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July 2011, Business Fleet - Feature

The Green Fleet Price Tag

By Chris Brown

Taking a hard-numbers approach to your vehicles’ tailpipe emissions and lifecycle cost data will help you improve your ecological footprint without breaking the bank.

Tags: Toyota Prius, greenhouse gases, hybrid, green fleets, GHG, smog-forming pollutants, Vincentric, lifecycle costs

September 2009, Business Fleet - Feature

Small Fleets Plugging In

By Chris Brown

All-electric and plug-in hybrid electric work vehicles are on the horizon in configurations that make sense for small fleets.

Tags: hybrid electric vehicles, hybrid, Freightliner, Bright Automotive, Electric Vehicles International, Smith Electric Vehicles

January 2009, Business Fleet - Feature

Fleets Become Electrified

<p>Ed Taylor, owner of Down East Seafood in Bronx, N.Y., received a grant from the Center for Sustainable Energy to purchase the Smith Edison electric truck.</p>

By Chad Simon

These "first adopters" have created a blueprint for other companies on how to green their fleets while staying within budget.

Tags: hybrid, ZAP, electric truck, Smith Electric Vehicles, Cruise Car

January 2009, Business Fleet - Feature

Chevrolet Silverado Repeats As Fleet Truck of the Year

By Chad Simon

Fuel efficiency, low operating costs, user-friendliness, reliability and safety are all features that helped propel the Silverado to its second straight Fleet Truck of the Year title.

Tags: Chevrolet, hybrid, fuel, fuel management

March 2007, Business Fleet - Feature

Could Your Next Work Truck Be a Hybrid?

The Freightliner hybrid prototype integrates the Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) system with hydraulics for electric power takeoff (ePTO) operation.

By Terry Parkhurst

In addition to the environmental benefits, medium- and heavy-duty hybrid truck tests show promise in stop-and-go situations and those that require auxiliary power generation in urban environments. But will costs come down to make them feasible for general use?

Tags: hybrid, work trucks, green truck, Green

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CSA Safety Scores Must Distinguish Between Preventable and Non-Preventable Accidents

By Mike Antich
A growing number of fleets contend that Compliance, Safety & Accountability (CSA) program is in need of substantial improvement. Currently, a fleet’s score in the CSA safety monitoring system is based on all fleet-involved crashes, including those that the company’s driver did not cause and could not reasonably have prevented. This scoring criteria is contrary to accepted industry standards and, in the long run, will undermine the validity of the CSA program in the eyes of covered fleets.

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Business Fleet - September/October 2012

In This Issue:
Here are some of the Highlights:

  • CNG In Fleet
  • How to Create a Safety Culture
  • Managing a Seasonal Fleet
    And much more…