DeliveryCon Proclaims Opening Keynote – Fleet Administration

Out of all transportation sectors and fleet varieties, the one altering the quickest is supply. Fleet operators tasked with getting items and other people to the place they should go are topic to the sharp fluctuations of the $800 billion e-commerce market, along with managing provide chain, inflation, and workforce disruptions. 

The opening keynote deal with for DeliveryCon, convening Oct. 16-18 in Las Vegas, will share insights into how supply fleet operators — from last-mile contractors to company fleets — can regulate to satisfy these challenges.  

Within the seminar “The Altering Position of Fleets in At the moment’s Supply & Logistics Markets” a blue-ribbon panel will focus on points round provide chains, gasoline costs and driver wages, car selection and pricing, and components and labor prices and shortages, together with pressures reminiscent of same-day deliveries and tighter supply home windows.

They’ll look at these points by a fleet lens, offering methods for better uptime and extra environment friendly fleet operations.

The panel consists of Grace Bay, CEO of Patton Logistics and Whats up Truck Lease; Dan McDonough, director of operations for Auto Park Fleet; Jeb Lopez, CEO and proprietor of Wheelz Up; and Tony Rimas, enterprise companion with Autotech Ventures.

Toni Tovi, founder and president of Vibrant Flag Recruiting, will average the panel. 

Bay comes from a fleet background as the previous COO of Patton Logistics’ complete operation of FedEx Floor routes throughout 10 states. Bay brings firsthand expertise overseeing a number of layers of administration and lots of of drivers, and he or she’s used that have to teach FedEx contractors on find out how to handle a number of operational eventualities.

McDonough’s profession within the automotive business spans 41 years with automobile dealerships, physique corporations, and different automotive-related companies. McDonough helped to develop Auto Park Fleet into the biggest dealership within the nation serving parcel supply fleets.

Lopez began Wheelz Up with two second-hand vans as a neighborhood courier service delivering auto components to dealerships and automotive corporations. Featured on CNBC’s “Blue Collar Millionaires” program, Lopez serves numerous supply verticals, together with as an Amazon supply service companion, with over 300 vans and 330 workers in 5 states.

Rimas brings a variety of expertise in lots of segments of the automotive business, together with retail, monetary providers, aftermarket, and fleet providers. The current CEO of Restore OnDemand, Rimas was additionally the co-founder and managing companion of FM Capital, the place he led and managed many disruptive automotive investments.  

Tovi will average the panel. Earlier than founding Vibrant Flag, which specializes within the last-mile supply area, Tovi managed 4 separate FedEx Floor operations concurrently. A social media influencer in trucking, delivery, and logistics, Tovi often speaks at business occasions.  

“This panel defines the time period ‘blue ribbon,’” mentioned Chris Brown, convention chair. “The panelists are high of their fields within the seller, operator, provider, and monetary sectors of the market. Come be part of us in Vegas to listen to their distinctive views and what actually issues for fleets on this ever-changing world.”

The opening keynote will happen at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

About DeliveryCon

In affiliation with Automotive Fleet, Work Truck, and Heavy Obligation Trucking, DeliveryCon options keynotes, training periods, an expo corridor, and networking with the purpose to assist supply fleets uncover new efficiencies, instruments, and applied sciences to maintain their wheels on the street. 

DeliveryCon is for supply fleets of every kind. Excessive-mileage fleets are additionally inspired to attend, reminiscent of passenger shuttle providers, grocery and refrigerated transport, franchised providers, and beverage distribution. 

The inaugural DeliveryCon will happen Oct. 16-18 on the Virgin Inns in Las Vegas. Registration is open now. 

DeliveryCon’s instructional seminars and speaker lineup will delve into subjects round: 

• car procurement, spec’ing & upfitting
• preventive upkeep & repairs
• routing & logistics
• driver hiring & retention
• car & driver security
• components procurement 
• electrification & new applied sciences
• order-to-delivery occasions 
• technicians & drivers
• operational prices & TCO
• tire administration 
• remarketing
• and extra

“For supply fleets, uptime is every little thing — but reaching uptime is tougher on this period of provide chain disruptions, parts-ordering delays, elongated order-to-delivery occasions, and restricted car availability,” mentioned Brown. 

“DeliveryCon will zero in on these challenges. Attendees will convey again actual options to allow peak efficiency of their fleets and maintain their drivers secure and productive. Come be part of us in October!

Initially posted on Automotive Fleet