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Five Ways to Reduce Fuel Consumption Using GPS Tracking

Every fleet, big and small, must pay for fuel. As fuel costs continue to rise, more and more business owners and fleet managers are turning to GPS fleet tracking technology as a cost effective way to manage this unavoidable expense and give them the edge in a highly competitive environment.

Whitepaper: Improve Customer Service Quality with a GPS Fleet Tracking System

Implementing a robust GPS fleet tracking solution can improve customer service. It will improve response time, invoicing accuracy, and fleet visibility.

Reducing Fleet Spend Using Fleet Management Software

See how Cox Communications captures its complex and disparate fleet and operational data across its divisions and operating companies and then extrapolates real-time information, resulting in leveraged acquisition costs and a reduced fleet spend.

Primary Benefits of Using GPS Tracking

GPS Technology can be used to increase productivity, improve customer service, assist the employee in having a better safety record, help lower fuel costs, reduce overtime pay and lower insurance rates. View this comprehensive whitepaper to see how.

Why Advanced Performance, Driver Safety Training?

A recent survey of graduates showed crash reduction rates up to 50% or more. Understand the significant financial benefits obtained by incorporating advanced performance, driver training.

Fleet Management Services: Best Practices

Find out the best fleet management services and practices to consider for your fleet.

Short-Term Leasing Benefits

Learn how you can save capital expenses through short-term vehicle leasing for special events, seasonal activities, contract or project fullfilment needs.
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Real Cost of Delivery

This whitepaper outlines and analyzes the real cost of vehicle delivery. You will be able to calculate your transport costs using the formulas provided.

Distracted Driving Whitepaper – Understanding Your Fleet’s Risk and Liability

This 14 page whitepaper examines the deadly practice of driving while using a mobile device and the impact such behavior can have on a fleet’s liability. It also addresses innovative solutions that are being developed in response to the growing problem.

Investing in Fleet Tracking Yields Substantial ROI

By tracking and monitoring your fleet with GPS, you can save money on fuel consumption, increase productivity, reduce overtime costs, lower risk, and even cut down roadside assistance costs. Read how Kennecott Utah Copper achieved a 1,500% ROI by embracing fleet tracking.

Hidden Costs That Eat Away At Your Fuel Budget

Could you be wasting money and not even know it? Download our white paper to identify ways your company can reduce fuel management costs.

What Will Your Next Crash Really Cost?

After reading our first white paper, “Enlist the Aid of ‘Road warriors’ to Help Predict Your Next Crash,” you know at-fault crashes are predictable. In this White Paper, Number Two of our series, you will learn that, since at-fault crashes are predictable, they are also preventable through the use of new technology.

Case Study: The Drive To Compete

In the late 1990s, the Arizona Department of Transportation managed over 12,000 government vehicles statewide, tracking every detail and every dollar with an outdated and inefficient DOS-based PC application. See what steps they took to become one of the most competitively managed fleets in the U.S.

Help in Predicting Your Next Crash

How can you, a safety or risk manager in a company, predict which driver is going to have your fleet’s next accident? By yourself, you can’t. But by enlisting the aid of other road warriors, you can predict which drivers in your fleet are at high risk to have your next at-fault crash.

Reducing Fleet Costs Benchmark Survey

How are you reducing fleet costs in this current economy? View our 2009 survey to benchmark your fleet's practices.

Fleet Cargo Security Benchmarking Research Results

See how your fleet cargo security and asset management strategies measure up with fleet managers across the nation.

Fleet Maintenance Management System Best Practices

See how one fleet implemented a universal system to reduce operating costs, instill accountability, save time and increase efficiency.



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Whitepapers

Optimizing Fleet Maintenance with Wireless Vehicle Management
For fleet managers, nothing is more important than keeping vehicles running and productive. Maintaining vehicles, including repair, upkeep, and downtime, has a huge impact on a fleet’s bottom line. A proactive, preventive maintenance program helps fleet managers keep vehicle repair costs to a minimum. Find out how you can stay on top of your vehicles’ service needs in this eBook.
Demystifying Typical CNG Facility Compliance
Understanding what fleet owners must do to bring their CNG facilities up to code.
Beyond the Basics: Fleet Management Solutions at the Next Level
Traditionally, telematics devices have been used to track the location of vehicles. But increasingly fleet solutions provide analytics that offer fleet managers a much broader and more detailed view of activity in the field. As a result, fleet managers are realizing the benefits of incorporating these analytics into their day-to-day operations.
Flexible Card Types: A New Way to Manage to Vehicles, Drivers or Both
Today’s fleet cards offer fleet managers more than just a convenient way to purchase fuel. They also provide new options to leverage technologies that were not possible just a few short years ago. But finding the right program for your fleet doesn’t have to require excessive time and research. It just takes a little introspection.
Meeting Government Mandates to Reduce Fleet Size
With shrinking budgets, state and local governments are mandating fleet vehicle reductions as a way to cut costs. Fleet managers are being asked tough questions about how, why and by whom their vehicles are being used.

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FleetSpeak

Thi Dao
Test-Driving the Honda FCX Clarity Fuel-Cell Car

By Thi Dao
Is the world ready for fuel-cell vehicles? What I learned from my test drive & Honda’s Steve Ellis.

Resolve to Improve Your Fleet

By Thi Dao

Government Fleet Market Trends

Mike Antich
Fleet Is Not an Island Unto Itself

By Mike Antich
A successful fleet operation is not an island unto itself. Yet, this is how some fleet managers view their operation – an island surrounded by a sea of unreasonable user groups. We will all agree this is the wrong mindset and that fleet operations must be closely aligned with user departments. However, the reality is that interdepartmental friction is an unfortunate fact of life, especially territorial issues that result in emotional defiance not open to discussion or compromise.

What is the Future of Public Sector Fleet Managers?

By Mike Antich

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Government Fleet - January/February 2013

In This Issue
Here are some of the Highlights:

  • Remarketing: From Local Auctions to an International Marketplace
  • 9 Steps to Online Remarketing Success
  • Fleet Spend: The Expansion of Fleet Procurement Options
    And much more…