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Pioneers in Fleet Maintenance Management Software

Founded in 1979 as a fleet maintenance consulting firm, the Company is recognized as one of the early pioneers and inventors of fleet maintenance management software for the personal computer, with its first presentation of a fleet maintenance management software in 1980 in the CPM operating system. Started as a fleet management consulting company serving private and public fleets with maintenance management operational and organizational services, Arsenault Associates has become known as a national leader in fleet maintenance technologies and is regularly referenced in national industry trade journals and magazines.

Today the Company's mission is to invent, develop and deploy innovative solutions to assist fleet-dependent companies to reduce their fleet operating costs and equipment downtime. Its family of software technology and service products under the brand named "Dossier" are among the best known, most widely used systems of its kind in North America.

Arsenault Associates points with pride to its growing customer base of over 3,000 commercial fleets that include small private companies, Fortune 100 firms, and schools and government agencies throughout North America that operate over 400,000 pieces of equipment. Dossier is used by these fleets to control a wide variety of equipment such as tractors, trailers, trucks, buses, autos, construction and material handling equipment and more. Highlights of the Company's innovations include:

  • 1980: Fleet Analysis was one of the nation's first fleet maintenance software applications for use with a personal computer that documented fleet assets and analyzed operating costs and cost per mile.
  • 1984:Maintenance Magic was one of the first fleet maintenance data processing services and marketed as one of the first stand-alone fleet programs for the PC in the DOS operating system.
  • 1986: Dossier Fleet Maintenance Software is one of the first fleet maintenance management programs that integrated with automated fuel island systems for the importation of fuel & meter data.
  • 1989: Introduced the first fleet maintenance parts bar coding system using double stick piggyback labels.
  • 1994: America Fleet On-Line service was one of the nation's first Windows-based, interactive client/server on-line bulletin board dedicated specifically to the surface transportation industry. It helped set the trend for the many Internet applications used by commercial fleets today.
  • 1999: 24/7 Fleet Online is one of the first online Application Service Provider (ASP) solutions for fleet maintenance allowing fleets to run the Dossier software program over the Internet, from anywhere.
  • 2003: Pocket Dossier is one of the first hand-held, wireless, bar-code enabled fleet maintenance applications built around an off the shelf PDA.
  • 2004: Pocket Dossier is deployed over cell phone technology.
  • 2004: Dossier Onboard is the first commercially available integration of an on-board-computer and a fleet maintenance program that allows vehicles to report and document their own maintenance issues in real time without human intervention using selectable Wi-Fi, cellular and/or satellite communications.
  • 2004: Dossier is the first fleet maintenance software to have an automated interface with Comdata’s virtual MasterCard system to provide a secure payment system to handle road service vendor invoices.

The Company, its staff and products have received numerous awards and industry recognition. For example: "Top 100 fastest growing companies" in NJ, PA and DE by Wharton SBDC; "Top 100 fastest growing companies" in NJ by the Philadelphia Business Journal; Named "Company to Watch" by the Philadelphia Business Magazine; Recognized for the "New Jersey Governor's Cup for Entrepreneurial Excellence" award and identified as a "Star Search Product" by Computer ReSeller Magazine, to name a few.

Arsenault takes great pride in being a customer driven company who listens and works closely with its customers to generate new fleet operational ideas and technologies. By continuing to reinvest into the development of innovative fleet technologies and by providing world-class customer support services, the Company will remain as the #1 fleet maintenance software of choice for private and public fleets.

A Full-Service Company

“A good fleet maintenance program is a lot more than just software.”
- Charles J. Arsenault, President

Regardless of your fleet size and present needs, we “partner” with our customers by providing end-to-end, fleet maintenance management technology solutions to help customize your fleet maintenance software. We do this by providing you with one to one design and implementation strategies to ensure a successful and effective launch of your fleet software. Arsenault is a full-service company with over 100 years of collective experience in fleet maintenance software operations. We know and understand the various issues facing fleet managers, executives, foremen, mechanics, part room staff and all who will be involved.

We work closely with clients to identify how to best deploy and manage their fleet maintenance software operations more effectively through various end-to-end services (see below), which we have perfected over the past 25 years. As a full-service company, we have three primary goals with respect to our clients:

  1. Reduce their fleet operating costs and downtime
  2. Manage their fleet maintenance more effectively and safely
  3. Make the job of managing the fleet easier for everyone involved
A service where we meet with you to discuss your specific or unique fleet maintenance software requirements, goals and objectives, etc. and provide a set of system design and deployment recommendations.

A service where we custom design and configure your Dossier software to your specific fleet and operational needs.

Our technical staff performs an analysis of your current data files structure to determine if converting your current data files to Dossier is feasible, both financially and from a data integrity viewpoint.

A service where we pre-load your new Dossier database by entering your vehicles, parts, vendors and personnel for you and present you with a ready to run program.

For a fleet who has no one to run their Dossier program on a daily basis, we take responsibility for the day-to-day data input of your fleet information while allowing access to the important management information a fleet needs.

Training is the key to maximizing your investment in the Dossier software, which can be performed in many ways including Train the Trainer, End-User Training and Exec. Training: (1) Over the Internet (2) At your site (3) Regional seminars (4) Training lab in Atco, NJ

The quality of technical support directly relates to the confidence of end users and the overall quality of your program. We offer program support in several ways: (1) E-mail (2) Toll-free 800 # (3) Modem (4) On-line via the Internet (5) FAQ page

After using Dossier for some time, we analyze your fleet maintenance software database, its daily operation, the use of data, and make recommendations via a written report to help you optimize and enhance the value of your Dossier program.