secret of My Success, a comical farce in which a wily young man rapidly fakes his way up the corporate ladder right into the executive suite...
