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eDriving was honored on December 13, 2016 with UK’s prestigious Prince Michael International Safety Award.
The award was a tribute to the work of the late Dr. Will Murray, e-Driving Research Director, who passed away, suddenly, just weeks before the award ceremony.
At the presentation for the award category, Safer Road Users, 2016, it was said, “Sustaining road safety, through innovative risk-led processes, has been at the heart of eDriving approach for 20 years.”
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Reuters
Germany Fish distributor Deutsche See is suing Volkswagen for misrepresenting a fleet of vehicles it leased as environmentally friendly, becoming the first major German customer to sue Europe’s biggest carmaker over its diesel-test cheating.
Volkswagen already faces numerous lawsuits from individual owners, regulators, states and dealers, many of them in the form of class-action cases in the United States. This is the first case brought by a corporate customer in its home market.
Bremerhaven-based Deutsche See, which leases about 500 vehicles from Volkswagen, said it had been unable to reach an out-of-court settlement.
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Douglas Weichman, CAFM, has been named the new fleet management director for the city of Gainesville, Florida.
Previously, Weichman was director of the Palm Beach County, Florida Fleet Management Division.
Weichman served as NAFA’s President from 2011 to 2013 and as Immediate Past President from 2013 to the present. He is the 2013 recipient of NAFA’s Fleet Excellence Award (FLEXY) – Member of the Year.
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Element Fleet Management today announced two additions to its Southeast Region Commercial Team.
Brian Jacob joins Element as VP of the Customer Success Team. He’ll manage the mid-market portfolio of accounts in the region with a focus on revenue growth and retention.
Kelley Finke joins as VP, Sales. Finke previously spent 14 years with GE Fleet (acquired by Element in 2015), where she was responsible for mid-market and national account sales and customer retention.
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Tackling Fuel-Related Fraud
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By Henry Miller
Tackling fuel-related fraud remains a serious matter for U.S. fleet managers, but it’s also a large priority for fuel providers like Shell.
Thanks to independent research from Shell, we now know that over half of U.S. fleet managers consider fuel-related fraud a major issue for their business. But it’s not only managers who see fuel-related fraud as a cause for concern—nearly half of their fleet drivers agree.
The Shell Fleet Navigator™ Card offers improved fleet management and insight, while increasing savings. And it’s all thanks to unprecedented control and customization over the information you receive. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to help your fleet drive smarter and improve your bottom line along the way.
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To learn more about how Shell Fleet Navigator puts you in control of savings and security, call 888-212-8916 or visit www.shell.us/fleetnavigator for more information.
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If conferences and trade shows are strictly a marketing function, the true value of the events will never be satisfactory
By Ed Pierce, Fleet Industry Marketer
With the fleet-related conference season getting underway again, this is a good time to ask the question: “Why do so many companies consider trade shows and conferences as marketing events?” As a marketing professional, I love nothing more than to have a strong presence at a show – the largest booth, located by the front door, with some phantasmagoric draw that has plenty of stopping power. Giveaways, drawings, coffee…whatever it takes to have a large crowd in the booth.
Of course, we will have sales reps assigned to the booth to say hello, catch up with other vendors, network with allied company reps. If we’re really good, there will be a ton of leads, too.
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Changing Attitudes and Behaviors
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By Janice Sutton
eDriving’s mission is to attack the “94%” problem — 94% of collisions are caused by driver attitudes and behaviors.
In our interview with her, Celia says, “It is not about a lack of knowledge — people don’t text and drive because they don’t know that it is dangerous to do; they do it because they lose the willpower to ignore a message that comes in or because they are late getting to their appointment, for instance. So, we are very focused on interrupting the behavior that makes someone susceptible to that message, or to speeding or to tailgating.
“One of the tools that we have introduced to help chip away at the 94% problem, is our SMART Driving Guide. We have boiled down the critical driving behaviors into 15 principles which are easy to “get” and keep in mind. If every driver keeps these 15 principles in mind they’ll virtually eliminate the risk of being in a collision.”
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