Automotive Fleet, August 2018
INDUSTRY NEWS AUTOMOTIVE FLEET I AUGUST 2018 8 DONT WAIT ANOTHER MONTH TO FIND OUT WHATS GOING ON IN THE INDUSTRY GET THE LATEST FLEET NEWS AT WWW AUTOMOTIVEFLEET COM NEWS www automotivefleet com THE CAR AND TRUCK FLEET AND LEASING MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE Citations for Texting While Driving Spike in Iowa A distracted driving law that went into effect in Iowa in 2017 has resulted in over 1100 tickets for texting and driving This translates into six times as many tickets issues compared to the same time period in the prior year automotivefleet com IowaTexting UPS Lowered Accident Rate 1 in 2017 UPS lowered the frequency of accidents in its delivery fleet in 2017 by 1 to 895 accidents per 100000 hours of driving the company noted in its annual sustainability report UPS has a goal of reaching a rate of 875 accidents by 2020 automotivefleet com UPS2017 Kroger to Test Autonomous Vehicle Grocery Delivery Kroger Co has partnered with Nuro a company that has manufactured a fully unmanned road vehicle to pilot a system where a fleet of autonomous vehicles will delivery customer grocery orders The pilot market will be announced soon and deliveries are expected to begin in fall automotivefleet com KrogerAuto NEWS PHOTO FREE PRESS FLICKR PHOTO COURTESY OF UPS PHOTO COURTESY OF KROGER Market Trends By Mike Antich Maximizing Utilization Maximizes Truck Revenue How Fleets Can Avoid Staged Accidents Traditional Procurement Incentive Plans Are Counter Productive to Good Fleet Management BLOG Recent tweets by AF Editor Mike Antich A good barometer on the state of the U S economy and fleet market in general is the number of loaded flatbeds on the highways and number of white vans you see on urban roads The more you see the better the state of the industry From my vantage point things are looking good @ mikeantich FLEET TWEETS www automotivefleet com markettrends www automotivefleet com googleplus www automotivefleet com rss www automotivefleet com youtube www automotivefleet com twitter www automotivefleet com facebook GET SOCIAL af www automotivefleet com linkedin RETAIL FUEL PRICES AS OF JUINE 2018 CITY GASOLINE DIESEL Atlanta GA 280 308 Boston MA 296 323 Chicago IL 309 311 Dallas TX 274 291 Denver CO 280 312 Detroit MI 302 334 Houston TX 268 295 Los Angeles CA 378 399 Memphis TN 268 305 Miami FL 286 317 Minneapolis MN 281 317 New Orleans LA 256 292 New York NY 334 367 Philadelphia PA 305 355 Phoenix AZ 312 319 Portland OR 337 342 San Francisco CA 387 410 Seattle WA 356 367 St Louis MO 273 299 Washington D C 304 325 FUEL REPORT
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