Automotive Fleet, July 2018

AUTOMOTIVE FLEET I JULY 2018 40 DAVE RUSH Sr Mgr EHS Fleet Reynolds American Inc Total vehicles 2700 Staff supervised 1 Years with current fleet 6 Years in industry 14 14 in Safety 6 in Fleet Notable achievements Dave Rush has spent more than 38 years working at R J Reynolds serving as the companys fleet manager for six years Hes recently added OnStar to his fleet and to date has been able to recover 21 stolen vehicles He negotiated a deal that ultimately replaced R J Reynolds fleet with newer vehicles complete with higher standard options He then shortcycled the fleets vehicles with its previous OEM with ones from its new one replacing over 2000 vehicles with a credit of 22 million in lease adjustments Maintenance savings alone were over 18 million for the year and R J Reynolds total fleet cost was down 376 in CY 2015 compared to CY 2014 ERIN GILCHRIST Director Fleet Safelite AutoGlass Total vehicles 8200 Staff supervised 4 Years with current fleet 12 Years in industry 12 Notable achievements Erin Gilchrist has been instrumental in leading Safelites longterm sustainability and innovation strategy with the companys fleet of more than 8000 vehicles She introduced telematics and driver safety behavior management to Safelite in 2013 and has since implemented other initiatives like idle reduction engine calibration technology CNG and electric hybrid vehicle piloting significant light weighting of the box truck fleet which have together yielded more than 8000000 in savings and reduced gallons consumption by more than 5 million JIM PETRILLO Manager Treasury Services and Fleet Management Fujifilm Total vehicles 1500 Staff supervised 1 Years with current fleet 8 Years in industry 8 Notable achievements Jim Petrillo has used his finance background to find many opportunities for overall savings in areas such as resale and cash flow saving the company in excess of 15 million to date In 2015 Petrillo along with the HR risk management and legal departments developed a comprehensive safety policy that is measurable which in turn makes the driver accountable for their actions Drivers must now go through regular training and are aware of Fujifilms increased MVR monitoring ABE STEPHENSON Fleet and Administration Manager DISH Total vehicles 3500 Staff supervised 5 Years with current fleet 11 Years in industry 11 Notable achievements Abe Stephenson Finished 2017 with a nine year downward trend in fleet cost per mile representing over 90M of cost avoidance over that period compared to peak cost per mile In addition to on roading all new vehicles with after market collision avoidance technology since model year 2016 he helped install 800 additional units on existing vehicles with 60 of the fleet now covered with collision avoidance capabilities Additionally he aided in reducing engine idling time an additional 20 through GPS tracking JEREMY MUOIO Director of Fleet and Asset Management MasTec Total vehicles 4000 Staff supervised 10 Years with current fleet 3 Years in industry 4 Notable achievements Jeremy Muoio has helped MasTec transform fleet operations at Mas Tec by building business processes that leverage data from sources like telematics fuel FMC and HR systems to engage drivers directly with responsibility for their assigned vehicle Fleet management processes include a system to automatically assign drivers to vehicles a system to eliminate theft and enforce proper fueling habits as well as systems to limit idling and force adherence to maintenance schedules Administrative accuracy fleet utilization and maintenance compliance have improved dramatically and fuel savings from theft and idle reduction have reached 5 million a year BRAD BOHNEN Head of Fleet Management North America Ericsson Inc Total vehicles 1000 Staff supervised 2 Years with current fleet 9 Years in industry 25 Notable achievements In 2009 Brad Bohnen joined Ericsson to develop and deploy a comprehensive fleet program in North America a region of the company that never had fleet vehicles Over the next nine years Bohnen developed many best in class programs which resulted in significant cost savings and process efficiencies Throughout his tenure he introduced safety initiatives to managing driver risks that were identified through in depth root cause analysis Bohnen implemented a series of measures to drive improvements which includes technology deployment driver policy management driver eligibility administration and safety training which reduced crashes by 10 12 SPONSORED BY