Preventative maintenance and advanced technology play a vital role in keeping fleets operating efficiently and minimizing downtime. Telematics systems provide real-time diagnostics and performance data, giving fleet managers visibility into vehicle health. Maintenance alerts allow managers to schedule service proactively, ensure parts availability, and address small issues before they escalate into costly repairs. This reduces
Read More...Truck fleet management is complex and demanding, regardless of fleet size. Managers must juggle hiring and training drivers, controlling fuel costs, maintaining vehicles, tracking expenses, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The pressure to reduce costs while keeping operations safe and efficient makes the role challenging. However, advances in technology—particularly telematics and GPS tracking—have made fleet management
Read More...Equipping commercial vehicles with cameras isn’t a new concept. Fleets can gain valuable insights from video telematics data, such as identifying risky driving behaviors, developing data-based safety training, and reducing the likelihood of litigation following a collision. However, many fleets limit their camera installations to the forward-facing view. While some video surveillance is better than
Read More...The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced that if you have or use an FMCSA Portal account, you must act now to maintain access. How you log on to the FMCSA Portal is changing to ensure enhanced security and compliance with the Federal Mandate for Multifactor Authentication. For general information on the portal,
Read More...Private fleets have always been the primary customer base for truck leasing companies, and their demand for the service is rising steadily. Leasing providers supply trucks equipped with the latest technology that helps fleets manage the numerous regulatory changes transforming the industry. Leasing vehicles is an appealing solution for private fleets to comply with evolving
Read More...The frequency and severity of fraud grow every year. As our lives and our businesses become increasingly electronic, identity theft and other related issues damage more lives and cause more problems than one can imagine. In the transportation industry, this is now occurring frequently with unauthorized use of USDOT numbers. Highly variable and often increasing
Read More...The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) teamed up with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to submit a proposal back in 2016 that would require fleets to equip all class 7 and 8 commercial vehicles with speed limitation devices. The proposal met immediate backlash from the trucking community and languished in Congress for
Read More...Vehicles are increasing in complexity as technology rapidly advances. Connected vehicles store and send out information, but the security for high-tech commercial trucks isn’t nearly as robust as the protections for the office. Companies know they need cybersecurity for things like company laptops or computers, but most people outside of maintenance engineers don’t understand how
Read More...Law enforcement and insurance providers alike have noted a sharp rise in common powertrain controller (CPC) thefts over the past year. These modules act as the commercial vehicles’ brains, and the trucks are unusable without them. The thefts have occurred in truck yards, repair shops, and even parking lots for commercial vehicles. The ongoing microchip
Read More...Distracted driving affects all drivers, whether driving a commercial or passenger vehicle. Fleets can’t control other drivers on the road, but they do have influence over their employees. Advanced technology and telematics data can give fleet managers insight on how drivers behave behind the wheel and help to identify trends. They can use the information
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