Webinar on Demand: VMRS  - The Best Kept Secret in Fleet Maintenance

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“All equipment maintenance has a story to tell, VMRS gives it the voice.”

Jack Poster, Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (VMRS) Services Manager for the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) of the American Trucking Associations 

VMRS coding gives fleet operators, fleet managers and technicians a standard language for assets, parts labor, maintenance, work orders, and scheduling. When asked where your time was spent, the reason for repairs, and where you’re spending the most, VMRS can help take the pain of exports and spreadsheets away and replace it with detailed cost summary reports that can be accessed with the click of a mouse.

Watch the webinar with experts Jack Poster and Dan Weider as they share tips on how you can leverage VMRS to its maximum capacity to save your operation time and money while providing data for you to make informed decisions on your fleet. ...and here’s a little-known fact – it’s easy to implement. In fact, you may already be using VMRS and you don’t even know it!

Here’s what you’ll learn in the session:

What is VMRS and where is it going in a constantly changing industry?
How VMRS is helping Fleet Operations – and how it can help yours
Going beyond System-Assembly-Component and using other codekeys
VMRS myth busters -- common misconceptions about VMRS clarified
Monitoring your fleet over time & optimizing performance while reducing costs
An example of “good,” “better,” “best” scenarios – where do you land?

Speakers:

Jack Poster

VMRS Services Manager, TMC of the American Trucking Associations 

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Jack Poster, TMC’s VMRS Services Manager has worked in the transportation industry for more than 40 years. His family owned a Chrysler-Plymouth agency in Western Pennsylvania. After college Jack returned to help run the dealership. Later he moved to Northern Virginia to raise his family and work for Merchant’s Tire & Auto (NTB) (one of the nations largest independent tire dealers).

After 19 years with Merchant’s he took a position with Mancon Inc. a parts procurement firm for the Virginia Department of Transportation. It was with Mancon that he became familiar with VMRS (Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards)

In 2007, he left Mancon to become TMC’s VMRS Services Manager for the American Trucking Associations. He is now the caretaker of the VMRS coding convention working with fleets, OEMs, software firms and all users of VMRS to insure the integrity of the codes. His duties include adding new codes to the database and also educating people to the many uses of VMRS.

Dan Weider

Fleet Management Consultant, AMCS Group

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Dan joined Dossier Systems in 2014. Born into a northern California family trucking business, Groskopf – Weider Trucking. Dan has over 45 years’ experience in truck maintenance and fleet management. Dan came to the AMCS Group thru the acquisition of Dossier Systems. Prior to joining Dossier Systems as a Fleet Management Consultant, Dan was the general manager for Wabash of Reno, where he was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the dealership. For several years Dan was the Nevada fleet manager and Dossier trainer at Dean Foods. Where he helped develop and implement Dean’s corporate preventive maintenance program. For Ten years he was the Fleet manager for Wilcox Farms of Roy, Washington. Dan has also worked in fleet software sales with Dossier and Karmak, Inc. Dan is a graduate of Denver Automotive & Diesel College.

Bob Hausler

VP of Transport, North America, AMCS Group

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Bob joined AMCS as part of the Dossier Systems acquisition in 2021. He is focused on expanding the market presence of the AMCS Transport Solutions in North America, including Optimized Routing & Dispatch, Fleet & Asset Maintenance, and Telematics & IoT. He also has global product responsibility for Fleet and Asset Maintenance. Previously, Bob led marketing, product management, development, and IT for Dossier Systems. He has always focused on digital industrial technology, and before moving to the transportation sector, had a long career with multiple marketing and business management roles in industrial automation and process control. His experience includes taking many successful products and services solutions from concept to deliverable, working with and directing teams around the globe. Bob holds a BSEE from Drexel University.