Marc Knight has spent 35 years in fleet, first running a food distributor's delivery routes by accident, then learning the business alongside legends Paul Lauria and Chip Taggart, then building fleet software through three decades of technology shifts. In this episode, Marc Canton sits down with RTA's Marc Knight to trace that path from managed competition consulting in the 1990s to product design at RTA today. They dig into why AI might finally solve fleet's hardest staffing problem (finding and keeping good analysts), why dashboards are always looking backward, and why managed competition still shapes how public fleets prove their value.
What happens when a guy who wanted to be a city planner ends up running a food distributor's delivery trucks, gets mentored by two of the most influential minds in fleet consulting, and spends the next three decades building the software that public fleets run on? You get this episode.
Marc Canton sits down with Marc Knight, who works on RTA's product, roadmap, and enterprise team, for a career-spanning conversation that covers how AI is closing the fleet analyst gap, why dashboards only tell you what already happened, what managed competition actually means for public fleets, and how RTA's new billing module is taking manual ERP reconciliation off fleet managers' plates.
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