Fleet Management News Digest from GPS Trackit

…Featuring periodical updates on new fleet vehicles, fuels, and laws, regulations and technology that can impact fleet operations.

2014 Fleet Industry Report Card: Senior Management

Read these perspectives from fleet managers as a sidebar to our 2014 Fleet Industry Report Card about how senior management needs to listen to fleet managers concern about fleet managers reporting to procurement. “Companies are consolidating fleet under procurement, and making procurement employees the ones in charge of fleet. Fleet managers do much more than just….

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How Cloud Technology Can Help Fleets

Before “reaching for the clouds,” fleet managers should understand how this evolving technology can reduce costs and increase productivity. With computers, their related applications, and all of the hardware evolving at an ever-quickening pace, fleet managers need to know what can help and what can hinder. One such technology, cloud computing, allows users to store information and software on a….

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California to Mount Aggressive Bid for Tesla Battery Plant

California lawmakers and the governor’s office said Thursday that they’re making a major effort to lure a Tesla Motors electric-car battery factory to the Golden State. A bipartisan pair of state senators — Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Ted Gaines (R-Rocklin) — are sponsoring “urgency” legislation, expressing….

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