GADSDEN, AL State prison officials and police in Alabama´s Etowah County are looking for a man who escaped from the Elmore Correctional Center Nov. 30 in a white state-owned vehicle, according to the Associated Press.
Read More →VICTORVILLE, CA - The City of Victorville is buying 12 new vehicles from local dealers and getting a sedan from the state to replace 23 vehicles from the 1970s and ´80s, reported the Victorville Desert Dispatch.
Read More →BATON ROUGE, LA - The Louisiana State Police is considering whether to drop its lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. which claims its police vehicles are unacceptably dangerous. The discussion arose one week after lawyers won the right to bring any state police department that owns a Crown Victoria police car into the suit, reported the Associated Press.
Read More →DAYTON, OH – City officials may create a free, public wireless Internet network throughout the city that would make Dayton a national leader in wireless Web services, reported the Dayton Business Journal.
Read More →ALBANY, NY - The State of New York has leased two 2005 Honda FCX fuel cell vehicles and will be Honda´s first customer for a fuel cell vehicle in the Northeastern United States.
Read More →ORLANDO, FL - The City of St. Petersburg, Fla., signed a three-year agreement with FleetBoss Global Positioning Solutions, Inc. to receive a GPS-based fleet management solution.
Read More →YONKERS, NY - The city is making good progress in reducing its fleet of take-home vehicles, said City Council President Richard Martinelli, according to The Journal News newspaper.
Read More →b>FORT WAYNE, IN - The Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department is considering consolidating its fleet maintenance department with the rest of the city government, Director Dianne Hoover told city board members, reported the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel.
Read More →HAMMOND, IN – The fire chief of Hammond, Ind., received a five-day suspension after admitting he drove his city-owned vehicle to a bar, reported the Munster Times newspaper.
Read More →OKLAHOMA CITY – A state audit found that selling some of Oklahoma´s state-owned vehicles along with other changes could save $21 million, according to the Associated Press.
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