EUFMC 2024
Manufacturers bring their latest equipment to the EUFMC Drive-Thru Demonstration. This year, Elliott Equipment Company featured a digger derrick mounted with a Dakota Bodies line body on a Freightliner chassis.
Officer and a Special Operations Officer. After earning an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, he founded The Program, a team of professionals that teaches organizations how to develop world-class leaders and teams.
In addition to offering key learning points about how great leaders and teams can drive fleet safety improvements, Kapitulik discussed his experiences in the U. S. Marine Corps and his survival of a tragic helicopter crash that killed seven Marines. He also detailed his subsequent efforts to raise money for a college scholarship fund for the children of his deceased teammates by competing in the world’ s toughest endurance races and climbing the world’ s tallest mountains.
Driving Safety, Sustainability and Technical Expertise
Presentations by fleet executives, manufacturers and industry experts during the EUFMC educational program covered a range of topics: what’ s on the horizon for several regulatory impacts that will affect all fleet managers. They also discussed the 2027 emissions updates for trucks and equipment, and the CARB and EPA stance on diesel engines.
• Legislative Update: HillStaffer Senior Advisor Michael Taylor discussed what important legislation is pending in Washington that will affect fleet professionals.
• Safety Performance- Reducing High Energy Hazards: Many fleet managers are implementing strategies to reduce High Energy Serious Injuries and Fatalities. One fleet manager discussed his journey, along with a Q & A.
• EVs- The Next Steps: There was a discussion on what industry leaders
are experiencing with the latest EVs. Cost comparisons to ICE models, user acceptance and many other topics were discussed.
• Electrifying Your Fleet- Charging Challenges for a Sustainable Future: A comprehensive look at the challenges fleet managers are facing to install electric vehicle charging infrastructures.
• Creative Technician Recruitment & Retention: Market challenges are making it difficult for many fleets to recruit and retain technicians. Two fleets discussed how they are combating this trend and offered solutions from a military perspective.
• Roundtables: This EUFMC signature event featured fleet representatives and suppliers discussing mutual challenges and finding solutions.
EUFMC hosted its second annual Women in Utility Fleet gathering in 2024. This year, more than 20 women fleet professionals who were registered to attend the conference were invited. Plans for the networking event in 2024 included building on ideas from last year’ s attendees, who found discussions about fleet and career topics, and ways women in the industry have overcome challenges very valuable.
EUFMC will be held June 1 through June 4, 2025, at the Williamsburg Lodge and Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia. For more information, visit www. eufmc. com.
• Mutual Assistance Strategies: Hurricanes, ice storms, windstorms and gas emergencies! A group of fleet managers discussed mutual assistance strategies they’ ve experienced firsthand in recent years.
• Fleet Management 2.0- AI: An investigation of the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence and what a fleet professional needs to embrace.
• Navigating Regulatory Shifts- CARB and EPA Updates for Truck Engine Standards: A panel of medium- and The EUFMC equipment show was the site of more than 60 displays, including this Altec telescopic heavy-duty truck experts discussed boom truck crane on a Peterbilt chassis.
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