The COVID-19 pandemic divided the fleet market into essential and non-essential businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of company vehicles to sit idle from mid-March to mid-May. The economic shutdown caused miles-driven to plummet.
One trend that is gaining momentum among commercial fleets during the pandemic is the use of mobile maintenance vendors. There has been a substantial uptick in fleet requests for mobile maintenance solutions as fleet managers look to minimize downtime and the administrative burden of taking their vehicle to a repair shop and having the driver wait.
Yogi Shivdasani was honored with the Fleet Executive of the Year award at the 2020 AFLA NextGen Conference for implementing data and scalable processes to make his fleet run more efficiently.
Three fleets weigh in on how this digital asset can help operations run smoother.
Last-mile operations place special demands on the tires used on light- and medium-duty delivery vehicles.
Whether you think they are a necessary evil or run a brokerage business yourself, there’s little doubt that freight brokers and third-party logistics providers are an integral part of the transportation and logistics industry.
Fleet adoption of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles means more than just acquiring the trucks. It also means having places to charge those trucks — and it’s not as simple as plugging a Nissan Leaf into a port in your garage or a parking space at Whole Foods.
Remarketing professionals at several leading FMCs are observing a strong truck market in the wholesale market, a continued shift of fleet portfolios moving toward more crossovers/SUVs, and an increase in digital auction activity.