For David Wade, group director for supply chain at ADT Security Services, Boca Raton, Fla., one turning point in managing his 7,000 vehicles and their costs was transforming a transactional relationship with his fleet management company into “a more collaborative, strategic relationship based on a multi-year horizon.”
Then there is Bob Stoffel, who, until he retired, was a logistics “big daddy” over a work fleet of more than 94,000 ground vehicles. He instituted a now iconic strategy at UPS to save gas money: turn right, not left, at intersections, no matter which way you are heading. It turns out, pun intended, that idling motors are the devil’s tool impacting mileage and productivity when left-leaning driver and truck must wait for a light to change or oncoming traffic to pass.