100 Best Fleets
Implementing Best Business Practices: What Smart Leaders Do in Difficult Times
3/18/2010
Thursday, March 18th | 9AM-2:30PM
Location: Inglewood, CA (Southern California)
City of Inglewood
City Hall Community Room
One Manchester Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90302
- Alternative funding for fleets; Phoenix saved $12 million last year with this strategy.
- How to eliminate RFPs from your processes saving a minimum of $5,000 per RFP and still receiving the best quality products at the lowest possible price, one fleet in Virginia saved 35% on $700,000 worth of equipment (presented by Greg Haglin; National Joint Powers Alliance; Staples, MN)
- How you can be your own grant writer. Work your way through the process from funding identification to reporting and maximize your prospects for approval. One grant writer has initiated over 500 grants totaling 87 million dollars. Charlotte Whitney; a grant writer from Palm Springs, CA has secured over $30 million in grants for fleets including over $1.3 million for the City of Inglewood. She will facilitate the process for us to secure our own grant money.
- "Get Paid for Performance": Betty Linck, C.F.M.; Fleet Director; Town of Greenwich, CT (retired November 2009) was one of the highest paid fleet managers in the country because she was able to connect her performance to her compensation. Find out how you can do the same thing and use the metrics she used to demonstrate efficiencies. Betty was named "A Fleet Woman of Influence in 2008" her fleet ranked consistently in the top 20 in the country, she has spoken at national fleet conferences and authored over 20 articles on fleet performance.
- "The future by fleet management software, is there a Cloud in store for you?" Most of your decisions are data driven find our how to use information technology more efficiently in your operation. Presented by a panel of experts from the actual OEMs.
- The # 1 Green fleet in the country, Culver City, Paul Condran will present how you can go green and remain lean.
- A panel discussion by change agents on how to implement your ideas and promote change in your own organization.
100 Best Fleets
100 Best Fleet Seminar - Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - South Florida
2/24/2010
Fort Lauderdale (South Florida)
Wednesday, February 24th | 9AM-3PM
Includes site tours of the #3 Fort Lauderdale, #8 Broward County and #15 Broward County Sheriff, all members of the 100 Best Fleets in America, and lunch.
Holiday Park Social Center
1150 G. Harold Martin Drive
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Speakers include: Ernie Ivy, Fleet Director for the City and County of Denver; Jon Tegtmeier of Avion Company (Huntsville, AL); Greg Haglin of National Joint Powers Alliance (Staples, MN); Tom C Johnson, author of the 100 Best Fleets and Government Green Fleet Award contests (San Francisco, CA) Steve Riley, former fleet manager for the city of Atlanta -- now with Coral Gables, FL., and Doug Weichman, CAFM, Palm Beach County, Fla.
Sponsored by AssetWorks, the company's Vice President Gordon Smith will also lead a discussion on "Using Fleet Management Information Software to Improve Fleet Operations".
This discussion will cover topics such as condition based maintenance (telematics), trend analysis, dashboard monitoring (managing by exception), replacement planning, shop planning calendars and integrated fleet and fuel management practices.
For more information, visit http://www.the100bestfleets.com/s_florida.htm
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100 Best Fleet Seminar - Hillsborough County, Fla. - North Florida
2/23/2010
Hillsborough County (North Florida)
Tuesday, February 23 | 9AM-3PM
Includes a tour of this award winning facility and lunch.
410 South 78th Street
Tampa, FL 33619
Speakers include: Ernie Ivy, Fleet Director for the City and County of Denver; Sharon Subadan CAFM, CPFP, Fleet Director, Hillsborough County; Jon Tegtmeier of Avion Company (Huntsville, AL); and Tom C Johnson, author of the 100 Best Fleets and Government Green Fleet Award contests (San Francisco, CA).
We will also discuss how to get accurate mileage readings every time.
You will receive a 3-page business plan that focuses your fleet daily on its highest priorities. This is a strategy that most of the 100 Best Fleets use in strategic thinking and planning.
Sponsored by AssetWorks, the company's Vice President Gordon Smith will also lead a discussion on "Using Fleet Management Information Software to Improve Fleet Operations".
This discussion will cover topics such as condition based maintenance (telematics), trend analysis, dashboard monitoring (managing by exception), replacement planning, shop planning calendars and integrated fleet and fuel management practices.
For more information, visit http://www.the100bestfleets.com/s_florida.htm
100 Best Fleets
GF 100 Best Fleets Seminar Series - Moline, IL
5/29/2009
Implementing Fleet Best Practices & Responding to Today's Challenging Economic Environment
This powerful and informative fleet seminar brings together true fleet experts from around the country to both present valuable information and facilitate roundtable discussions; They will address the current fiscal crisis in a timely and comprehensive way, and, provide you with meaningful "take aways" that can be immediately implemented.
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- A tour of the facility
- Criteria for the 100 best fleets
- A 3-page actionable business plan
- Brainstorming with the best-of-the-best fleet minds
- A working lunch of "nuts and bolts"
- This is definitely a team building exercise
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Friday May 29, 2009
9:00A.M-3:00 PM
Fleet Training Facility
3635 4th Ave.
Moline, Illinois 61265
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1st Person: $125.00
2nd Team Member: $95.00
Contact us for more information and to register:
Phone: 415/285-8391
Email: Tom@the100best.net
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Government Fleet Magazine and 100 Best Fleets Seminar Series - Oxnard, CA
3/27/2009
Implementing Fleet Best Practices & Responding to Today's Challenging Economic Environment
This powerful and informative fleet seminar brings together true fleet experts from California and around the country to both present valuable information and facilitate roundtable discussions; They will address the current fiscal crisis in a timely and comprehensive way, and, provide you with meaningful "take aways" that can be immediately implemented.
- 3 page actionable business plan that can be implemented immediately!
- Information from brainstorming sessions with the best and the brightest....there is no problem we can't solve together
- An overview of how to work with Municipal Administrations to effectively communicate your Fleet needs
- Tour of the Oxnard Fleet Facility
- Learn how to purchase equipment without requesting RFP's- saving $$$ and countless man hours!
- Learn about resources and incentives that are available now to benefit your fleet.
Join us for a fast paced (9 AM to 3 PM) day at the Oxnard Fleet Facility. Registration includes refreshments, a great lunch and all the materials.
For more information and to register, click here.
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Government Fleet Magazine and 100 Best Fleets Seminar Series - Birmingham, Alabama
2/27/2009
Implementing Fleet Best Practices & Responding to Today's Challenging Economic Environment
This powerful and informative fleet seminar brings together true fleet experts from Alabama and around the country to both present valuable information and facilitate roundtable discussions; They will address the current fiscal crisis in a timely and comprehensive way, and, provide you with meaningful "take aways" that can be immediately implemented. Just some of the "take aways" will include:
- 3 page actionable business plan that can be implemented immediately!
- Information from brainstorming sessions with the best and the brightest....there is no problem we can't solve together
- An overview of how to work with Municipal Administrations to effectively communicate your Fleet needs
- Learn about a technology that Volusia County Florida is using to save $700,000 in fuel consumption!
- Tour of the Hoover Fleet Facility
In 2008 Hoover received national recognition as one of the top 100 fleets in the "100 Best Fleets in North America" program.
- Learn how to purchase equipment without requesting RFP's- saving $$$ and countless man hours! Georgia and Mississippi already use this Federal program!
- Learn about resources and incentives that are available now in Alabama to benefit your fleet.
Join us for a fast paced (9 AM to 3 PM) day at the Hoover Public Service Center. Registration includes refreshments, a great lunch and all the materials.
Cost: $95 ($75 for second and all subsequent registrants from same company)
Click Here to Register Today!