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We were excited to be in Austin at the NAFA 2016 Institute & Expo, and are delighted to extend our congratulations to the fleet professionals who were nominated for NAFA’s prestigious Fleet Excellence (FLEXY) awards, honoring the best and the brightest in the industry. The Awards Gala was a stunning event!
And the winners are:
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U.S. employers are collectively spending an extra $5 billion per year on traffic crashes involving employees who did not wear a seat belt while driving or riding as a passenger, whether they were on the job or off.
To help employers improve seat belt usage among employees and, in turn, reduce the human and financial toll of traffic crashes on the workplace, NETS has developed a free online toolkit called 2seconds2click.
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IIHS.org
If Vision Zero is the destination, higher speeds are slowing us down.
A new IIHS study shows that increases in speed limits over two decades have cost 33,000 lives in the U.S. In 2013 alone, the increases resulted in 1,900 additional deaths, essentially canceling out the number of lives saved by frontal airbags that year.
“Although fatality rates fell during the study period, they would have been much lower if not for states’ decisions to raise speed limits,” says Charles Farmer, IIHS vice president for research and statistical services and the author of the study.
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Information Management Session 1: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Information Management Session 2: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Even though many organizations have an information technology (IT) staff to assist fleet managers, there is significant value placed on fleet managers who can understand basic IT issues. With a general knowledge of IT, fleet managers can intelligently interact with their support staff to resolve these issues and enhance IT functionality.
Click here to register now for this valuable educational session
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By Mike Sheldrick
Fleet managers are learning to wrestle with the opportunities — and challenges — of big data produced by telematics, especially when it comes to driver behavior.
And while individual companies can identify risky drivers, and institute programs to improve driver behavior, there has been very little data on driver behavior as a whole,
Now, however, thanks to Fleetmatics, a leading global telematics company, there are some interesting safety data — and analyses — available for service vehicles across the United States. Using its fleet management software, the company gathered data from 177,000 of its customers’ service vehicles, from October 2014 to October 2015.
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The CX of a Great Mobile Experience
By Wendy Eichenbaum
The 3 core benefits necessary for a great mobile experience are immediacy, simplicity, and context. Without all three, your mobile app will feel like a stool with just two legs, wobbly or broken.
A great mobile experience enables users to access only the information they want, when they want it, and in an efficient and intuitive manner. If the solution is more difficult than the problem, users will find some other way, or company, to complete the task.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
A history of GPS examines the costs of relying on it.
In Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds, Greg Milner tells two stories. One’s about how the Global Positioning System became one of the 21st century’s most important technologies. The other’s about how it may be stunting the brains of the ingenious species that created it.
We use GPS today to guide airplanes, ships, and tractors. It keeps tabs on sex offenders and helps find oil deposits. “GPS surveys land, and builds bridges and tunnels,” Milner writes. “GPS knows when the earth deforms; it senses the movement of tectonic plates down to less than a millimeter.” GPS can tell you how long until your Uber arrives—and even let you know if someone nearby is interested in a one-night stand.
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