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AI is finally moving from a buzzword to solutions providing real value to fleets. But how? In this Fleet Momentum episode, Chris Brown, Bobit associate publisher, discusses with AJ Trivedi, CEO and founder of Ridecell, the AI and automation tools that are coming online to automate vehicle lifecycle management and maximize asset revenues.


Fleet Momentum videos are designed to shine a spotlight on key industry leaders, trends, and products for fleet management.

This episode of Fleet Momentum is sponsored by and created in partnership with Ridecell 🤝

⏱ Topics & Timestamps


What are the top trends and challenges that you're hearing from your fleet customers?
How has the business of fleet changed over the past 10 years?
How do we take AI and automation from buzzwords into actual products and services that will make a difference for fleets?
How can AI-driven automation help manage electric vehicle lifecycles?
How are OEMs changing to adapt to the new market realities?


What does Ridecell offer to fleets to change their fundamental business approach and economics?



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In this Fleet Momentum episode, Chris Brown, Bobit’s associate publisher, discusses key trends in repair management, including cycle times, parts supply, and the labor market with Richard Jacko and Stuart Braun of Fleet Response.

Fleet Momentum videos are designed to shine a spotlight on key industry leaders, trends, and products for fleet management.

This episode of Fleet Momentum is sponsored by and created in partnership with Fleet Response 🤝

⏱ Topics & Timestamps


0:00 Introduction
1:04 Market Outlook for 2024
2:43 Reducing Cycle Time
3:50 Managing Total Loss
5:01 Labor Market
7:25 Part Supplies
8:37 Fallout from UAW Strike

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The State of the Fleet Industry Spotlight video series, produced by Automotive Fleet, offers insights into the state of the fleet market and engages with leaders in fleet on what’s driving the market today.

In episode 145, Chris Brown, associate publisher of Automotive Fleet, connects with Sandor Piszar of  @gmenvolve  about his journey to his new role and how GM Envolve is set up to engage with fleet in 2024.

In May of 2023, General Motors created GM Envolve, a new unit for commercial and fleet customers that creates a "one-stop" experience for vehicle sales and access to GM’s portfolio of commercial products and services across multiple divisions.

Check out the discussion and what this means to the #fleet industry!

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⏱ Topics


Sandor Piszar's background in fleet before joining GM Envolve
Piszar's outreach to fleet clients
GM Envolve accessing personnel and services compare to the old GM Fleet format
How fleets should adjust plans amid battery-plant and EV model delays
GM Envolve's fleet forecast


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Hello and welcome to this edition of State of the Fleet Industry Spotlight Series, sponsored by US Bank, in which we engage with leaders in fleet on what’s driving the market today.

I’m Chris Brown, associate publisher of Automotive Fleet. In this episode, I connect with Debbie Struna, national account manager for Fleet Street Remarketing, former board member of the American Fleet Leasing Association (AFLA), and chairperson for the Women in Fleet Management mentorship task force.

Debbie and I discuss how organizations can best plan for succession in the fleet manager’s role and the resources available for new entrants into the fleet community.

Today's topics include:
- Struna explains how she got into fleet.

- She discusses how new fleet managers can benefit from association involvement and industry events.

- Struna shares how to use internal meetings in the organization to create better awareness of the fleet manager’s role.

- She offers the idea of creating an industrywide document with best practices for succession planning.

- She discusses the succession process when she left her role as a fleet manager to take a new job.

- Struna suggests leveraging the vendor community for knowledge, along with fleet publications and media.

- She explains AFLA’s mentorship program.


This episode is sponsored by ⁠⁠⁠⁠U.S. Bank⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The State of the Fleet Industry video series, produced by Automotive Fleet, offers insights into the state of the fleet market.

In Episode 142, Associate Publisher Chris Brown interviews Brian Fielkow, an executive leader, author, and speaker who has spent three decades in fleet and transportation with a direct focus on safety. Fielkow breaks down preconceived notions on fleet safety and offers a new framework on how to manage it in your organization.

He is delivering the opening keynote at the 2023 Fleet Safety Conference, convening November 8-10 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Today's topics include:

- Safety is not a priority.
- It's not an accident and it’s not minor.
- Move from a blame culture to a just culture.
- We don’t necessarily need more processes.
- Safety is not a department.
- We’re drowning in data.
- Just because you are compliant does not mean you are safe.


This episode is sponsored by ⁠⁠⁠U.S. Bank⁠⁠⁠.



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The ⁠State of the Fleet Industry⁠ video series, produced by Automotive Fleet, offers insights into the state of the fleet market as presented by AF Editor Mike Antich.



In Episode 141, learn more about the top factors contributing to increasing costs in the commercial fleet market, as presented by AF Editor Mike Antich.



🎙Today's topics include:


While cost containment has been a top priority since the birth of the fleet industry, today, it has gained even greater urgency since fleet is more expensive than ever.
When you examine fleet cost increases in their totality, the fleet industry is experiencing a simultaneous convergence of many different cost trends.

The top six cost trends examined are:


Higher acquisition costs and the minimal or non-existent availability of fleet incentives.
Inflationary pressures on all goods and services, higher interest rates, and higher fuel prices.
Ongoing sourcing constraints primarily due to restrictive OEM ordering allocation systems that preclude fleets from getting all the replacement units they need.
As the average age of fleet vehicles in service increases, so does the frequency of unscheduled maintenance incidents and PM expenses as older vehicles enter new PM intervals, often requiring replacing wear items such as tires and brakes.
Higher rental expenses due to unpredictable OTD and slower maintenance turnaround due to replacement parts shortages.
Increase in tolls, dollar amount for parking fines, miscellaneous environmental disposal fees for tires and motor oil, and assorted property taxes on fleet assets.


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