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Articlesby Chris BrownMarch 17, 2025

Inaugural Survey Highlights Fleet Managers’ Top Challenges & Priorities

What keeps fleet managers up at night? They cite budget pressures, safety concerns, and compliance headaches as key issues for 2025.

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Market Trendsby Mike AntichApril 17, 2023

Short-Term vs. Long-Term Cost Reductions

Corporate procurement staff are often driven by short-term, immediate cost reductions. However, a longer perspective to soft cost savings is critical because fixating on short-term results will hurt a company in the long run.

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Articlesby Lauren FletcherMarch 15, 2021

9 Tips to Reduce Maintenance Costs Outside the Work Truck Shop

Utilizing tools beyond the ones on the truck shop wall can help you keep truck maintenance costs in check and reduce costly downtime.

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Articlesby Shelley MikaMay 5, 2020

Eliminating Soft & Hidden Truck Fleet Costs

It may not be possible to identify every hidden cost or reduce every soft cost, but being aware of the sources of these costs can help fleets make measurable progress.

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Market Trendsby Mike AntichJanuary 28, 2020

Spend Management & Spend Analytics are Crucial to Creating Fleet Accountability

Everything fleet does revolves around money: asset acquisition, fuel to operate assets, maintenance to keep assets operational, and myriad other miscellaneous, incidental expenses ranging from tolls, parking tickets, and waste disposal fees to taxes.

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Market Trendsby Mike AntichDecember 23, 2019

Harness the Power of Driver Engagement

If you are not actively engaging your drivers to help meet fleet objectives, you are managing the fleet with one hand tied behind your back. Most fleet programs focus on managing the asset versus managing the driver.

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ArticlesFebruary 17, 2017

Balancing Cost Reduction with Productivity Gains

Reduce costs? “Why, that will hurt productivity.” Increase Productivity? “That costs money.” Is this true? Here’s how fleet managers can achieve a Zen-like balance between cost reduction and increased productivity.

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ArticlesCover StoryJanuary 1, 2016

8 Trends in Commercial Fleet Policies

The No. 1 priority for commercial fleets was risk and safety in 2015. The No. 2 priority was data management, whose dramatic spike in interest is attributed to the increased involvement by procurement and finance in fleet management.

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Market Trendsby Mike AntichFebruary 23, 2015

Procurement and Fleet Don't Speak the Same 'Language'

Until the emergence of strategic sourcing in the 1990s, procurement did not hold the same prominence within corporations as it does today. Nowadays, procurement plays a pivotal strategic role. Procurement is now the new engine of change in fleet management, which has resulted in dramatic changes in the fleet purchasing and supplier selection process.

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