NationaLease held its 2017 Sales Meeting in San Diego at the Loew’s Coronado Bay on November 13-14. Jane Clark, Vice President of Member Services for NationaLease welcomed the attendees and thanked this year’s planning committee: Ray Swesey, Brown NationaLease; Pat Herron, DeCarolis Truck Rental, Inc., a NationaLease Member; Paul Brown, […]
The tactical applications for telematics are fairly obvious. But the data is giving you a lot more than simply location information and driver behavior. There can be little question that companies benefit from the data retrieved by their telematics. In her recent IdeaXchange blog, Jane Clark, VP of Member Services […]
My July travels started in Nashville for the NationaLease Human Resources Summit. This year’s meeting was at the Gaylord Opryland. If you’ve never been there, it’s almost hard to explain how large the hotel is. There are huge “outdoor spaces” including a river, a waterfall, and a tropical garden that […]
NationaLease held the 2017 NationaLease Canadian Leadership Summit on November 7-9 at the Delta Halifax in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The event started with a Welcome Reception at a popular local pub, the Lower Deck. The meeting began on Wednesday morning with a welcome from this year’s meeting chair, Peter Macgillivray […]
We constantly hear how autonomous vehicles will reduce the amount of accidents on the road. For the most part, that may be true, especially if all vehicles on the road are autonomous. Problem is…they’re not. Machines seem to be replacing those of us who are living, breathing, sentient beings in […]
Maintenance and repair costs as a percentage of a fleet’s total average marginal cost has increased by approximately 40 percent since 2008. That’s a significant rise. The American Transportation Research Institute released their report on the operational costs of trucking which found that maintenance and repair costs increased yet again […]
The ELD exemption for short-term rentals didn’t go as far as the industry wanted, but it was a step in the right direction. We are quickly approaching the “drop-dead” date of December 18 for fleets to become ELD-compliant, yet a survey published yesterday on HDT shows that nearly half of […]
A technology that was primarily used to record the use of cryptocurrency is now being seen as a way to inject trust into a wide range of uses. In an age where trust is in short supply and where data breaches seem to be occurring on a frighteningly regular basis, […]
With changes taking place in technology and regulations for trucks and the trucking industry, keeping up with your maintenance practices can be daunting. Whatever your core business may be, transporting your product to its destination is essential for your business’s success. But maintaining a fleet can be quite costly in […]