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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•November 17, 2015

How Will New Lease Accounting Rules Affect Small Fleets?

The move to put lease obligations on the balance sheet brings up questions on whether the change would affect a company’s ability to borrow money, its financial statements and the accounting of closed- and open-end leases.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•November 11, 2015

Why the Optimism in Car Rental?

Attendees of the 2015 Auto Rental Summit conveyed a uniformly positive outlook. In the face of the many industry threats these days, what’s up?

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•November 4, 2015

Uber Vehicles and Open Recalls

New transportation modes may have built a better mousetrap, but they shouldn’t get a pass when it comes to safety.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•October 14, 2015

When Market Engineering Goes Bad, Again

The bankruptcy of the Haggen grocery chain shows the FTC hasn’t learned its lesson.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•September 30, 2015

Will VW’s Diesel Scandal Affect Values of Its Gas Models?

While brand damage is too often guided by fickle retail perception, fleet buyers and sellers — those who have been around the block in the industry — have a more tempered view of potential impacts.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•September 14, 2015

Should Auto Recalls Be Delineated by Severity?

Analyzing recall data gets us closer to an answer.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•August 27, 2015

Can Alt Fuels Survive the Era of Low-Priced Gas?

Before jumping in, fleets considering alternative fuels or power must define their use cases and tailor them to the solution more than ever before.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•August 24, 2015

Implications of Auto Manufacturers Renting Cars

Should car rental companies be worried?

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•August 12, 2015

Six Must-Haves to Prevail as an Independent Rental Company

You can’t run a car rental business with the idea that you’re going to simply “rent cars.”

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•July 30, 2015

An Unusual Fleet Safety Story

A rural power co-op needed a way for a lineman to call for help should an emergency situation arise. Five months later, the solution was put to good use.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•July 29, 2015

This is the Auto Rental Summit Manifesto

To understand what Auto Rental Summit is, what it’s not and what it can be, read this.

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Auto Focus•by Chris Brown•July 17, 2015

John Tague and the New Hertz

Today’s conference call was the debutant ball for Hertz’s new CEO, in which he set the company’s direction on regaining market share, fixing Dollar and Thrifty, the threat from Uber, Hertz’s exit from carsharing, prepaid rentals and more.

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