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JUNE 2020 Archive

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 JUNE 2020 utilityfleetprofessional.com

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The ABCs of Grounding Mobile Equipment

| Jim Vaughn, CUSP |
Across our industry, I have found all kinds of policies for grounding trucks. I also have found that in many cases, employers’ rules for grounding trucks are not based on OSHA requirements and – even more concerning – are not based on sound principles of protection. I believe the grounding policies are well intentioned, but […]
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New Developments to Watch in Telematics

| Sean M. Lyden |
The fleet telematics industry has come a long way since 2000, when Geotab’s (www.geotab.com) executive vice president of sales and marketing, Colin Sutherland, joined the Ontario, Canada-based telematics company. “Back then, [telematics] was all about collecting data on board the vehicle itself and, in many cases, having to manually transfer that data to a computing […]
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Flattening the Curve? The State of Transportation Electrification During a Pandemic

| Sean M. Lyden |
A perfect storm of geopolitical forces flooding the world’s oil supply and COVID-19 causing global governments to temporarily shut down their economies has precipitated a steep drop in gasoline and diesel prices in recent weeks. So, what does this mean for the electric vehicle market? After all, conventional wisdom says that cheap gas will put […]
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Selecting the Right Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for Your Fleet

| Grace Suizo |
From automatic braking and lane-keeping assist to adaptive cruise control, backup cameras and parking sensors, there are quite a few advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to choose from today. So, how do you decide which ones are best for your fleet vehicles? UFP recently spoke with Dale Collins, fleet services supervisor for Virginia-based Fairfax Water, […]
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Spec’ing ATUVs for Optimal Performance and Safety

| Sandy Smith |
Cooperative Energy, which generates and transmits energy to 11 member systems in Mississippi, recently doubled its line crews to four. It’s no surprise, then, that they’ve “had to have more equipment,” according to Wayne Owens, the company’s fleet maintenance supervisor. Serving 55 of Mississippi’s 82 counties, Cooperative Energy crews must deal with hills, hollows and […]
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Where Sustainability Meets Service: Finding the Right Fit for EVs in Utility Fleets

| Max Chesnes |
For several years, Joe Korn, a truck and alternative fuel consultant with ARI’s (www.arifleet.com) business intelligence and analytics team, has been working with some of the company’s North American customers to implement alternative fuel strategies. One of his priorities is to provide fleet expertise to clients aiming to bridge the gap between internal combustion engines […]
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Does Your Fleet Need a Data Analyst?

| Gary L. Wollenhaupt |
When Nebraska Public Power District added telematics capabilities to 200 of its work trucks, a few surprises lurked in the early reports. The data showed the work trucks spent much more time idling than anecdotal evidence from drivers and fleet managers had suggested, according to Matt Gilliland, director of operations for the largest public utility […]
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Shop Talk: Developing Your Continuity of Operations Plan in a COVID-19 World

| Sean M. Lyden |
If you were to lose one-third of your workforce in the fleet department at any given time due to COVID-19, what would your continuity of operations plan look like? What adjustments would you make? Dale Collins, fleet services supervisor at Fairfax Water, which serves nearly 2 million customers in Northern Virginia, began posing these “wargaming” […]
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Becoming a Steady, Highly Effective Leader in Uncertain Times

| Sean M. Lyden |
In his “Meditations” nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius gave us a powerful picture of what it looks like to be a leader during a crisis. He wrote, “To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” As […]
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