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For Consolidated Service Corporation, Internet-enabled fleet management is a double-edged sword: while it offers speed and flexibility, it threatens to dilute the high-touch customer service that fleet managers demand.
Read More →Fuel is at its highest price since September 1997. This is in dramatic contrast to last year, when gas prices were at their lowest level in 90 years after adjusting for inflation. The unknown is whether fuel prices will decline in 2000.
Read More →Today, much of the focus on fleet management information revolves around the Internet and e-commerce; many fleet managers, however, like Jack O’Donnell of Wyeth-Ayerst, believe in keeping their data in-house.
Read More →Some fleet managers say that extending depreciation schedules increases cash flow and saves money, because the TRAC adjustment is paid with cheaper, future dollars. Others disagree with this funding strategy.
Read More →The two-year provisional chapter in Arizona provides an accessible forum for local members, and aims to attract potential members from fleets whose companies are relocating in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Read More →The percentage of companies that allow personal use of vehicles by employees has declined in the past two years, due to cost control measures and risk avoidance. However, the majority of companies still allow personal use.
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The role of the public sector fleet manager has been changing over the past 20 years. The genesis of this change can be traced back to the privatization trends in government that emerged in the early 1980s during the Reagan Administration.
Read More →I have received a tremendous amount of feedback from public sector fleet managers to the Market Trends column appearing in the August 2002 issue on the need to create a partnership with fleet service providers. You will be able to read many of these comments in the letters to the editor page over the next several issues.
Read More →Across the country, municipal fleets are trimming their vehicles and their staffs to meet increasingly tight budgets. While this may seem a hardship to some, others take this as a cue to operate more efficiently.
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