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Over 100 fleet managers, Affiliates, and guests attended the annual Chicago Chapter Auto Show meeting held at McCormick Place in Chicago, one of the biggest Chapter meetings of the year at one of the biggest and best shows.
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At the heart of it, fleet managers are responsible for all sorts of assets and equipment, and not all of it is an on-road automotive vehicle. At NAFA Pacific Southwest Chapter's March meeting, attendees dug deep into this fundamental question: how do I follow the necessary guidelines and responsibility for these vehicles even though they are not like standard vehicle types?
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Please join the NAFA New York InterCounty Chapter as we visit the New York International Auto Show on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The Javits Center is located at 655 W. 34th Street on 11th Avenue between 34th and 40th Streets. Do not go to the center first as we have changed the format. Find out inside what you must do to attend this event!
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To promote a little healthy competition between Chapters, NAFA will be awarding one Chapter with a free CAFM ® enrollment at the annual Chapter Recognition Luncheon, Tuesday afternoon, April 19 NAFA’s 2016 Institute & Expo in Austin, Texas!
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Want more people at your next NAFA Chapter meeting? Recaps and previews of meetings in NAFAConnection can help boost attendance! All it takes is a few minutes to submit information and the entire membership will know about the great work you're doing.
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NAFA's Institute & Expo provides education that is designed to meet your specific fleet needs. Need proof? Inside is a small sampling of the hot-button topics affecting fleet right now and being discussed at NAFA's Institute & Expo, April 19-22 in Austin, Texas! NAFA's 2016 I&E registration is at www.nafainstitute.org!
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New to the world of Global Fleet? NAFA’s International Fleet Academy on April 18, 2016 at the Austin Convention Center will dig deep into what it means for fleet managers when their companies and organizations go global. You must register separately for this one-day event so don't miss out -- register now!
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Meet with colleagues working in the same fleet segment as you at I&E’s Friday morning workshops! Whether you have a Pharmaceuticals or a utility fleet, a government or a university fleet, NAFA’s Institute & Expo provides you the opportunity to share experiences and concerns at the industry workshops on the morning of Friday, April 22.
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NAFA has completely unbundled the certification program and you can earn a "Certificates of Completion" in any of the eight education competencies! Take a single discipline that is relevant to your current needs or employment and get immediate recognition upon successfully completing an exam on that discipline.
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NAFA’s Law Enforcement Group (LEG) collects service reports from your agencies on a monthly basis and presents them to the manufacturers well in advance of NAFA’s Institute & Expo (I&E) for solution. Please be sure to submit your service reports ASAP! Reporting links inside. The deadline for this is March 31. Act now!
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If you've been thinking about working towards your CAFM ® designation, but are still on the fence about doing so, you're in luck! If you are planning to attend the Institute and Expo this April 19-22, you will have the chance to take the program for a test drive! There's never been a better time to become CAFM ®-certified! To take advantage of this opportunity, you must register by March 30!
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NAFA’s CAFM ®/CAFS ® Boot Camp can help prepare you if you're interested in the individual certificate of your choice; so if you're looking to get your Information Management certificate this upcoming year, enroll for the next Boot Camp webinar: Information Management! This webinar takes place Wednesday and Thursday, May 3 & 4, so don't miss out!
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Please join us for an all-new webinar which will help you kick-start the certification program OR find the techniques and motivation to complete it successfully. This session will contain an overview of the program as well as up-to-date information on new module releases and program improvements. It will walk you through the certification website and provide contact information for key NAFA staff.
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Find out about the chapter meetings you will want to be a part of this year. Details inside!
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FMCSA Seeks Public Comment on Sleep Apnea, FMCSA Proposes New Training Rules, and New Report Recommends Research to Improve Understanding of Fatigue and Crash Risk.
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British Columbia Invests $ 11.9 Million in its Innovative Clean Energy Fund
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After several years of increases, a straight average of commercial fleet auction prices declined slightly in 2015. This was driven primarily by weakness in the compact car segment. As in the overall market, pickups and vans enjoyed lower-than-expected depreciation. All market segments exhibited smaller seasonal swings in pricing during 2015.
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In the April 7, 2015 edition of the Fleet Management Weekly e-newsletter, Fleet Industry Marketer Ed Pierce summarized the steps necessary to ensure success at the fleet industry’s biggest exhibition event – NAFA's Institute & Expo. This year, Ed and Fleet Management Weekly offer a more complete chronology of the "best practices" NAFA I&E exhibitors should adopt every year.
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Get your company in front of fleet's biggest single gathering of professionals, the 2016 Institute & Expo! Join the companies listed here and make a major impact for your products and services!
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Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler both had their best February for U.S. sales since 2006, and Nissan North America posted its highest market share for any month ever. Meanwhile, General Motors is on pace to lose share for a fifth consecutive year. For all four companies, the explanation largely comes down to one word: fleet.
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Automatic Emergency Braking will become standard on virtually all cars sold in the United States by 2022. The development is the result of an unusual consortium formed last autumn that is expected to serve as precedent for other efforts to get advanced safety technology into new vehicles faster than would be possible through the traditional legislative process.
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6,100 ExxonMobil fuel stations now accept Apple Pay. The company expects that figure to reach 8,000 locations by mid-year, and that all of its U.S. Exxon and Mobil stations—there are nearly 10,000 of them—will be Apple Pay-ready by the end of 2016.
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Not only is Michigan home to the Detroit Three automakers, it’s also state that sees drivers charged more for auto insurance than any other in the United States, according to a new study. The average cost of car insurance in Michigan is $2,738 a year: more than double the national average of $1,325. It marked the third year in a row that the Wolverine state took top "honors."
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An intelligent "companion" component studies the driving style and preferences of the primary driver of the car so that it can eventually perform some daily tasks and offer advice about how best to complete others. It will also be able to communicate with humans outside the car—for example, signaling pedestrians when it is safe to cross in front of the car while it is in self-driving mode.
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Shana, the official news service of Iran’s Oil Ministry, said the tanker, the Monte Toledo, an 890-foot vessel registered in Portugal, had started transferring the Iranian oil to the refinery of Compañía Española de Petróleos, in Algeciras, a southern Spanish port near Gibraltar.
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NAFA welcomes new Members and Affiliates into the Association. Thank you for making NAFA your association!
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It is the strength of our members like Club NAFA Members like Brandon Sohl and Michael Stevens; and Fred Davies, Thomas Larkum, Richard Nicoletti, and John Pieper that has helped make NAFA the strongest association in fleet management today.
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NAFA's Institute and Expo is a great opportunity for you to network with industry colleagues, as well as attend a variety of different educational sessions that will help you take your fleet management skills to the next level! These presentations will address a wide array of topics. Click inside to find out more!
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NAFA thanks the publications that have recognized and publicized the benefits of NAFA's Institute & Expo to their readership! Your publication can play a crucial role at the fleet event of the year for fleet professionals. Find out how!
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Do you know someone who isn't a member of NAFA who would still like to attend our Institute and Expo in Austin this April? Then you need to take part in our I&E Registration Challenge! We're also offering free one year NAFA memberships to non-members who sign up for four day I&E passes! Find out more inside!
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Register for International Fleet Academy (April 18) and Institute & Expo (April 19-22) and get the full measure of global fleet expertise from the sources that know the ins-and-outs of this continually expanding aspect of the business world! Find out more inside!
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The 2017 Mercedes S Class plug-in hybrid will feature a brand new wireless charging system technology when it hits showrooms next summer. The new wireless charging system is being developed jointly with BMW in order to keep development costs relatively low. The system would allow for charging times similar to those provided by regular cable-based charging.
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Volvo Cars believes the global automotive industry should strive towards the introduction of a standardized charging infrastructure for electric cars. To support this drive towards a global standard for electric car charging, Volvo has decided to throw its weight behind the Charging Interface Initiative, a consortium of stakeholders that was founded to establish their Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging battery-powered vehicles.
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Researchers at the University of California are working on turning piles of poo into something useful—fuel that can run in ordinary cars instead of gas, and fertilizer that can replace the energy-intensive fertilizers that are usually used on farms.
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As part of the ongoing effort to make their fleets more sustainable, as well as more efficient, Bimbo Bakeries USA and Nestlé Waters have announced that they will be making deliveries in trucks fueled by clean-burning, domestically produced propane autogas. Both companies made the announcement at the NTEA Work Truck Show earlier this month.
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It's been six months since Volkswagen's infamous "Dieselgate" emissions scandal began. Since then, the German automaker has fired U.S. CEO Michael Horn, they face billions in fines, lawsuits, and bad PR, and they will likely miss their March 24 deadline to announce a fix. They have also been denying any knowledge of what happened, until news broke earlier this month that VW brass may have had prior knowledge of these "defeat devices" one year before the problem went public.
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A recent study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that electric vehicles (EVs) will cost the same as their gas-powdered counterparts by the year 2020. So if a big price tag has been keeping you from investing in this technology, you need only wait four more years for EVs to become much more affordable.
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One of the most important facets of fleet management is the ability to conduct a lifecycle cost analysis. Unfortunately, for many fleet managers, this can also be one of the most difficult aspects of the job. Thanks to NAFA's Lifecycle Cost Analysis For Fleets, fleet managers can learn all they need to know about lifecycle cost analysis in just three hours! Visit the NAFA Store now!
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NAFA's Emergency Operations Manual is specifically written for fleet managers! This "how-to" guide provides step-by step instructions to develop an effective emergency operations plan and is a must-have when events become unpredictable.
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