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The proof is in the data: How fleets can use data to their advantage

Sheer data is no good to you on its own. You need to understand what you can do with it, and the ways in which it can help your fleet.

Alex Crissey
By Alex Crissey
Contributing Editor Alex Crissey has been with Fleet Equipment since 2015.
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Today’s average fleet has an absolute ton of data streaming off of all of their trucks. But sheer data is no good to you on its own. You need to understand what you can do with it, and the ways in which it can help your fleet.

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I had a chance to talk to Steven White, associate vice president of commercial enterprise sales at Geotab, right when his company was coming off a bevy of announcements at its Geotab Connect event in Las Vegas. He talked to us about nuclear verdicts, forward-facing and driver-facing cameras, and more ways fleets can effectively use their data.

Watch the video above to see what he had to say.

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