A Study on the Impact of Fleet Management on

ISBN-13: 9783847327226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 60 str.

Marian Tukuta;Moretime Nkhosa;Marian Tukuta

Opis

This research study sought to evaluate the impact of fleet management as a competitive tool in the Zimbabwean Road Haulage Industry for the reference of further improvement of Transport Companies in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwes Haulage Sector has high level of inefficiency and ineffectiveness in its fleet management. This inefficiency is mainly caused by poor vehicle maintenance, poor briefing and debriefing of drivers, routing and scheduling, fuel management and unavailability of vehicle financing reserves.Due to the shrinking competitiveness of Zimbabwes Haulage Industry in the SADC region, this research aims; To identify the variables of fleet management in the road haulage industry To determine the impact of fleet management as a competitive tool in the haulage industry To identify the road haulage drawbacks. To establish ways of improving the effectiveness of fleet management in the Zimbabwean Haulage Industry. Descriptive survey was used in this study with the aim of discovering peoples knowledge, preferences, opinions and views of fleet management in the Haulage Industry of Zimbabwe.

O autorze

Dr. Marian Tukuta holds a Dphil in DevelopmentStudies (University of Fort Hare, S.A.), Masters inBusiness Administration (ZOU), Bachelor of BusinessStudies (Hons) (University of Zimbabwe), Diploma inInformation Technology, Diploma in PersonnelManagement (IPMZ), Cert in Supply ChainManagement and Cert. in Inventory Management.