Tire Data I Wish I’d Had as a Fleet Manager
If I had more data on tires, collected several times a day, I may have been able to improve my preventive maintenance program even more. That technology exists now.
A former public fleet manager turned private sector solutions provider discusses new, high-tech solutions available for the public fleet industry that can transform how fleets do business and deliver critical services.
If I had more data on tires, collected several times a day, I may have been able to improve my preventive maintenance program even more. That technology exists now.
For fleets facing a technician shortage, a temporary technician at your shop can help reduce vehicle downtime and costs.
Electric scooters and bikes are starting to show up everywhere. How do you see them affecting your fleet operation?
If time is money, what is saving a few hours of your technicians' time worth?
Can vehicle collisions be avoided with vehicle-to-infrastructure or vehicle-to-vehicle technology? Several of the major OEMs think so and are spending billions of dollars a year working on the technology.
WheelRight allows vehicles to drive through a specialized lane and captures tire pressure readings on all four tires while also providing tire tread depth within a few seconds and printed receipt.
Slack brings all of your communication together in a way that you can sort. Conversations, PDFs, and documents are all be archived and searchable.
Booster Fuels brings the gas station to your vehicles for the same price as a gas station. Its team members will fill up vehicles overnight or at a requested time and bill weekly. This could be a solution for fleets with old, expensive fueling infrastructure.
Think the return on investment for electric vehicles (EVs) is too long? Vehicle-to-grid technology allows EVs to earn money while parked by utilizing their large batteries to provide energy storage services for buildings, utilities, and the grid. This extra money can reduce the total cost of ownership of EVs.
As I am sure everyone has seen in the last several months, perception versus facts (even alternative facts) have been all around us. Unfortunately, it seems fact’s stock has taken a hit and perception, as a mechanism for making decisions, has gone up.
Goals don’t need to happen next month or right now. I recommend they don’t. In fleet management, things rarely happen overnight. So creating that list of goals might help you keep your eye on the prize.
Being prepared just might make a difference when you are in that right place at the right time.
Looking for what lies beneath the surface can help you understand why or help you be equipped to answer some questions — or better yet, proactively address questions that people are thinking but haven’t asked yet.
I would argue we have all faced this at some point in our careers: We get stuck, and the underlying problem is that we take the same approach and expect different results.
We are the driver of our accomplishments but it would be silly to not simultaneously think of the people who have helped us achieve our successes.
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