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Limotours Hellas SA General Manager Anastasios Korovesis with the Signum Virtuitis award Athens, Greece — Luxury chauffeur and private tour service, Limotours Hellas SA was awarded the prestigious Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Award on September 23 at the Ecali Club in Athens. This was the fifth anniversary of the awards, but the first time the event was held in Greece.
The Signum Virtutis Award (seal of excellence) recipients are companies and brands that represent the pinnacle of luxury, hospitality, and lifestyle. CEOs, presidents, managing directors, owners, and general managers of the most exclusive property brands from around the world attend this annual event.
“We are honored to be chosen to be along with the top luxury hotels and services in the world,” explained Anastasios Korovesis, general manager at Limotours Hellas SA. “We are excited to know that our attention to detail and our bespoke service has been noticed through this incredible award.”
The gala was a must-attend event with Greek star Nina Lotsari performing for those in attendance. The awards are known as the “Oscars of Luxury.” The luxury panel of judges consist of top internationally recognized leaders in tourism, lifestyle, and hospitality who are high profiled individuals and well-traveled.
Visit limotours.gr for more information.
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Guy French, Prevost vice president & general manager for services
Sainte Claire, Q.C.—Prevost is very proud to announce Guy French as the new vice president and general manager (VPGM) for services for Prevost and Nova Bus. This appointment follows the retirement of long-time leader Clay Flynt, who left at the end of September after 33 years with the Volvo Group, including 10 as Prevost Aftermarket VPGM.
Flynt oversaw the expansion of the Prevost Parts & Service Network to its current position as a leading service network in the industry. “We would like to thank Clay for his dedication and passion. He instilled a lot of trust and team spirit throughout the entire organization and it has been an immense privilege working with him,” said Ralph Acs, president of Nova Bus and Prevost and senior vice president of Volvo Bus for the Americas.
“Guy has been part of the team for the past 26 years and has been instrumental in helping to shape and develop the Services business. We worked together over the last 10 years and helped to build a culture of customer care, customer uptime, parts availability, and growing the service network; including introducing service vans to bring our customer care to the customer’s doorstep,” said Flynt.
“I am very pleased with the announcement of Guy. His extensive experience, knowledge of the business, and care for our customers make [him] the natural choice. Our motto is, ‘We go above and beyond’ for our customers. This is engrained into our team of over 600 employees in services taking care of our customers day in and day out,” said Acs.
“I am honored and excited to be leading our efforts to better serve and support our customers for our three brands, Prevost, Nova Bus, and Volvo. We will continue to strive to keep our industry leading position by offering a larger array of services to help those customers be even more successful,” said French.
Prevost Commuter at the APTA Expo
In other news, Prevost and Nova Bus joined together in an impressive and interactive exhibit at the recent American Public Transit Association (APTA) Expo held October 9-11 in Atlanta.
Prevost displayed an X3-45 Commuter coach equipped with the new Electric Fan Drive introduced earlier this year. Prevost’s Electric Fan Drive is a fully integrated system that eliminates the need for a belt-driven fan, thereby reducing the engine horsepower required to operate the coach. The end result is an up-to-four percent improvement in fuel economy. A detached fan drive was also available for a closer, more in-depth look.
On display from Nova Bus were the 100 percent electric LFSe model and the LFS CNG. The city of Montreal is currently running LFSe vehicles, which offer rapid and fully automatic charging to keep the fully electric buses on schedule. The CNG vehicle, which features the latest in clean natural gas technology, was on loan from San Antonio’s VIA public transit.
Customers had access to additional product information such as features, benefits and specifications through touchscreen kiosk next to the coaches. In addition, a cutting edge virtual reality exhibit gave attendees the chance to see and experience the new Nova Bus driver’s cockpit area with greatly improved driver visibility, which will be available on some vehicles in 2018.
Furthermore, Prevost and Nova Bus were official sponsors of EXPO Eats, an area where themed food, drinks, and entertainment were offered daily during lunch hours. Themes included BBQ, Taste of Atlanta, and a Beer Garden.
A desk dedicated to Prevost Parts & Service, which also fully supports the needs of Nova Bus customers, was staffed by Prevost Training and Service personnel. Show attendees were able to discuss parts needs and learn about the availability of service training online, in a classroom setting at Prevost facilities and on site at customer locations.
A press conference was held on Tuesday, October 10, to announce the opening of four new service centers, further extending Prevost’s already widespread service network. In recognition of the direction in which the industry is headed, the progress both Prevost and Nova Bus have made in vehicle electrification was also highlighted.
Visit prevostcar.com for more information.
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Newark, Del. — Driving Dynamics, a provider of advanced performance driver safety training for fleet-based organizations throughout North America, has announced the launch of a new learning management system (LMS) and the availability of its online driver safety lessons in U.S. English and Spanish as well as Canadian French.
Under its new DrivActiv digital services brand, Driving Dynamics’ elearning service is now optimized for mobile devices and all training content meets SCORM standards. Adding to the flexible delivery, the company offers several fee plans to suit all buyers, including pay-as-you-go, prepaid discounted plans and a new unlimited subscription-access pricing plan.
In business for 30 years and well known for its behind-the-wheel training programs, the company has already delivered its online courseware to more than one million learners. According to Art Liggio, Driving Dynamics, president and CEO, DrivActiv elearning represents an integration of its vast expertise as a driver safety training provider with the convenience and technologies offered by a robust LMS and online delivery system.
Developed in conjunction with leading safety, risk management and instructional design consultants, the DrivActiv elearning catalog comprises 70 topics across four libraries organized by light-duty, heavy-duty, and micro learning. Topics are based on twenty-first century risk exposures, such as distracted driving, overburdened infrastructure, risk compensation, increased work demands, and a review of more than 200,000 fleet-related crash incident reports, where the most prevalent loss types were identified. DrivActiv elessons have been designed to provide practical solutions which address the contributing factors of those risk exposures and incidents.
“Driving Dynamics has been solely dedicated to the driver safety space for three decades, in that time we’ve been acknowledged as a premier provider of both online and behind-the-wheel training,” said Liggio. “The DrivActiv elearning system is an evolution of our commitment to offer comprehensive, high quality and highly adaptable training solutions that respond to the specific needs safety administrators.”
Visit drivingdynamics.com for more information.
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