
The Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC) Coalition announced that its member fleets saved more than 25 million gasoline gallon equivalents of petroleum and 225,000 tons of greenhouse-gas emissions in 2015.
Read More →Scott County, Iowa, has hired Barbara Branscom as its new fleet manager. The county decided to create the role based on research from Mercury Associates.
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Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff Dan Staton bought a higher trim Dodge Charger with unnecessary features to replace a one-year-old vehicle, ignoring county purchasing policies as well as the fleet manager’s refusal to buy him the car.
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The Michigan State Police and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have announced the dates that they will conduct testing of 2017 model-year pursuit-rated police vehicles in September and October respectively.
Read More →The Philadelphia Police Department has begun an investigation into why officers disguised an SUV to look like a Google street mapping vehicle and equipped it with license-plate-reader cameras.
Read More →IronPlanet will continue its series of Cat Auction Services auctions with a May 25 heavy equipment auction in Ballard, Utah on May 25. The sale is the fifth of six major onsite auctions this spring, along with events in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
Read More →The City of Atlanta opened a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station at its solid waste facility in April. The station will allow the city to transition the entire solid waste fleet from diesel to CNG.
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New York City has banned the use of hands-free phone devices by city fleet drivers, except for emergency responders. The city concluded that the use of hands-free devices can lead to equally dangerous levels of distraction as non-hands free devices.
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Republic Services of Idaho presented the City of Boise, Idaho, with a check for $117,000 to launch the city’s first electric-vehicle fleet.
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The Pueblo (Colo.) Police Department will add 22 new Ford Police Interceptor SUVs after the city council approved a $1.1 million, five-year lease agreement for the vehicles.
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