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12/23/20 • 40 min
Today, we are deviating from our regularly scheduled programming. As 2020 comes to a close, we wanted to reshare one of our favorite conversations this year; our interview with Lieutenant Michael Crabb.
Michael is a Lieutenant of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office where he has worked for over 30 years, but it wasn’t until the last few years that he began implementing technology to help his officers avoid the same distractions their civilian counterparts do.
In this episode, Mike shares his experiences implementing new systems of safety management with his officers, some of the shocking things he realized about his own driving habits after doing so, and the results he and his office are now seeing after widespread adoption.
And remember! The holidays are a great time to catch up on some of those old episodes you might have missed. Check them out here.
We hope you have a happy and safe holiday season! We’ll be back next week with a brand new episode to help kick off the new year.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
12/09/20 • 36 min
Last year, the US trucking industry brought in 792 billion dollars of revenue and had over 2 million heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers operating on the roads. Needless to say, trucking is a massive industry, and operating competitively in such a complex industry isn’t easy. But one trucking company that stands out in all that noise is Transport America.
Joining us today is Lisa Gonnerman, the Vice President of Safety and Security at Transport America. Lisa has over 28 years of experience in transportation and safety management, is an active member in the American Trucking Association, and was named the ATA National Safety Director of the Year in 2016.
So what makes Lisa and Transport America different?
Their people.
Lisa prides herself on the exceptional team of drivers that Transport America has been able to attract through its unique, driver-focused culture and its commitment to safety.
Today, Lisa shares her experiences getting into the industry, specifically as a woman in a largely male-dominated field. Plus, tune in to find out how Transport America keeps top employees, and how they’ve gone about implementing systems of safety that stick.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
11/18/20 • 53 min
Author and futurist, Alvin Toffler, once said, “The great growling engine of change [is] technology.”
If there is one thing we can count on in the years and decades to come, it’s that technology will continue to augment and redesign everything we do -- and this includes how we operate and manage fleets.
But exactly what technology can fleet managers expect to see in the future? And what can they do today to prepare for those technologies of tomorrow?
Joining me today is Neil Cawse, CEO & Founder of Geotab, a Candian-based company that specializes in providing analytics-driven fleet management solutions. Neil founded Geotab in 2000, and while he now leads the fast-growing company as CEO, he is still very much an engineer at heart.
In today’s conversation, Neil shares his predictions of the future and what these changes mean for consumers, drivers, and managers. You’ll hear about a wide range of technologies; from 5G and cloud, to new and improved electric vehicles, to telematics, ML, and AI, and much more.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
One of the most pressing challenges facing fleets is safety on the road. That’s why today, we’ve invited on a man with an extensive background in dealing with the problem of distracted driving - first as a police officer enforcing the laws of the road and second as a lieutenant working to mitigate distracted driving among his officers.
Today’s guest is Michael Crabb, a Lieutenant of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, where he heads the Traffic Enforcement Section and Government & Legislative Affairs Unit.
Mike has been with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for over 30 years, but it wasn’t until the last few years that he began implementing technology to help his officers avoid the same distractions their civilian counterparts do.
Today, Mike shares his experiences rolling out new systems of safety management with his officers, some of the shocking things he realized about his own driving habits after doing so, and the results he and his office are now seeing after widespread adaptation.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
09/03/21 • 31 min
What does it take to be nominated as Driver of the Year? 6,000,000 accident-free miles in a career is a good start.
Jan Quarnberg is a driver for Barney Trucking and was recently selected as a Lytx Driver of the Year. He’s been a professional truck driver for over 40 years and has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Lytx/DriveCam Good Driving Award and the Glen Barney Haul of Fame award. In the 6,000,000 miles that he’s driven, Quarnberg has never been involved in an accident and has never had any driving violations -- an incredibly impressive record.
On this show, we talk to all kinds of managers, executives, and industry thought leaders, but rarely do we get to sit down with a driver doing the hard work every day. In today’s conversation, Jan shares with us how he got into trucking, what his day-to-day looks like, and his thoughts on safe driving. Plus, he shares some of the craziest things he’s seen on the road in his career.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
08/25/21 • 43 min
For much of our show, we’ve focused on our market here in the United States, but what about the rest of the world?
Fleet Managers that get assigned to international markets quickly learn just how different other countries operate compared to the United States.
Size of roads, availability of refueling stations, access to repairs and maintenance, laws and regulations, traffic density, and accessways, it’s endless, the myriad of systems in play around the world.
Meet Raj Bajaj, Vice President for Webfleet Solutions International, a Bridgestone Tire company. They are on a mission to make it easier to operate a fleet anywhere in the world. And to do this, it requires highly sophisticated and localized data plus an intimate knowledge of how each country operates.
All of this data is used to gather better insights to make better recommendations on how to more efficiently operate a fleet.
If you’ve ever been curious about how international markets prepare for maintenance, how critical infrastructure around the world plays a massive role in how goods are shipped or wanted to know why a tire company would want to buy a software company, this is your episode.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
Where does a city turn in order to make their roads safer? Who does a private fleet call to improve driving conditions for its drivers?
Because these questions went largely unanswered, a new organization was created to better address solutions for safer roads.
From companies like ABInbev and UPS to city governments, Together for Safer Roads, or TSR for short, is a global coalition on a mission to create safer roads. David Braunstein is the President of TSR and he joins us today to discuss how the organization has been making impacts for decades.
From redesigning roads and intersections, to providing data and data collection systems to improve civil engineering decisions, TSR is playing a part.
David also discusses how TSR funding helps to enable smaller fleets to gain access to new technologies like Machine Vision or In-Cab cameras to help improve driver safety.
And the impacts from these solutions aren’t just local. They are global. Learn more on today’s episode with David Braunstein.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
The Psychology Behind Driver Safety
The Fleet
08/11/21 • 48 min
We are psychologically incapable of putting down the phone.
That might sound horrific, but Dr. Paul Atchley, a Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, has studied human behavior for decades and he’s convinced distracted driving is part of our everyday lives, that people want more entertainment and connectivity options while driving, and most importantly, we as a culture find it acceptable to exhibit these behaviors.
So what can be done?
On this episode of The Fleet, Paul educates us about distracted driving from the perspective of our brain. He explains why we behave the way we do, and how to prevent distraction. He tells stories of international policies that are much more effective at preventing distracted driving accidents and how some cities and private companies are doing it too.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
An Insider’s Perspective: What Decades of Logistics Reporting Tells Us About the Future of Fleets
The Fleet
08/04/21 • 40 min
Driver shortage?
There’s no driver shortage.
So why is the trucking industry having such a hard time filling its open jobs?
According to today’s guest, the cause is not a shortage of drivers, but an abundance of options.
Joining the show is FreightWaves’ Grace Sharkey. FreightWaves is like the Bloomberg of transportation -- they report on all the logistics, trends, and news that fuel the global supply chain.
In today’s conversation, Grace uncovers the abundance of opportunity available to drivers today, and why the antiquated industry is struggling to meet drivers on their terms. She also discusses how she thinks labor wages will roll back and how new innovations will make shipping easier and possibly less expensive. Plus, find out what she thinks happened to her Beyonce facemask that just never arrived and what happens to your goods that just magically disappear in transit.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
06/16/21 • 35 min
Today we have a special guest uniquely positioned to offer both a perspective on driving and on coaching -- Herschel Evans, Safety Trainer and Driver for Yellow Corporation. Herschel was recently awarded Lytx’s 2021 Coach of the Year and was the first-place winner in the For-hire Trucking category. Among countless impressive accomplishments, he has maintained a flawless driving record with over 3 million accident-free miles.
Today, Herschel explains how he got his start as a trucker 33 years ago, why he fell in love with the industry, and how his role has evolved from driver to coach. He tells us his philosophy on coaching, what he looks for when he conducts road tests, and why 3 decades later he still values being on the road more than anything else. Plus, he shares some of the craziest things he’s seen behind the wheel and why safety is always top of mind.
His personal story will give you first-hand insight into the driver’s world and what it takes to recruit and retain drivers for your fleet operations.
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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help.
Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.
Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.
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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Fleet have?
The Fleet currently has 26 episodes available.
What topics does The Fleet cover?
The podcast is about News, Safety, Management, Driving, Business News, Data, Podcasts, Business, Trucking, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
What is the most popular episode on The Fleet?
The episode title 'A Global Perspective on Fleet Management with Raj Bajaj, VP of Webfleet Solutions' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Fleet?
The average episode length on The Fleet is 40 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Fleet released?
Episodes of The Fleet are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The Fleet?
The first episode of The Fleet was released on Oct 21, 2020.
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