After Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in Findlay acquired Standard Products Co. in Dearborn, MI, about a year and a half ago, and in February 2000 acquired Siebe Automotive, Cooper Travel Card and Fleet Administrator Kathleen Jebbett found herself with a fleet that had doubled in size, to 630 vehicles. Jebbett's first order of business was to create a corporate fleet policy for the combined group. "We tried to take what we felt were the best practices from each company, and we combined them into one," Jebbett said in an interview with Automotive Fleet. One policy that Cooper Tire had was to require drivers to pay the first $200 in repair cost if they were responsible for damage to their company vehicle. This was included in the new policy. One Standard Products policy that was adopted by Cooper Tire was to require drivers to sign a form stating they have read and understood the fleet policy. Jebbett also found herself with three new leasing companies. Cooper Tire's primary leasing company was GE Capital Fleet Services, but Standard Products used Tamaroff Leasing, CitiCapital Fleet, and Corporate Fleet Services in Detroit. Jebbett said GE Capital will continue being the primary lessor. Jebbett said she is in the process of creating a 2002-model-year vehicle selector list for the combined fleet. The Cooper Tire selector list is divided into four levels, with five or six vehicles to choose from at each level. Cooper Tire has salespeople who call on vehicle manufacturers. If a salesperson deals primarily with Chrysler, for example, Jebbett says, she made sure that salesperson would have the choice of a Chrysler. Jebbett said her department staff did not increase in size with the addition of more vehicles, but she said she is working to make the fleet department more automated. For the last year, her department has been ordering vehicles online with GE Capital Fleet Services. Jebbett said she was working to institute a program in which salespeople order vehicles themselves over the Internet.