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The 100-year-old car rental company has arrived in America with plans to expand its corporate stores and grow a franchise network. Do you have what it takes to be a Sixt franchisee?
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As the percentage of car rental bookings on mobile devices skyrockets, car rental websites must adapt. Hertz outlines its initiative to overhaul its website using responsive web design.
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Fleet vehicles have always needed to get quickly from “point A” to “point B,” and a handful of pioneers made some significant changes to how it was all handled.
Read More →Fleet wouldn’t be what — or where — it is today without the pioneers who had the persistence to see it through.
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As John F. Kennedy once said, “History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
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Open-end (or finance) leasing was developed in 1951. Fleets wanted to lease units with off-balance sheet reporting. In 1981, the landmark Swift Dodge vs. IRS court decision legitimized the use of open-end TRAC leases.
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In the late 1960s, Don Fenton helped Long Chevrolet build its dealer fleet business. Just a decade later, the dealership was selling 20,000 Chevrolets through the fleet department — and outselling the retail business by 100 percent. Many of today’s industry pros got their start at Long Chevrolet.
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Improved vehicle system quality and electronic diagnostic capabilities, such as OBD-II, have made managing vehicle maintenance an easier task for fleet managers versus several decades ago.
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Advancements in technology have significantly impacted the ability for fleet managers to track fuel use and spending to make their operations more efficient and cost-effective.
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Fleet has been an early adopter of new technology, starting with card reader equipment in the 1950s, use of mainframes in the 1960s, “dumb” terminals of the 1970s, PCs in the 1980s, and now a multitude of Web-enabled services.
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