MANAGING PUBLIC SECTOR VEHICLES & EQUIPMENT
After three years of audits and reforms to the state's fleet policies, the West Virginia legislature announced it has determined an accurate fleet count.
The newly signed House Bill 4015 reforms the state’s Fleet Management Office into a permanent Fleet Management Division and requires annual reporting and continual tracking of the state fleet.
A new bill signed into law in Texas is expected to reduce fleet emissions. State agencies with 15 or more state-owned vehicles will need to purchase vehicles that run on alternative fuels.
The California Senate has unanimously approved new legislation that would require ignition interlocks for all drunk-driving offenders in the state.
State lawmakers in Illinois have restarted a bid to eliminate vehicles in the state's fleet that travel less than 7,000 miles per year, which represented 25 percent of the state's vehicles in 2011.
While Capitol Hill may yet again slap an eleventh-hour cold patch on the highway-funding gap, state governments are moving ever more quickly and innovatively to put their infrastructure spending in order.
Minnesota began requiring all diesel fuel in the state to contain 10% biodiesel on July 1. The state's Department of Natural Resources, which has 1,200 diesel vehicles, has been experimenting with B-20 and doesn't anticipate any problems with the move to B-10.