Real freedom isn’t parked in your driveway. It arrives there when you need it to.

This week on The Fleet, Chris Brandt sits down with Sampo Hietanen, founder of MaaS Global and Aspectu, and the original mind behind Mobility as a Service. Together, they explore how MaaS is transforming not just transportation, but the entire fabric of urban life. Where fleets, data, and design come together to move people more intelligently and sustainably.

Hietanen explains how the shift from ownership to access could redefine personal freedom, reduce inefficiency, and unlock the full potential of shared mobility as this episode dives deep into a simple but radical truth: the future of movement isn’t about owning more… It's about moving better.

Key Moments:

00:00 Sampo Hietanen Defines Mobility As A Service

01:08 Rethinking Car Ownership Freedom

03:18 Ownership Problems and Shared Mobility Solutions

08:13 How Cities Will Drive the Mobility Revolution

13:31 The Future of Autonomous Fleets

17:51 Developing Regions Will Leapfrog Traditional Transit

23:36 Modern Transportation Starts Luxury Not Utility

33:43 MaaS Redefines Efficiency Past Transportation

40:04 Safety, Automation, and the MaaS Human Factor

46:35 Mobility as a Service Ecosystem

50:38 Mobility as a Service Policies

51:39 Embracing the Future Freedoms of MaaS

If your organization depends on a fleet of vehicles, it’s time to think about your fleet as a strategic asset. Element delivers end-to-end solutions that reduce costs, improve productivity and support sustainability goals.

From vehicle acquisition to electrification and everything in between, Element’s data-driven approach helps organizations optimize performance and keep their drivers safe and supported on the road. To learn more about how Element can move your fleet forward, visit elementfleet.com.

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Should we be preparing for the autonomous electric fleet revolution… or has it already arrived?

Chris sits down with Dr. Sven Beiker (Silicon Valley Mobility; ex-BMW, Stanford CARS, McKinsey) to cut through hype and explain where EVs and AVs actually stand — and what it will take to scale them.

You’ll hear why the “gold rush” era of autonomy is over, what’s working shockingly well (hello, robo-taxis?), and why the real bottleneck is systems change: charging reliability, “machine-readable roads,” policy frameworks, and industry standards.

We also dive deep on the fleet advantage — how professional operations, tighter use cases, and better utilization can unlock the biggest near-term wins in safety, uptime, and cost.

If you want to stay up-to-date on fleet management directly from industry-leading experts, hit subscribe and share with someone working on fleet electrification or autonomy.

Key Moments:

00:00 Dr. Sven Beiker

04:04 Current State of Electrification and Autonomy

06:40 Challenges in Infrastructure and Standardization

18:33 Public Perception and Safety Concerns

25:09 Future of Fleet Vehicles

27:05 Fleet Operations and Infrastructure

30:42 Hydrogen vs. Electric Vehicles

37:25 Global Advances in Battery Technology

40:51 Adoption of Autonomous Technology in Fleets

47:53 Expert Advice for Fleet Managers

If your organization depends on a fleet of vehicles, it’s time to think about your fleet as a strategic asset. Element delivers end-to-end solutions that reduce costs, improve productivity and support sustainability goals.

From vehicle acquisition to electrification and everything in between, Element’s data-driven approach helps organizations optimize performance and keep their drivers safe and supported on the road. To learn more about how Element can move your fleet forward, visit elementfleet.com.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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The road ahead for fleet management is changing fast — and this is your first look. Get a glimpse of the big questions host Chris Brandt will be tackling with industry-leaders, including:

• How will electrification and autonomous vehicles transform your operations? 
• What new risks and opportunities will global supply chains, AI, and connected vehicles create? 
• And what strategies will fleet leaders need to stay ahead? ‘

From success stories to emerging technologies, The Fleet is here to help you navigate what’s next. New episodes release every other Tuesday. Subscribe now and get ready for the journey.

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What does it take to be nominated as Driver of the Year? 6,000,000 accident-free miles in a career is a good start.

Jan Quarnberg is a driver for Barney Trucking and was recently selected as a Lytx Driver of the Year. He’s been a professional truck driver for over 40 years and has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Lytx/DriveCam Good Driving Award and the Glen Barney Haul of Fame award. In the 6,000,000 miles that he’s driven, Quarnberg has never been involved in an accident and has never had any driving violations -- an incredibly impressive record.

On this show, we talk to all kinds of managers, executives, and industry thought leaders, but rarely do we get to sit down with a driver doing the hard work every day. In today’s conversation, Jan shares with us how he got into trucking, what his day-to-day looks like, and his thoughts on safe driving. Plus, he shares some of the craziest things he’s seen on the road in his career.

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Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

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For much of our show, we’ve focused on our market here in the United States, but what about the rest of the world?

Fleet Managers that get assigned to international markets quickly learn just how different other countries operate compared to the United States. 

Size of roads, availability of refueling stations, access to repairs and maintenance, laws and regulations, traffic density, and accessways, it’s endless, the myriad of systems in play around the world. 

Meet Raj Bajaj, Vice President for Webfleet Solutions International, a Bridgestone Tire company. They are on a mission to make it easier to operate a fleet anywhere in the world. And to do this, it requires highly sophisticated and localized data plus an intimate knowledge of how each country operates. 

All of this data is used to gather better insights to make better recommendations on how to more efficiently operate a fleet. 

If you’ve ever been curious about how international markets prepare for maintenance, how critical infrastructure around the world plays a massive role in how goods are shipped or wanted to know why a tire company would want to buy a software company, this is your episode.

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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help. 

Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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Where does a city turn in order to make their roads safer? Who does a private fleet call to improve driving conditions for its drivers? 

Because these questions went largely unanswered, a new organization was created to better address solutions for safer roads.

From companies like ABInbev and UPS to city governments, Together for Safer Roads, or TSR for short, is a global coalition on a mission to create safer roads. David Braunstein is the President of TSR and he joins us today to discuss how the organization has been making impacts for decades. 

From redesigning roads and intersections, to providing data and data collection systems to improve civil engineering decisions, TSR is playing a part.

David also discusses how TSR funding helps to enable smaller fleets to gain access to new technologies like Machine Vision or In-Cab cameras to help improve driver safety. 

And the impacts from these solutions aren’t just local. They are global. Learn more on today’s episode with David Braunstein.

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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help. 

Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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We are psychologically incapable of putting down the phone. 

That might sound horrific, but Dr. Paul Atchley, a Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, has studied human behavior for decades and he’s convinced distracted driving is part of our everyday lives, that people want more entertainment and connectivity options while driving, and most importantly, we as a culture find it acceptable to exhibit these behaviors. 

So what can be done? 

On this episode of The Fleet, Paul educates us about distracted driving from the perspective of our brain. He explains why we behave the way we do, and how to prevent distraction. He tells stories of international policies that are much more effective at preventing distracted driving accidents and how some cities and private companies are doing it too.

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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help. 

Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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Driver shortage? 

There’s no driver shortage. 

So why is the trucking industry having such a hard time filling its open jobs? 

According to today’s guest, the cause is not a shortage of drivers, but an abundance of options. 

Joining the show is FreightWaves’ Grace Sharkey. FreightWaves is like the Bloomberg of transportation -- they report on all the logistics, trends, and news that fuel the global supply chain.

In today’s conversation, Grace uncovers the abundance of opportunity available to drivers today, and why the antiquated industry is struggling to meet drivers on their terms. She also discusses how she thinks labor wages will roll back and how new innovations will make shipping easier and possibly less expensive. Plus, find out what she thinks happened to her Beyonce facemask that just never arrived and what happens to your goods that just magically disappear in transit.

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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help. 

Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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About 35 percent of U.S. trucking miles are driven empty. This means that roughly 1 in 3 trucks we see on the road are empty, traveling between jobs, burning fuel, time, and miles with nothing to haul and no money being made.

Convoy is on a mission to change that. 

Joining the podcast today is Grant Goodale. Grant is the founder, former CTO, and now CXO of Convoy, an on-demand trucking service for arranging regional and local shipments.

Today, Grant tells us how his team is transforming the trucking and shipping industry by helping connect drivers and companies with orders around the country. Grant talks about how they built the Convoy network from the ground up, how they vet for and encourage safety among drivers, and how they are building a future without those time-sucking, fuel-guzzling empty miles.

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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help. 

Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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Earlier this season we sat down with Giovanni Bertolino of Enel X to discuss electric vehicles and the infrastructure needed to support them. Today, we dive even deeper into the world of EVs and what you need to know about implementing them in your fleets. 

Joining us for that discussion is Tim Campbell, the founder and Managing Director of Campbells Consultancy. He is one of the UK's most experienced commercial vehicle consultants in helping fleets transition from diesel to electric or hydrogen fuel cells. As he puts it, switching to “alternatively-fuelled vans or trucks is the start of the journey, not the end.”

In today’s conversation, Tim takes on that journey and helps answer the questions you don’t even know to ask about switching to EVs. From how to power your vans to what type of chargers to use to why it matters whether or not you are leasing your land to the role weather and location play in it all, Tim shares his take on everything you need to know about EV fleets.

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The Fleet is brought to you by our friends at Lytx. Whether you manage a fleet of five vehicles or 5,000 – Lytx is here to help. 

Lytx fleet dash cams are powered by best in class machine vision and artificial intelligence designed to help commercial fleets and drivers operate more safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Go to Lytx.com/thefleet to learn more today.

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The Fleet is created by the team at Mission. To learn more about our creative studio and network of podcasts, go to mission.org.

Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

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