Fleet budgets can bring new meaning to the popular phrase, “The math ain’t mathin’.” When your presentation to finance doesn’t tell the full story, the numbers won’t add up, and finance will cut or trim your replacement budget. This…
Twenty-five vehicles at 25% utilization, or ten at 70%? That’s the math driving a wave of government fleet right-sizing. John Martin of Mercury Associates walks through how telematics data and hard conversations with stakeholders are…
The City of Mission is expanding its snow removal fleet and service routes to strengthen winter road response. The move adds equipment capacity and broadens coverage across the municipality.
Dallas has outfitted its garbage trucks with surveillance cameras, using the existing fleet to extend citywide blight monitoring at minimal cost.
There is more to writing a vehicle specification than listing horsepower, payload, dimensions and power. The best spec writers approach the job like detectives. They ask operators what they need, technicians what they can support and…
The City of Buffalo is standing up its own hot patching operation and launching a pothole repair counter to track progress, Mayor Sean Ryan announced. The move brings road repair work in-house and adds public accountability to the…
