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Technology can show you what’s happening across a fleet. But Erin Gilchrist has found that technology questions often lead back to the same place: leadership, behavior, and culture. Erin, founder of Fleet Unfiltered Consulting and former AFLA Fleet Manager of the Year, explains the difference betwe…

Jamie McKay walked into a role that had never existed at Aptive Pest Control, in the middle of COVID, knowing almost nothing about fleet. Six years later, she manages a fleet that has grown from 400 vehicles to more than 2,400 across 76 locations. Her approach has been simple: get into the room, as…

Autonomous trucks mean so much more than driverless. Nick Elder, VP of Commercialization at Torc Robotics, joins The Fleet to explain what has to be true before autonomy becomes something fleets can actually use. He breaks down why Level 4 requires a fundamentally different safety architecture, wha…

Your service vehicle may be built around assumptions that stopped being true years ago. At Siemens, Adam Orth and his team went into the field to see how technicians were actually using their vehicles—and found vans carrying more empty space than equipment, underused shelving, and jobs that no long…

Fleet costs money. Trying to minimize those expenses can cost far more. Jennifer Pemberton, Senior Manager of Fleet and Routing at Alsco Uniforms, explains why the cheapest decision in the short term is not always the least expensive one in the long term. From maintaining aging fleets to making the…

Robert Braswell has spent 33 years at the neutral technical seat of the trucking industry as Executive Director of the Technology and Maintenance Council. He sees what's actually working across fleets — and what's being abandoned. In this conversation, he breaks down what fleets are betting on for …

In this special look back at The Fleet, industry leaders explore how mobility, infrastructure, technology, economics, data, and driver experience are becoming part of one connected system. Featuring Sampo Hietanen, Mobility as a Service pioneer; Sven Beiker of Silicon Valley Mobility; Philipp Kamps…

Sometimes the smartest freight route is A to C to B. Lacy Greening, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University and a semifinalist in the DOT's ARPA-I Innovation Challenge, studies the hidden math of middle-mile freight — the hubs, lanes, and consolidation decisions th…

Only 1 in 10 fleet cyber attacks ever gets reported — and the smaller the carrier, the more likely the breach ends quietly in bankruptcy. Joe Ohr, COO of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA), spent 25 years inside fleet IT and telematics before stepping into the role that's made h…