Entries are now open for the sixth annual Australasian Fleet Champions Awards (previously known as the Fleet Safety Awards). Brake, the road safety charity organises the awards through its Global Fleet Champions initiative and is inviting entries from fleet operators and suppliers working to reduce the number of road crashes involving at-work drivers. The deadline […] Read more
A new route planning technology to help optimise deliveries and meet unprecedented customer demand is now available to SMEs in Australia for free for a limited time, thanks to HERE, a global leader in location intelligence. HERE WeGo Deliver enables businesses with a small fleet to operate their own efficient delivery service. By applying complex […] Read more
– Article/Photos by Rod Fuller – CR-V, has been with us for 25 years, but what’s with its name? Is it just a collection of letters? Or, do they mean something? The name quite simply describes what it is, a “Comfortable Runabout-Vehicle” as Honda announced in 1995 when the car was first launched. And there […] Read more
– By Caroline Falls – In Europe at the start of 2020, the biggest buzz word in fleet circles was mobility. “Transformation from Fleet to Mobility Management,” was the title of the keynote address at an international fleet meeting scheduled to take place at the Geneva International Motor Show. The show was cancelled due to […] Read more
This article was originally published on Fleet News. A test of 20 in-car infotainment systems has found BMW’s latest Live Cockpit Professional system to be the easiest to use. What Car performed six tasks that drivers frequently do while on the move, including changing the temperature, zooming out on a set sat-nav route and changing […] Read more
Smartrak, an industry-leading provider of mobility, fleet management, and telematics solutions, announced in April that its PoolCar booking system has been granted a Class Ruling for the use of Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) reporting. In the ruling, the Australian Tax Office observed that PoolCar’s logbook feature satisfies the definition of “logbook records” for the purpose […] Read more
Prior to the GFC no one wanted a small car in their fleet. Fleet Managers were battling HR and unions to get drivers out of Commodores or Falcons and into smaller cars to reduce their operating costs. Driveway credibility in the suburbs was influencing the battle because Australians considered the vehicle to be part of […] Read more
– By Caroline Falls – It was after midnight and Scott Conlon was alone in his office on the east coast of the United States. He was there to take a video call and keep his commitment as the keynote speaker for the IPWEA Fleet conference in Brisbane in mid March. Conlon is a senior […] Read more
Since the RAV4 hybrid was launched it has been in demand and delivery times have stretched out to many months which has frustrated fleet customers. Just before Anzac Day, Toyota announced that is had secured additional supply from the factory in Japan for the RAV4 hybrid with the increased volume arriving in the second half […] Read more
– Article/Photos by Rod Fuller – Today, with so much to do with so little time, it’s good to have somethings that can be relied on, to just do what they’re meant to. Quickly, quietly and civilly, without fuss, time and again every-day. And that’s exactly what I got from the Honda Civic sedan. The […] Read more
Caroline First let’s talk about the trial of the autonomous vehicles you are running in Ipswich. I heard you say that today, 16 March, was the launch of a public trial involving the vehicle. Can you tell us about that — the vehicle, the technology, the public trial? Dennis We developed a Renault vehicle to […] Read more
– By Marc Sibbald – It’s a nightmare for Fleet Managers – how much is a vehicle worth when there’s no one willing to buy it? That’s the current situation at auction venues as reported by Brendon Green, General Manager Motor Vehicles at Pickles Auctions via LinkedIn. Over the last few years the quarterly reports […] Read more
