Finding a True Fleet Dealer: 21 Questions to Ask
Procuring business vehicles from a dealership can be like heading into battle—or it can be a relatively painless operation. It all depends on how you select your dealer.
Procuring business vehicles from a dealership can be like heading into battle—or it can be a relatively painless operation. It all depends on how you select your dealer.
Most vehicles depreciate quickest in their first two years. However, we’ve found some models whose net monthly depreciation is greater in later months. These models are candidates for short cycling.
Several fleets are testing a new telematics-powered service called PHH Onboard. The service seeks to help fleets increase productivity of the driver and vehicle, improve risk management, and enhance vehicle performance.
First, decide whether to offer a limited or broad selector. The next part of the equation is all over the board. Some fleets stress depreciation and resale value as the most important factors in vehicle selection, while others focus on employee comfort and safety.
Save substantial tax dollars by titling your new luxury auto in your personal name.
With a proper financial analysis and only minor changes to its current plan, this small fleet can save big bucks.
From a purely financial standpoint, engine and trim level upgrades are a good bet. Safety and utility options are not.
Revised tax laws may influence fleet purchasing decisions. Remember the so-called $100,000 luxury SUV tax loophole? It’s been closed. Sport utility vehicles placed in service after Oct. 22, 2004 with a GVWR (gross vehicle weight rating) over 6,000 lbs are now limited to a business-use first year deduction of $25,000.
Not always. We studied different makes and models that disprove the prevailing wisdom.
Seven managers share their reasons for needing a GPS vehicle tracking system for their fleet. After installation, did reality meet expectations?
We editors of the Bobit fleet publications are constantly scouring the news and picking the brains of industry sources for trends in fleet management and the automotive world. As we embark on the second half of the decade, here is a brief compendium of some of our expectations.
Edmunds.com offers an invaluable tool to calculate and compare five-year ownership costs on hundreds of makes and models. But those values are based on assumptions for the average consumer. What about fleet?
Skyrocketing fuel prices prompted us to take a new look at diesel-powered pickups. We collected diesel wisdom from the experts and turned it into hard numbers, then combined them with current fuel prices and fixed and variable costs to answer our question.
The primary focus of fleet risk should not be to minimize liability exposure, though this is important. It should be to minimize crashes.
In order to manage fleet risk, you first need a system to determine which drivers are putting you over the line.
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