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Are the Benefits of Telematics Worth the Expense?

January 30, 2007

Currently, there are more than 2.5 million telematic units in service managing fleet vehicles, mobile workers, trailers, heavy equipment and other assets. The market is expected to expand to 5.8 million units by 2009, with revenues growing to more than $2 billion.

Author: Mike Antich | Posted @ Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:05 PM | » Comments(0)

Is Fleet Management Devolving to Crisis Management?

January 23, 2007

Since the start of the 21st century, seven short years ago, fleet managers have been buffeted by one major crisis after another. Following 9-11, there was an overnight meltdown in residual values. Then, Hurricane Katrina triggered fuel prices to skyrocket to $3 a gallon, literally overnight. If someone told us in 1999 that resale values would plummet 30 percent in the space of months and that fuel prices would exceed $3 a gallon, we would have dismissed these predictions as Chicken Little hyster

Author: Mike Antich | Posted @ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:09 AM | » Comments(0)

Multi-Tasking While Driving is Causing a Rise in Preventable Accidents

January 16, 2007

More and more fleet managers rank driver safety as either their number-one or number-two challenge (after the high cost of fuel). One reason for the heightened concern is that fleet managers are reporting an increase in preventable accidents, with the root cause driver distraction.

Author: Mike Antich | Posted @ Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:05 AM | » Comments(0)

Multi-Tasking While Driving is Causing a Rise in Preventable Accidents

January 9, 2007

More and more fleet managers rank driver safety as either their number-one or number-two challenge (after the high cost of fuel). One reason for the heightened concern is that fleet managers are reporting an increase in preventable accidents, with the root cause driver distraction.

Author: Mike Antich | Posted @ Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:31 PM | » Comments(0)

Will Drivers Ultimately Demand Self-Serve Fleet Management?

January 2, 2007

The U.S. is migrating to a self-serve economy. Interactive self-service technology permeates large swathes of our economy, with the retail, hospitality, banking, and travel industries being the early adopters. We utilize this technology with ATMs, online banking, pay-at-the-pump fuel stations, Web-based shopping, self-service retail checkout lanes, Internet-enabled travel reservation systems, and touch-screen kiosks to check-in at airports and hotels. Most of us don’t realize how huge this marke

Author: Mike Antich | Posted @ Tuesday, January 2, 2007 10:36 AM | » Comments(0)

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Mike Antich

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Mike Antich has been covering the fleet management and vehicle remarketing markets for more than 20 years. During this period, Mike has written or edited more than 4,600 articles on the subjects of fleet management, manufacturer fleet activities, the fleet leasing industry, and vehicle remarketing.

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