What Government Fleets Are Missing About Their True Costs
What are fleet budgets missing, and how can agencies use the data they already collect to make a stronger case for change?
Read More →What are fleet budgets missing, and how can agencies use the data they already collect to make a stronger case for change?
Read More →TALAHASSEE, FL – A recent University of Florida (UF) event demonstrated the school's first ethanol fuel station.
Read More →CHATTANOOGA, TN – Heil Environmental sold its truck equipment business, consisting of the Heil Truck Equipment Group and Heil South distributorship, to Truck Bodies and Equipment International, Inc., a portfolio company of Kirtland Capital Partners.
Read More →PATERSON, NJ –Police cars in Paterson, N.J. will continue to be painted in the colors of red, white, and blue, according to a recent state court settlement brought on by a political feud.
Read More →EAGLE, CO – The Eagle County, Colo., commissioners have asked for bids to buy as many as 20 gas/electric hybrid cars — possibly Toyota Priuses and a handful of Toyota Camrys — to replace the same number of vehicles in the county's current fleet.
Read More →GILROY, CA – State-of-the-art computers installed over the past two years in 28 Police Department police cruisers for the City of Gilroy have gone haywire, costing the city more than $50,000 in repairs and replacement parts.
Read More →DES MOINES, IA – Des Moines taxpayers will pay more than $220,000 for eight new hybrid police cars — a move officials said could save thousands of dollars as gasoline prices remain high.
Read More →SOMERVILLE, MA – The City of Somerville has expanded its partnership with Zipcar, North America's largest car sharing company, to provide more area residents and businesses with a cost-effective and greener alternative to car ownership.
Read More →SPRINGFIELD, IL – Building on efforts to help support Illinois' farmers and to expand the use of clean and renewable energy, Governor Rod Blagojevich announced a record use of biofuels and a dramatic increase of flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs) in the State's motor vehicle fleet.
Read More →Replacement tires are a fleet’s third-largest operating expense. And this expense is growing.
Read More →The air in tires is 78-percent nitrogen. There appear to be many advantages to filling tires with 99-percent pure nitrogen. Equipment is available for centrally managed fleets to do the job.
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