Commercial fleet managers share, in their own words, how their jobs have changed since assuming their positions and how they envision their positions and responsibilities evolving in the coming years. Here’s what they told us.
Is Technology 'Dumbing Down' Fleet Managers?
While technology has transformed fleet management to a science, it has also created the risk that, ultimately, technology may “dumb down” fleet managers. In the past, fleet managers would personally perform the calculations and engage in the “cerebral sweat” to accomplish almost all fleet functions. Nowadays (and increasingly so in the future), sophisticated fleet management systems perform these calculations and analyses with the fleet manager only seeing the end result, not the prrocess.