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"For more than a decade, NAFA had been touting its 'strength in diversity' mantra. We as an association are stronger, better, and more equipped for the future than any other organization or entity precisely because of our diversity -- from corporate fleets to government fleets, law enforcement fleets to university fleets, and everything in between. Large fleets and small fleets. Centralized and de-centralized. Local and national. Leased and owned. Sedans, trucks, vans, semis, off-road equipment, and just about anything else with a motor and wheels. They all have a home at NAFA."
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So, what made the 2015 Southern Regional NAFA Conference, hosted by NAFA's Alabama Chapter, such a success? According to NAFA Central Region Trustee Sandy Leonard, lots of preparation and ambition went into the event which took place October 4-6 in Orange Beach, Alabama.
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NAFA's Chapters will soon begin the holiday chapter meeting rollout for 2015. Check out what's currently scheduled across the NAFA Chapter landscape!
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Want more people at your next NAFA Chapter meeting? Recaps and previews of meetings in NAFAConnection can help boost attendance! All it takes is a few minutes to submit information and the entire membership will know about the great work you're doing.
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In mid-October, NAFA Fleet Management Association President Ruth Alfson, CAFM® appointed Phil Moser as Safety Advisory Council Affiliate Vice Chair. Moser is Vice President with safety training providers Advanced Driver Training Services (ADTS). He succeeds Katherine Croze, National Sales Manager for Government Fleet Market for The CEI Group, who stepped down in August.
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In mid-October, NAFA Fleet Management Association President Ruth Alfson, CAFM ® appointed Sara Burnam, CAFM ®, Assistant Director of Fleet Management, Palm Beach County, Florida as I&E Arrangements Committee Vice Chair. Burnam will be instrumental in the arrangements for NAFA's 2017 Institute & Expo (I&E), which will take place in Tampa, Florida.
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NAFA’s CAFM ®/S Boot Camp can help prepare you if you're interested in the individual certificate of your choice; so if you're looking to get your Risk Management certificate this upcoming year, enroll for this week's Boot Camp webinar: Risk Management – November 4 & 5!
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All new to the February session of NAFA's Essentials Of Fleet Management (EFMS) is the expert forum so that you can ask and learn from four fleet professionals with more than 150 years of fleet management experience combined! They will discuss topics, answer questions, and share fleet management insights with you. In addition, the EFMS will now address for the first-time ever the 11 essential practices of fleet management!
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Get ready for NAFA's latest edition of the 2015 webinar series, Ignoring Driver Safety is Risky Business: Best Practices in Driver Risk Management. The webinar takes place Wednesday, November 18, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Eastern time). NAFA webinars are free for NAFA members!
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NAFA’s individual certificates of completion offer education that is targeted to individual fleet disciplines. Fleet professionals can enroll in only the courses of study they require for their work situation. Enrolling in as many or as few programs as they need gives the student empowerment with regard to the time they spend in study. NAFA’s certificate program also helps develop advanced fleet knowledge should the student decide to pursue the separate Certified Automotive Fleet Management (CAFM ®) designation later.
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Stay tuned to NAFA's various communications in the coming weeks! NAFA's 2016 I&E registration is opening soon. A limited-time offer will be sent your way very soon for being a NAFA member!
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The Fleet Excellence Awards (or FLEXYs) are open to every fleet management professional regardless of whether or not they are current members of NAFA Fleet Management Association. The 2016 Fleet Excellence Awards will be awarded on April 19, 2016 at NAFA's Institute & Expo in Austin, Texas.
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NAFA's Institute & Expo means education that is designed to meet your specific fleet needs. Need proof? Inside is a small sampling of the hot-button topics affecting fleet right now and being discussed at NAFA's Institute & Expo, April 19-22 in Austin, Texas! Registration at http://www.nafainstitute.org opens very soon!
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"We set out to eliminate the excuses of people from blaming government, oil companies, automakers and, ultimately, their ancestors for the lack of sustainable transportation," Rathwell says of the cross-country charging network. "That’s why we electrified the entire Trans-Canada Highway. If the longest highway in the world can be electrified, what can’t be?"
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Donna Setaro is the Founder of the Move Over Awareness Campaign in New Jersey, and has given over 450 presentations regarding the Move Over law to over 55,000 people. "Most presentations I give are to an audience of around 300 people. On average, less than 15 percent in that audience are aware of the existence of Move Over laws." Donna Setaro will be a keynote speaker at NAFA's 2016 Institute & Expo, April 19-22 in Austin, Texas.
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Neither NAFA, nor the Institute & Expo (I&E) have any relationship with companies called either Global Housing Corp. or Exhibitor Housing Services, and they have no right to use NAFA's name or iconography for any reason. If you are contacted by Exhibitor Housing Services or Global Housing Corp. do NOT give any of your personal or financial data.
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David said earning his CAFM ® certification was a goal he insisted upon meeting before he retired. At September's Canadian CAFM ® Boot Camp, that's exactly what he did. How he did it, on the other hand, was unique. Only two people have passed all eight of the fleet modules that comprise the program in a single setting. While that was not to be for David, he did the next best thing: he passed half of the tests before the Boot Camp began, and passed the other half afterward.
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Fall is here! Find out about the chapter meetings you will want to be a part of. Details inside!
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NAFA Utilizes Member Case Studies to Make Case for Key Tax Extensions, NAFA Submits Comments to NHTSA on Takata Recalls, NHTSA Considers Rule Mandating Collision-Avoidance Systems, House Passes Highway Patch; Continues Work on Multi-year Bill, House Multi-year Highway Bill Calls for Marijuana Study; Criticizes DOT for Delays, and Hearing Held to Address Vehicle Safety in Rapidly Changing Landscape.
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Supreme Court Rules British Columbia’s Drunk Driving Laws Constitutional and Toyota Vehicle Recalls For Window Defect.
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Forge new relationships and strengthen partnerships on the Expo floor while gaining new clients and prospects for your business! The Expo floor of NAFA's 2016 I&E (Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas) is the biggest and the best in fleet.
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Last month, The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a bipartisan bill to spend up to $325 billion on transportation projects over the next six years while Congress scrambled to prevent a loss of infrastructure spending at the end of October.
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Japanese tire maker Bridgestone Corp said it would buy auto parts retailer Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack for $835 million in cash to expand its presence in the United States. The $15-per-share deal represents a premium of 23.5 percent to Pep Boys' October 23 closing price of $12.15.
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Payment processing company WEX plans to buy the Utah-based Electronic Funds Source LLC, its largest-ever acquisition that company officials said will expand its core business of payment processing for commercial vehicle fleets. The company said it would buy competitor EFS for $1.1 billion in cash and 4 million shares to be distributed to investment funds affiliated with EFS owner Warburg Pincus.
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Ignition switch and airbag problems have been responsible for some of the biggest recalls of the past year – and they’re now being blamed for a pair of new recalls at General Motors. In both cases, however, the problems are different from those that have led to earlier big recalls. But one of the two new announcements suggests that Japanese supplier Takata’s problems could be growing worse.
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Volkswagen almost inevitably will have to compensate owners of diesel cars equipped with emissions-rigging software. Some legal experts say the automaker could be forced to buy back the cars altogether. Many of the more than 200 lawsuits filed in the past few weeks allege that for seven years VW marketed four-cylinder diesel Golfs, Jettas, Beetles, and Passats as clean alternatives to gas engines, knowing all along that the cars were spewing pollution that far exceeded legal limits.
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NAFA welcomes more than 50 new Members and Affiliates into the Association. Thank you for making NAFA your association!
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NAFA thanks Stephen Levine; Kevin Fareri, CAFM ®; and Charles Gibbens for their years with the Association! It is the strength of our members that have helped make NAFA the strongest association in fleet management today.
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If you were certified in the past but let your certification lapse, we want you back! If you started the certification program and did not complete it within the assigned window, we want to help you succeed! Find out how to make your CAFM ® efforts work for you again! All the details are in this article.
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NAFA Member Jonathan Kamanns, winner of the 2014 FLEXY Award for Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Fleet Management, has been named Supplier Relationship Management Director at Ingersoll Rand. The promotion finds former Senior Fleet and Safety Specialist and NAFA Member Dean Dunton, PMP, promoted to the vacated position of Fleet and Safety Manager for North America.
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Green Car Journal recently announced the finalists for its 2016 Green Car of the Year award. No diesels made the cut, but it’s not all hybrids, either: The gas-powered Honda Civic and Hyundai Sonata are in the running. Naturally, the three other contenders are the major names that always come up in green car discussions: the Chevy Volt, the Audi A3 E-Tron, and the Toyota Prius.
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Over the course of the last 10 years, corn ethanol has been lauded as being a bridge fuel solution that could reduce air pollution and increase national energy security in the U.S., and production of corn ethanol has gone from 4 billion gallons per year in 2005 to some 14.3 billion gallons per year in 2014. But corn ethanol hasn’t lived up to its promise as being a cleaner and more environmentally friendly fuel choice.
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Owners of vehicles with advanced fuel-saving technology and digital multimedia systems, including the Tesla Model S sedan, are hurting reliability, Consumer Reports magazine found in its annual survey of vehicle reliability. "There is 'an emerging trend of increased troubles' with many vehicles that use new transmission technology to boost mileage," the magazine said on October 20. The latest reliability survey was presented by the magazine's editors at a meeting of Detroit's Automotive Press Association.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) plans to invest one-third of its annual fleet purchases in electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles over the next five years, totaling more than $100 million. The company currently dedicates about 15 percent of its fleet budget to plug-in electric technology, many times the five-year industry average of 1.7 percent.
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One of the most important facets of fleet management is the ability to conduct a lifecycle cost analysis. Unfortunately, for many fleet managers, this can also be one of the most difficult aspects of the job. Thanks to NAFA's Lifecycle Cost Analysis For Fleets, fleet managers can learn all they need to know about lifecycle cost analysis in just three hours! Visit the NAFA Store now!
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NAFA's Emergency Operations Manual is specifically written for fleet managers! This "how-to" guide provides step-by step instructions to develop an effective emergency operations plan and is a must-have when events become unpredictable.
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How does lifecycle cost analysis help quantify the decision-making process for determining when a piece of equipment needs replacing? How can you use benchmarking principles to ensure your fleet operates at its optimum? NAFA’s Financial Management Guide examines these questions and more!
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Last chance to enroll for this week's Boot Camp webinar: Risk Management – November 4 & 5, 2015 - Click to register now!
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