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Explore the top 3 charging infrastructure trends revolutionizing EV accessibility. Discover how innovative charging solutions are shaping the future of EV adoption and driving sustainable transportation. 

EV Charging Infrastructure Trends

3 Charging Infrastructure Trends That Are Making EVs More Accessible

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Learn what you should consider when creating driver assignments and how to optimize scheduling for improved productivity and reduced costs

Guide to Driver Scheduling: What to Consider & How to Optimize

Driver Scheduling: What to Consider & How to Optimize

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Learn all you need to know about CMMS implementation in 10 key steps, including actionable tips and insights.

Expert Guide to CMMS Implementation: Steps & Tips

10 Steps to Successful CMMS Implementation

Turn fleet data insights into action items

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Large fleets often face challenges when it comes to analyzing data to gain actionable insights into their operation, but a centralized platform may be the answer.

Mastering Fleet Data: Overcome Challenges of Unlocking Insights

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The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered everything from driver certifications to how technology has changed the skills fleet managers need to succeed.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of August 2023

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Fleets require specialized equipment to maintain electric vehicles effectively. We break down three essential tools every EV fleet should own.

Going Electric: 3 Types of Tools and Equipment Needed for EV Maintenance

3 Types of Tools and Equipment for EV Fleet Maintenance

Cut out the chaos of large fleet management

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The challenges of tracking and managing assets for large fleet managers can seem insurmountable, but fleet management solutions can help rein in the chaos.

Streamline Large Fleet Operations with Fleet Management Solutions

Improve driver adoption of fleet solutions

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Without driver buy in and adoption, successfully implementing a new fleet solution can prove difficult at best and next to impossible at worst.

Overcoming Challenges with Driver Adoption of New Technologies

Overcoming Driver Adoption Challenges when Implementing New Fleet Technologies

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The preventive maintenance needs of advanced driver-assistance systems often go neglected. Here's what fleets should do to ensure their ADASs operate at their best.

Preventive Maintenance Best Practices for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Three PM Tasks to Maintain Your Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems

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Simplify the process of managing a mixed fleet of electric vehicles and traditional internal combustion engine vehicles by considering these 10 factors.

Managing a Fleet of EV and ICE Assets

Managing a Mixed Fleet: How to Balance EV and ICE Assets with a Hybrid Approach

Fleet management cost analysis is the most effective way to make data-driven decisions to maximize profitability.

Fleet Management Cost Analysis: Everything You Need to Know

Establishing equipment maintenance procedures for your fleet helps avoid downtime and lengthen tool lifespan.

Equipment Maintenance Procedures Guide

Tracking fleet management KPIs and setting benchmarks is the best way to enhance fleet productivity and control costs.

6 Fleet Management KPIs You Should Be Targeting

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The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered everything from driver retention to best practices for managing electric vehicles.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of July 2023

Operational Cost Analysis of Trucking

Highlights from the American Transportation Research Institute’s Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking: 2023 Update.

Operational Costs of Trucking in 2023

Operational Costs Analysis of Trucking: An Overview

How can fleet managers better resolve vehicle issues?

Explore different strategies for vehicle issue management, as well as some common maintenance and repair issues that fleet managers might encounter.

Effective Strategies for Vehicle Issue Management - Fleetio

Effective Strategies for Vehicle Issue Management

Types of PM fleets shouldn’t neglect

By taking a comprehensive approach to their vehicles' needs, fleets can save time and money by addressing minor defects before they snowball into major problems.

6 Examples of Preventive Maintenance that Save Time & Money

How plumbing fleets leverage FMSs

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description: For growing plumbing fleets, paper and spreadsheets can only cut it for so long. With the help of fleet management software, plumbing fleets can remove any blockages to maintenance compliance.

Plumbing Fleet Management Software: How Three Plumbing Fleets Found Success

How Three Plumbing Fleets Found Success with Fleetio

Tire Alignment 101

Learn about the significance of wheel alignment for proper vehicle maintenance. Discover the causes of bad alignment, the consequences of neglecting alignment, and signs that indicate your vehicle needs an alignment service. 

The Importance of Wheel Alignment for Vehicle Maintenance

3 Signs that Your Vehicle Needs Alignment

Benefit of fleet management software for large fleets

Managing upward of a thousand fleet assets can be overwhelming. Enterprise fleets can use fleet management software to ease that burden.

How Fleet Management Software Benefits Enterprise Fleets

Fleet Management Software can Prove a Valuable Tool for Enterprise Fleets

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Here are a few strategies university fleets can use to be more accessible to students with disabilities on their campuses.

How to Create a More Inclusive Campus with Fleet Accessibility

Fleet tools powered by artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence-powered fleet tools are enabling fleets to improve their productivity, safety and decision making.

Top AI Tools for Fleets in 2023 - Improve Your Fleet's Productivity with Artificial Intelligence

Existing AI Tools to Manage Your Fleet

How to benefit from fleet maintenance prioritization

Fleets can use fleet management software to set maintenance prioritization categories to improve service times and ensure the most critical issues are tackled first. 

Benefits of Fleet Maintenance Prioritization

Prioritize Asset Issues for Improved Maintenance

The Complete Owner-Operator Startup Checklist

Interested in starting your own owner-operator trucking company? We’ve put together an exhaustive checklist to help you through the steps.

Owner-Operator Startup Checklist: Everything You Need for Success

Exploring automotive technologies on the horizon

Find out how fleets can take advantage of automotive technologies on the horizon, such as driver monitoring systems and hydrogen combustion engines, to improve safety, efficiency and productivity.

Exploring Fleet-related Uses for Automotive Technologies on the Horizon

How Fleets can Take Advantage of Incoming Automotive Technologies

2023 Fleet Management Market Breakdown

Check out the latest information on the fleet management market. Our report breaks down market size, the latest trends, challenges and opportunities.

Fleet Management Market: Size, Trends & Opportunities | Fleetio

Fleet Management Market: Size, Trends & Opportunities

Trucker Essentials

Life on the road can be full of unpleasant surprises. But with the right tools and supplies, truckers can overcome many unexpected challenges.

Trucker Essentials | 5 Must-Haves & Nice-to-Haves for Life on the Road

Range Anxiety

Let’s look at range anxiety and explore some of the advancements that are addressing electric vehicle concerns amongst fleet managers.

How far can an EV travel? EV updates address range concern

How EV Updates are Alleviating Range Anxiety

The culmination of our Understanding Fleet Data series explores how to analyze consolidated data for proactive, data-driven insights.

Understanding Fleet Data: Consolidation and Analysis

The latest trends and news in the fleet industry. This month, we covered everything from data reporting to work order tracking.

Fleet Beat: The Top Fleet Industry Articles of June 2023

As large fleets grow, their software needs to evolve. Scalable fleet management software adapts to accommodate enterprises as their fleets expand.

Scalable Fleet Management Software: Finding a Solution for Any Fleet Size

An in-depth look at the rise in CDL drivers leaving their respective industries, including causes and what steps fleets can take to hire from a dwindling pool of candidates.

Addressing the CDL Exodus: How to Encourage Drivers to Join Your Fleet

We spoke with a fleet manager with decades of experience to learn how the profession has evolved and what today’s fleet pros should have in their skill set.

5 Takeaways from Our ‘Essential Fleet Manager Skill Set’ Web Chat

Big data provides in-depth visibility and invaluable insights into enterprise business operations, but it can be overwhelming and difficult to manage.

How Enterprise Fleets can Avoid Data Overload

Learn how Entelar Group was able to use Fleetio to get more control over their asset inventory.

Entelar Group Effectively Tracks over 1,000 Assets with Fleetio

Fleet assets are increasingly becoming targets of theft. Here are a few tips to mitigate that risk and secure your assets.

Combating Fleet Vehicle, Parts and Equipment Theft

EVs are disrupting the industry and changing the way fleets are managed. We break down electric vehicle fleet management to set you up for success.

Electric Vehicle Fleet Management 101: Everything You Need to Know

Trucking logistics companies are a vital aspect of the supply chains we all rely on. Explore the challenges firms commonly encounter and what the future holds for the industry.

Trucking Logistics: Business Model, Pain Points & Trends

Read more on how to generate reports that accomplish your goals and get everyone on board.

How to Create More Effective Reports

Work order tracking software enables organizations to monitor their pending service tasks far more effectively. We explore what to look for in work order solutions.

Guide to Work Order Tracking | Tips & Tools

Discover how remote monitoring technologies empower fleet managers to optimize charging operations and ensure seamless fleet performance. Uncover the key strategies and tools for efficient fleet charging management.

Simplifying Electric Vehicle Charging through Remote Monitoring

Learn how mobile notifications and service reminders are changing the game for fleet managers and helping them stay on top of maintenance schedules, service reminders, and repair history more efficiently and effectively than traditional paper schedules.

How Mobile Notifications and Service Reminders Help Fleet Managers Stay on Top of Maintenance

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Process, Benefits and Solutions for Work Order Management

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

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

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

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

What Should a Preventive Maintenance Schedule Look Like?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Key Benefits of Fleet Management Systems

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

Comparing Work Truck’s Top 5 Medium-Duty Trucks

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

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.

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