Professional Development Forums

Speaker: David Schneiders | Senior Executive – Sales and Operations | Pedders Suspension & Brakes Vehicle weight from accessories, cargo load and towing represents a significant factor in the safety and performance of your vehicle. That’s why Pedders has developed world-first Weight Matrix ™ software to assist in understanding your vehicle weight, each of your tow and load “scenarios” and most importantly the critical impacts of weight. This presentation will explore the reasons why understanding vehicle weight is important and how to keep your fleet and your drivers safe while out on the roads.

Speaker: Steve Ellis | Fleet Operations-Senior Lead | Telstra In 2018 Telstra announced to the market a major overhaul of the company and called it T22. The announcement included the fact that 8500 jobs would be lost over the period of time. In 2019 Telstra announced that the majority of the restructuring would occur in that year – pulling all forward. For the Fleet team this meant the management of 700 surplus vehicles across the Country. Steve Ellis is the National Fleet Lead for Telstra and has been with the Company for 42 years. Steve has a story to tell on the challenges of managing a 11,000 vehicle Fleet down to 8000 in just over a year!

Speaker: Mace Hartley | Executive Director | AfMA Fit for Purpose is done and dusted! You’ve selected the right ANCAP 5 star vehicles for your business and added optional safety features. Perhaps that was the easy part! This workshop will take you through just another day in the mobile workplace.

Speaker: Behyad Jafari | CEO | Electric Vehicle Council Following a huge increase in sales in 2019 compared with previous years the momentum of electric vehicles within Australia is certainly accelerating. But with any change there is going to be teething issues as stakeholders get used to this new wave of technology.

Presented by Mark Harvie | NSW Sales and Operation Manager | Pedders Suspension & Brakes Vehicle weight from accessories, cargo load and towing represents a significant factor in the safety and performance of your vehicle. That’s why Pedders has developed world-first Weight Matrix ™ software to assist in understanding your vehicle weight, each of your tow and load “scenarios” and most importantly the critical impacts of weight. This presentation will explore the reasons why understanding vehicle weight is important and how to keep your fleet and your drivers safe while out on the roads. Click here for presentation notes.

Presented by: Darren Holland | Swinburne University From his experience as the developer, facilitator and assessor of the Diploma of Leadership and Management for Swinburne University and AfMA, Darren will discuss the program, his observations of what makes a successful fleet manager and what challenges have been discussed in the future of fleet management. Click here for presentation notes.

Speaker: Zoran Bravo | Community Engagement Manager | Jet Charge Part of the dilemma with electric vehicles is determining how and where to actually charge them. Tim Washington, founder of JET Charge is here to share details of the JET Charge EV Network alongside a variety of other EV charging solutions. Plus hear what the future of electric vehicle infrastructure looks like within Australia and how you and your organisation can make steps to increase your environmental commitment both now and into the future. Click here for presentation notes

As Victoria heads towards a horrific 2019 road toll, it’s more important than ever for fleets to remain vigilant of safety in the mobile work space. But it should not just be the responsibility of the fleet it should be shared throughout and beyond all organisations. Genuine improvement in safety is something that is always aspired towards but often never fully achieved among many organisations due to a lack of awareness, resources, money, time or worst a lack of willingness to change. When applied properly effective road safety becomes good business. Jerome Carslake will explore a few elements and what it means to genuinely identify road safety elements. These include:

• safe road use – People are at the heart of the safe system approach to road safety.
• safe speeds – A small increase in speed can make a big difference to the seriousness of a crash.
• safe vehicles – safe vehicle choices can have a significant effect of survivability in a crash.
• safe roads – safe roads are designed and built to be more forgiving and account for human error.

And most importantly illustrating how a shared responsibility is about empowering the organisation to use all elements within its control to influence road safety.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn more about road safety and how to better educate your employees on the importance. Presented in Melbourne on 18/07/2019.

With the growing focus on Fleet Management within Local Government and the need to address an increasing number of challenges relating to procurement. staff, risk, costs etc. it is great time to review these challenges and how they relate to local government areas especially with the increasing growth in many rural areas. The presentation will look at the challenges with a specific focus on those related to Rural local governments. It will touch on the way these are addressed and initiatives used. It will also look at the future and some of the challenges which will need to be addressed. Presented in Melbourne on 18/07/2019.

FBT and Accounting: fleet cars simplified approach to calculating car fringe benefits; the log-book method: time to have another look? Presented by Adrian Pennino – Senior Manager and Andrew Burgess – Manager, KPMG. Presented at the Australasian Fleet Management Association’s professional development forum in South Australia, 2016.

Carshare: carshare in Australia and the rest of the world presented by Justin Passaportis – General Manager Victoria and South Australia, GoGet Carshare. Presented at the Australasian Fleet Management Association’s professional development forum in South Australia, 2016.

The Road to Autonomy: the effectiveness of driver assistance systems presented by Professor Ann Williamson – Professor of Aviation Safety, University of New South Wales Transport and Road Safety Research Centre. Presented at the Australasian Fleet Management Association’s professional development forum in New South Wales, 2016.

Work-Related Driving Safety: looking beyond the driver. Presented by Amanda Warmerdam – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University Injury Research Centre. Presented at the Australasian Fleet Management Association professional development forum in Victoria, 2016.

Advanced Safety Systems: a statistical view of driver assist technologies presented by Robert McDonald – Manager, IAG Research Centre. Presented at the Australasian Fleet Management Association professional development forum in New South Wales, 2016.