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Fleet decisions rarely stay inside the garage. From funding pressure to emissions planning, Tim Coxwell explains what it takes to keep a sheriff’s office fleet moving while planning for what comes next.
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With a disciplined approach and careful planning and implementation, outsourcing non-core functions can provide a positive impact on the entire fleet operation.
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Public auctions are well suited for the U.S. General Services Administration's low-mileage, well-maintained vehicles. GSA Fleet sales totaled about 40,000 vehicles in 2003.
Read More →The Toledo City Council, in an effort to balance the city budget, is considering delaying the purchase of police cars and fire engine replacements.
Read More →The Baltimore city school system has identified up to 84 school vehicles that can be eliminated because of lack of use, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
Read More →Paul Roberts, an energy writer for Harper’s magazine and author of “The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World,” warns in the Los Angeles Times, as reported in the Calstart e-mail newsletter, that the days of cheap oil are gone.
Read More →FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., has placed into service the first of its new, low-emission, hybrid electric powered delivery vehicles in concert with the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, Environmental Defense and Eaton Corporation.
Read More →Three Pittsburgh City Council members used city-owned cars for weeks at a time this winter before criticizing Mayor Tom Murphy for allowing officials and administrators to take home city vehicles, records show, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Read More →Robert Bosch Corporation, a member of the Electronic Stability Control Coalition, has issued results of a newly published research study by the University of Iowa that concludes 34 percent more drivers maintain control of vehicles with Electronic Stability Control (ESC) than drivers without ESC.
Read More →Two bills making their way through the California General Assembly would raise the state’s fuel taxes.
Read More →Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has outlined steps his administration has already taken to reduce the state car fleet and ordered further actions to continue to reduce the size of the fleet and bring greater accountability to the system.
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