
The City of Olympia, Wash., is the first city in the state to join Nissan’s Leaf electric vehicle lease program by leasing six Leafs. This helps the city comply with state law, with requires local agencies to use biofuels or electricity for fleet vehicles by 2018.
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Roughly half of officers don't wear seatbelts even though traffic accidents are now the leading cause of police duty deaths, according to a study by a California police training board.
Read More →The Internal Revenue Service has notified Putnam County, Tenn., officials that they must either mark take-home vehicles or begin paying taxes on them.
Read More →A train struck a City of Charleston, W.Va., work truck early Wednesday as city workers attempted to cross the tracks to pick up garbage, reports WSAZ.
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A City of Philadelphia economic committee is investigating a proposal to replace aging city vehicles with vehicles that run on compressed natural gas or other alternative fuels.
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Municipal fleets can save time and money by outsourcing accident management services such as collision repair, a CEI Group's executive told the Oklahoma Fleet Management Association.
Read More →Several North Carolina cities including the City of Raleigh will begin leasing police motorcycles through Sparta Commercial Services as a cost-saving measure, the company announced Tuesday.
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The City of Orlando's police department replaced 35 of its Harley-Davidson motorcycles earlier this year, after moving to a four-year replacement cycle implemented as a result of the economic downturn.
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The Municipal Equipment Maintenance Association (MEMA), headquartered in Southern California, chose to expand its membership base by allowing fleets in other areas to create MEMA regional chapters. The association’s first regional chapter will be in Ohio.
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Federal agencies reduced their fleet costs by $88 million in fiscal-year 2012, a 1.98% decrease over FY-2011 levels. A 10,000-vehicle reduction helped contribute to the reduced fleet costs.
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