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Reducing emissions on the conventional fleet

NTEA's whitepaper, Reducing emissions on the conventional fleet, highlights key factors in mitigating the environmental impacts of today’s truck fleets. NTEA’s Chris Lyon and Aeroz-America’s Mike Visser offer perspective...

May 23, 2025

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Reducing fleet costs: Optimizing the human factor

While commercial fleet design considerations often include technology integration, acquisition costs, job performance, and long-term operating costs, one element often forgotten is the human factor. This step is key to...

April 26, 2023

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Designing the optimal fleet

Getting a job done using the right tools is always the most efficient path. When it comes to fleet composition, having appropriate tools becomes a game changer for controlling costs and allowing operations to run at peak...

June 22, 2020

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Reducing emissions on the conventional fleet

May 23, 2025

Fleet

Reducing fleet costs: Optimizing the human factor

April 26, 2023

Total Cost of Ownership

Fleet

Designing the optimal fleet

June 22, 2020

Fleet

Understanding vocational expense

Specialized vehicles are complex and expensive. Often costs are not understood, and organizations resort to less expensive options to get the job done. Life cycle costing is an important tool for fleet managers to...

November 13, 2019

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Designing for reliability: How to make your vehicles outlast rigors of the work environment

Fleet managers and procurement teams are charged with designing reliable, functional work trucks capable of undergoing the stresses of the vocational market and occupational work environment.

January 18, 2019

Fleet

Lowering bottom-line costs while keeping your trucks

One challenge within the work truck industry is continuing to find ways to reduce bottom-line costs. As a spec' writer, you have taken the care and research to design a work truck accounting for acquisition fees...

September 18, 2018

Fleet

Cost-saving vehicles without sacrificing performance

As fleet managers, we often come up with creative approaches to achieve the demands for work truck designs. Often, we need outside-the-box solutions to meet the challenge of designing a vehicle to accomplish more at a...

July 14, 2017

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Assessing your fleet's needs — From cost control to improving operational efficiencies

How do fleet managers measure operational needs? Several approaches help quantify necessary functional requirements while filtering out end-user operator demands often communicated as needs.

February 10, 2017

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