Paul Clinton

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Articles

FCA Elevates Ram Truck Head to CEO

1 week ago | autodealertodaymagazine.com | Paul Clinton

LONDON — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has named Ram truck and Jeep head Michael Manley as its chief executive officer, after medical complications forced Sergio Marchionne to step away from the company, FCA has announced.
The Efficiency of the CHP's Vehicle Assembly Line

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

Assembly lines helped automakers in the early days of the industry increase production speed and create an efficient process to achieve standardization. Early cars such as Ford's Model T and Oldsmobile's Curved Dash rolled out of factories with the same parts attached in the same places. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has applied this process to its vehicle upfitting in its Fleet Operations facility in West Sacramento – the nerve center for California's largest law enforcement fleet.
How to Deal With the Privileges of Rank

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

Rank, as they say in law enforcement and the military, brings its privileges. In the military, higher ranking officers can ride in chauffeured cars or drive themselves in higher-trim sedans and SUVs. In law enforcement, police chiefs, sheriffs, and other top brass have been known to request higher trim grades and other vehicle upgrades.
Police Vehicles Pushed to the Limit in California

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

New vehicles arriving into the police market is forcing the testing agencies to rethink their approach, which was initially designed for gasoline-powered sedans, and is now being used to evalute a full-size pickup truck and gasoline-electric hybrid sedan. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department conducted its annual evaluation of 2018-model-year police vehicles from Oct. 10 to 13.
2018 Police Motorcycles Tested in Michigan

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

Police motorcycles provide an appealing option for law enforcement agencies tasked with highway enforcement – they're more nimble, quick, and carry a lower acquisition cost that a four-wheel option. Harley-Davidson, BMW, Yamaha, and Zero will offer five base motorcycles for the 2018 model year tested by the Michigan State Police in September.
Upgrading the F-150 for Off-Road Patrol

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

Ford took the wraps off its 2018 F-150 Police Responder earlier this month and showed police agencies its latest tool for law enforcement work on more rugged terrain. Early feedback indicates that the truck will find a place with more rural agencies. While this is the first large pickup designed for more dynamic driving and higher speeds from Ford, agencies have been using Ford's F-150, as well as its Super Duty trucks, in police fleets for quite some time.
How Ford's Hybrid Patrol Car Is Different

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

So far, law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles and New York like what they see, when they size up Ford's Police Responder Hybrid Sedan — the first gasoline-electric hybrid offered to police fleets that's expected to gain a pursuit rating.
A Sure Bet for Reducing Distracted Police Driving

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

While shootouts and ambush killings of police officers provide high-profile examples of the hazards of police work, more often than not officers lose their lives while driving patrol vehicles. Pursuing suspects or responding to an officer-needs-help radio call present situations that cause officers to drive more aggressively, which can increase risk to their own lives and those of bystanders on the roadways. Statistics bear this out.
How FCA Views the Police Market

Jul 27, 2024 | government-fleet.com | Paul Clinton

Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler have all taken a different approach to the police vehicle market that's mostly based on their prior experience and feedback from agencies on their respective advisory boards. This year, Ford introduced a pursuit-rated hybrid sedan and F-150 to complement its current offerings, and GM discontinued its sedans to focus on the rising popularity of utility vehicles. Let's take a closer look at FCA's strategy. But first, some history.
Shifting of food sources affect abundance of yeast like symbionts in Lasioderma serricorne (F.)

Jun 12, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Paul Clinton |Krishnamanikumar Premachandran |Thanga Suja Srinivasan |Ainara Peñalver Cruz

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Supporting Information Filename Description jen13268-sup-0001-FigureS1.pdfPDF document, 211.4 KB Figure S1 jen13268-sup-0002-FigureS2.pdfPDF document, 137.4 KB Figure S2 REFERENCES , & (2020). The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum: A model for host-microbiome interactions. PLoS One, 15, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239051 , , & (2012).