Mace Hartley, Author at AfMA

Fleet Management News

Scholarship Winners Announced for AfMA’s Diploma of Leadership & Management

AfMA offers several paid scholarships for our industry’s Diploma of Leadership & Management (contextualised for the Fleet and Automotive industries) which is facilitated by Swinburne University. AfMA’s corporate partners, Geotab,…

Mace HartleyJanuary 29, 2025

Fleet Management

25 Years of Delivering Quality & Customer Satisfaction

Congratulations Summit Fleet on 25 years in the Australian fleet leasing and management industry. Milestones like this provide an opportunity to recognise those who’ve contributed to the longevity of the…

Mace HartleyMarch 9, 2023

News

AfMA Diploma Becoming a Requirement for Employers

In 2017 the Australasian Fleet Management Association (AfMA) worked with Swinburne University to develop a Diploma of Leadership & Management that’s contextualised for the fleet and automotive industries. This Diploma…

Mace HartleyDecember 2, 2022

Electric Vehicles News

Industrial Action a likely Outcome Due to FBT Free EV’s

On Friday 25th November the EV Discount Bill was passed providing an exemption from Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) from 1st July 2022 for electric vehicles (BEV), hydrogen fuel cell vehicles…

Mace HartleyDecember 2, 2022

Electric Vehicles Fleet Management

Unintended Consequences of FBT Free EV’s

FBT can cost a business almost 20% of a vehicle’s purchase cost annually if the vehicle is used privately. In July 2022 the Government introduced its Electric Car Discount Bill…

Mace HartleyNovember 3, 2022

Electric Vehicles

Evenergi Launches Quarterly Zero Emissions Bus, Truck and Van Report

Migrating Australia's fleets is the most important thing we can do as a country to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles. AfMA was proud to partner with organisations including Evenergi…

Mace HartleySeptember 9, 2021

Safety

What does it take to create a Safe Mobile Workplace? (Part 3)

To recap from Part 1 and 2, I’ve covered the ingredients & recipe for creating a safe mobile workplace and covered the first two ingredients: - Fit-for-purpose 5 star vehicle…

Mace HartleyJuly 23, 2021

Safety

What does it take to create a Safe Mobile Workplace? (Part 2)

To quickly recap from last week, I talked about the ingredients for creating a Safe Mobile Workplace include: - Fit-for-purpose 5 star vehicle Driver vehicle induction Driver policies Compliance process,…

Mace HartleyJuly 16, 2021

Electric Vehicles

Victoria led the way in EV Uptake in 2020

Woohoo, Victoria win’s and EV uptake across Australia increased by a whopping 59% in 2020, but let’s not get too excited as EVs only represent around 0.7% of new vehicles…

Mace HartleyJuly 9, 2021

News

No more than 5km to drive to the next ultra-fast EV Charger!

That’s what planned for households and businesses right across Sydney as part of NSW Government’s comprehensive NSW Electric Vehicle Strategy launched last month. The announcement included building a world-class electric…

Mace HartleyJuly 9, 2021