AfMA Fleetdrive Issue 15 | Page 12

Increase your knowledge and network with leading experts WORDS BY DANIEL BRAID D on’t blink twice. That date on your desktop calendar is correct. February has arrived and with Christmas and New Year behind us hopefully you’ve had a chance to catch up on some much need R&R and hopefully some treasured time with your family and friends. And if you’re super disciplined maybe you’re even one of the small percentage who are still going strong in sticking with your New Year’s Resolution. But now you’re back in the office, thinking ahead to what you want your 2019 professional year to be can seem a little daunting. Naturallyl it’s important to plan out what your goals and objectives are for the year ahead and how you hope to achieve them. For many of us it could be an expansion of your fleet size due to organisational growth and development, or maybe it could be cutting back and attempting to do more in your role with less money, resources or time at your disposal. A common trend among many of our members has been how to introduce hybrids or full EVs into your fleets, and for others the bottom line of their role is finding ways to better monitor driver performance and efficiency through telematics. As a peak industry body the AfMA charter is to promote Fleet Management as a profession in its own right, to provide knowledge, information and resources to our Members and to lobby and advocate on behalf of the fleet industry and we hope to continue doing that throughout this year. So whatever your background is in fleet management or the automotive sector in general, the upcoming 2019 Fleet Conference & Exhibition is a chance to not only network but to deepen your overall knowledge. As you can see on the following page there is a wide scope of content planned across three big days this May and we encourage you all as members, contacts, and friends of AfMA to all join us for what will hopefully be our biggest and best conference yet. “Our annual conference is designed to highlight the road ahead including technology and government policy whilst providing educational sessions designed to create a knowledge transfer between experts and practitioners” Mace Hartley, AfMA Executive Director 12 ISSUE 15 2018 / WWW.AFMA.NET.AU