The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered everything from data management to aftermarket parts.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of May 2023

Pest control company The Bug Master was able to get control of their field data by pairing Coast and Fleetio.

How The Bug Master Mastered Multi-Channel Data with Fleetio and Coast

Predictive maintenance leverages real-time, customized telematics data to identify vehicle or truck failures before they occur – creating multiple benefits for fleets.

How to Reduce Fleet Downtime with Predictive Maintenance

By converting landfill gas into renewable natural gas, waste management fleets can reduce their fuel expenses, unlock new revenue and reduce emissions.

Turning Trash into Fuel: How Waste Management Companies are Finding Profits in Landfill Gases

Maintaining parts and inventory can require a lot of attention to ensure your numbers are accurate, but even the best efforts can fall short and result in discrepancies. That’s where inventory reconciliations come in handy.

What is an inventory reconciliation?

Purchase order software improves parts inventory management, service times and inventory accounting.

“How to Make the Most of Automated Purchase Order Software”

How to Make the Most of Automated Purchase Order Software

When it comes to fleet maintenance, how fleets communicate can be nearly as important as what they communicate. We outline ways fleets can streamline their maintenance communications.

The Inefficiencies of Traditional Maintenance Communications

Compare 6 fuel monitoring systems, with a look at features and pricing structures, along with the benefits of an automated solution

6 Best Fuel Monitoring Systems & Solutions of 2023

The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered fleet budgeting, compared five highly regarded trucks, explored how fleets can learn from their breakdowns and took a look at geofencing.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of April 2023

Discover how construction fleets can mitigate the impact of equipment downtime on their projects and prevent it from happening in the first place, and learn about strategies like having a contingency plan, using preventive maintenance, and offering training to operators.

What to do when downtime impacts project timelines

Through the use of preventive maintenance schedules, fleets can better ensure that their assets receive the upkeep they need.

How to Create Your Preventive Maintenance Schedules

5 Steps to a Preventive Maintenance Schedule

Quickly find the fleet data you need by customizing your fleet management dashboard.

Save Time by Customizing Your Fleet Management Dashboard

Learn about every step of the work order management process, along with benefits and software solutions.

What is Work Order Management? Process and Benefits

Process, Benefits and Solutions for Work Order Management

Fleet pros are divided on whether aftermarket or OEM parts provide the best value. We explore both sides of the debate to help you decide.

What is Better for Your Fleet? Aftermarket vs. OEM Parts

Find out everything you need to know about fleet ownership, including a step-by-step guide, a look at the legal requirements, and pros & cons.

Fleet Ownership Guide: Steps, Considerations & Requirements

What is over-the-road (OTR) trucking and how does it compare to regional and local trucking? Plus, resources to find jobs and drivers.

Guide to OTR Trucking: Meaning, Jobs & Comparison

OTR Trucking: What it is and How to Find OTR Drivers and Jobs

Learn how to become a successful owner-operator in the trucking field with expert tips and a step-by-step guide.

Step-By-Step Guide to Owner Operator Trucking

How to Become a Successful Owner Operator

Farm fleets can use scalable software to keep up with seasonal changes in asset usage, ensuring proper maintenance is scheduled for the right assets.

Benefits of Scalable Software for Farm Fleets

Here are our tips and tricks for creating a PM schedule you can actually follow.

What Should a Preventive Maintenance Schedule Look Like?

Learn everything you need to know about work orders – what to include, how to create your own, types, tools and tips!

Guide to Creating & Optimizing Work Orders

Find out all you need to know about reactive maintenance - including what it is, its advantages and disadvantages, and how it differs from preventive maintenance.

Reactive Maintenance – What it is, Pros & Cons, Comparison

Understanding Reactive Maintenance: Advantages & Disadvantages

VMRS provides precise maintenance categorization and reporting for in-depth fleet asset health analysis. Learn more in this VMRS guide

What are VMRS Codes? Benefits & Breakdown

The Benefits of VMRS for Maintenance Reporting

Qualified technicians are becoming increasingly hard to come by. But by making a few changes, fleets can significantly improve their tech retention.

How to Retain Fleet Technicians

Discover best practices and key benefits on how to prolong the lifespan of your heavy equipment, ensure safety and reduce downtime.

Heavy Equipment Inspection | Benefits & Best Practices

Benefits & Best Practices of Heavy Equipment Inspections

Through automation, geofencing takes GPS-enabled vehicle tracking to the next level. Let’s explore the basics and benefits of geofencing.

Taking Advantage of Geofencing for Your Fleet

An effective preventive maintenance program is the best way for fleets to guarantee uptime, reduce repair costs and lengthen asset lifespan.

Guide to Developing a Successful Vehicle Maintenance Program

The Best Preventive Maintenance Program Guide for Fleets

Explore the benefits of a fleet management system - how it can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance safety, and maintain complete asset visibility

8 Key Benefits of Fleet Management Systems

Key Benefits of Fleet Management Systems

The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered the future of trucking and how a multi-state mechanical contractor aligns their operations.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of March 2023

Taking a look at the five finalists for Medium-Duty Truck of the Year.

Comparing Work Truck’s Top 5 Medium-Duty Trucks

Fleet maintenance checklists can help keep tasks—large and small—from falling through the cracks. Get expert tips & learn what to include!

Maximize Uptime With Fleet Maintenance Checklists

In this detailed breakdown, we explore what CMMS is, what it does, how it works and who it benefits.

What is a CMMS? Benefits, Features & How it Works

From procurement to maintenance, we break down everything fleet managers are in charge of overseeing.

Key Skills, Challenges & Responsibilities of a Fleet Manager

By analyzing the data surrounding their vehicle breakdowns, fleets can identify ways they can dramatically improve their operations.

What You Can Learn from Breakdowns in Your Fleet?

For public transportation agencies, maximizing vehicle uptime is mission-critical. We outline three ways to keep buses on the road in this blog post.

How Local Transportation Agencies Can Maintain the Highest Possible Uptime

Fleet tracking apps provide real-time visibility into your fleet. Learn what features to look for, and compare options in our list of the 7 best GPS apps.

Fleet Tracking App | Benefits, Features & Top Tools

7 Best fleet tracking apps & the features to look for

The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered everything from fleet electrification to parts inventory valuation.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of February 2023

How to determine which parts inventory cost valuation method is best for your fleet.

Parts Inventory Valuation: When to use LIFO vs FIFO

Let’s take a look at what pest control fleets should seek out in their fleet vehicles.

What to consider in pest control fleet vehicles

An increase in the price of electricity has internal combustion engine vehicles pulling ahead of EVs in terms of cost savings.

Cost and Value: Internal Combustion Engine versus Electric Vehicles

Explore what a fuel management system is, how it works and how it can improve your fleet operations.

Comprehensive Guide to Fuel Management Systems

Regular fleet inspections keep your vehicles and their drivers safe. Explore why they’re important, how regularly to conduct them, and the essential checks.

A Quick Guide To Fleet Inspections

Fleets can use maintenance scheduling software as an effective method of communication to improve PM compliance.

Strengthen PM Practices through Clear Communication

Here a few things trucking fleets should be on the lookout for in the next year.

What Can Trucking Expect to See in 2023?

Unauthorized vehicle use is a major cost and liability risk for fleets. But with telematics, fleets can monitor their assets and prevent misuse.

Monitoring Fleet Assets with Telematics

A preventative maintenance checklist helps you ensure you’ve got everything covered, every time. Let’s go through what you should include!

What to Include in Your Preventive Maintenance Checklist

Ordered, easily-manageable parts inventories keep business operations running smoothly – we explore the benefits & best practices

Eight Best Practices to Manage Your Parts Inventories Efficiently

Get a better understanding of inventory-related data, including how to optimize parts, PPE and supplies inventory management.

Understanding Fleet Data: Inventory

Find out what causes fuel overages and what you can do about it when it happens.

What to Do When Fuel Usage is Too High

Planning your preventive maintenance helps maximize efficiency and avoid downtime. Learn all you need to know about implementing an effective plan!

Everything You Need to Know About Planned Preventive Maintenance

TCO can be a powerful tool for measuring profitability, but looking at it in isolation can obscure your view to a single metric, instead of all the metrics that comprise it.

A Nuanced Perspective on TCO

Using parts valuation systems like LIFO and FIFO help fleets navigate fluctuating costs.

Inventory Valuation Methods Improve Parts Cost Tracking

Trucking and logistics fleets are increasingly adopting automation technologies to improve daily processes.

Why More Trucking and Logistics Fleets are Adopting Automation

Although the threat of stricter emissions regulations looms large, not all fleets can feasibly switch to reduced-emissions assets.

Adapt to Upcoming Emissions Regulations Without Going Full Electric

With the right implementation, APIs can combine disparate data into one spot, save fleets time, reduce errors and make more sense of the fleet data that’s being collected every day.

Understanding Fleet APIs: Unifying Data in One Place

Refrigerated vehicles have unique maintenance needs compared to conventional vans and trucks. Discover what it takes to keep them operational.

Essential Maintenance Procedures for Refrigerated Fleets

Get a better understanding of work order data, including how to practically apply changes for improvement based on insights from that data.

Understanding Fleet Data: Work Orders

Between barcodes, QR codes and NFC tags, different equipment tags possess unique pros and cons. Discover which option best suits your fleet's needs.

A Comparative Look at Equipment Tags

Implementing an effective equipment maintenance program for your assets reduces downtime and lengthens equipment lifespan.

Guide to Equipment Maintenance Programs – And Why It’s Time to Be Preventive

Learn how fleet telematics can help both fleet management and maintenance, how it works, and what the future holds!

How Fleet Telematics Can Improve Management & Maintenance

A look into the fleet industry trends for 2023.

Fleet Industry Trends for 2023

Get the details on 2023 fleet management conferences and trade shows and learn about their educational and networking opportunities.

2023 Fleet Management Conferences and Trade Shows

Technology has changed the way some fleet management jobs look, but there are certain qualities and qualifications that fleet managers can focus on to stay up-to-date in fleet management.

Building A Fleet Management Skill Set

Vehicle idling is a pernicious threat to the bottom line of every fleet. But through effective workforce training, fleets can minimize fuel waste.

The Cost of Idling for Fleets

Telematics can be a fantastic tool for school bus fleet safety and efficiency.

Improving School Bus Fleet Safety and Efficiency with Telematics

A snap-shot look into the trucking industry conferences, and trade shows coming up in 2022.

2023 Trucking Conferences and Trade Shows

Good fleet maintenance services are crucial for maintaining a healthy, well-functioning fleet and keeping your assets safe. Learn how to choose the best!

How to Choose a Great Fleet Maintenance Service Provider

EVs may be the way of the future, but the shift from fuel-based vehicles won’t happen overnight. Learn how to make the jump smoothly with these tips.

Tips for Adapting to an Electrified Fleet

Fleet software provides industry-specific supplies inventory management, allowing fleets to optimize on-hand counts and reduce excess spend.

Track Trade Supplies and Materials Inventories with Software

Finding the perfect timing for your fleet’s daily vehicle inspections is more of an art than a science, but once you figure it out, you open the door to better insights on vehicle health and smoother maintenance processes.

How Long Should Vehicle Inspections Take?

Keeping operating expenses under control is critical for delivery fleets. Discover four tactics you can use to boost profitability.

How Delivery Fleets Can Reduce Their Operating Expenses

CVSA has published the most common vehicle safety violations of 2022. Here’s what fleets can do to prevent those infractions.

How Fleets Can Prevent the Most Common Safety Violations

Being prepared for natural disaster response comes down to preventive maintenance, and there are a few things fleets can do to make that process more efficient.

How to Stay Ready for Natural Disaster Response

Tracking and monitoring PPE conditions using digital inspections can help utility fleets improve employee safety.

Improve the Safety and Reliability of Utility PPE with Digital Inspections

Avoid fines and maximize asset visibility to ensure safety by maintaining fleet compliance. Find out everything you need to know (+ an easy software solution!)

Fleet Compliance Guide: Best Practices & Solutions

Find out how to implement a fleet preventive maintenance plan — from best practices to vehicle checklists!

Fleet Preventive Maintenance Components & Best Practices

Fleets can uncover costly trends and gain better control of service spend through maintenance data categorization.

The Benefits of Maintenance Data Categorization

Cost inflation for parts, supplies and assets trickles down from fleets to customers. Here are a few tips to stay competitive despite increased costs.

Tips for Staying Competitive Despite Inflation

Automation doesn’t have to be an intimidating prospect. Here are a few ways fleet management software can help you automate some of your processes to make running a fleet even easier.

Automated Fleet Management Software – A Resource or a Replacement?

While managing an international fleet presents unique challenges, the right fleet management software is more than up to the task.

Tips for Managing Your International Fleet

Fleetio’s Head of Product Marketing Ashlee Biggs, discusses what makes fleet management software a driver of efficiency for landscape companies.

How Fleet Management Software Can Benefit Landscape Companies

New vehicles have become hard to come by, but with the right maintenance tactics, the lives of aging assets can be extended.

The Importance of Maintenance for Aging Vehicles

Proactive fleet management can be the biggest determinant of whether a fleet is productive or not. We’ve outlined the hallmarks of a reactive fleet, as well as what you can do to be more proactive.

4 Symptoms of a Reactive Fleet (and how to cure them)

Approaching preventive maintenance with the mindset of getting it done before it’s needed can ultimately save you a ton of money down the line.

The Benefits of Strict PM Adherence

When trialing a robust fleet solution, it can be difficult to pinpoint where to start and what actions to take to yield maximum product insight.

Fleet Solutions: Making the Most of a Free Trial

Small fleets and those running lean crews can often benefit most from automating daily processes with software.

How Small Fleets can Benefit from Automating Processes

Although fleet may only take up a percentage of operational output and expenses, the role of fleet within overall business performance shouldn’t go overlooked.

How Fleet Affects the Entire Business

With so many fleet technologies on the market, it’s important to understand how they work and the different problems they solve.

The Importance of Understanding Different Fleet Technologies

Some fleet managers aren’t actually fleet managers – managing a fleet is a duty that sometimes gets rolled into other positions’ job duties. If you’re a non-traditional fleet manager, there are still plenty of ways you can successfully run a fleet while balancing your other responsibilities.

The Non-Fleet Manager’s Guide to Fleet Management

While cloud-based software has helped advance much of the technology driving fleet, many fleet managers have some understandable hesitations preventing them from going all in on a fleet management platform.

The Risks of Cloud-Based Fleet Software

Discerning which fleet metrics certain stakeholders are most interested in can help you tailor reports to highlight the data that matters most.

Benefits of Tailoring Reports to Stakeholder Interests

The art of knowing exactly when an asset has reached the end of its lifespan can become more of a science, if you know what to look for.

How to Calculate Your Vehicle Replacement Timeline

When looking for fleet softwares and solutions, having clearly defined business goals helps ensure you’re asking all the right questions.

How to Find the Right Fleet Solution for Your Operation

Get a better understanding of asset usage data, including how to practically apply changes for improvement based on insights from that data.

Understanding Fleet Data: Asset Usage

Advancement in fleet-related technologies have contributed to the evolution of the fleet management role over the years.

The Evolution of Fleet Management and Rise of Supporting Technologies

In segments throughout the fleet industry, managers are surfacing common challenges that are applicable to fleets from restoration and landscaping to transportation and logistics.

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