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.
How do you manage fleet risk on a strained budget? Leaders in the safety industry share ways to reduce crashes through target training and innovative rewards.
Winter storms, though routine in much of North America, are high-tempo, emergency operations for which government fleets must prepare and support.
Vinyl wraps on your fleet vehicles can extend your local word of mouth advertising to 30,000 impressions daily.
The small business owner’s solution to track his fleet is as close as his PC. And it won’t cost a thing.
Is it time to think about compact and mid-sized SUVs as a viable financial alternative to intermediate sedans for your fleet?
Motor vehicle records are the number one factor in determining who drives your company vehicles. Third-party vendors and the Internet have made obtaining them much easier.
Corporate procurement departments are becoming the engines of change in fleet management at Fortune 500 companies. The emergence of strategic sourcing in the 1990s is rapidly altering corporate purchasing and increasingly forcing change in fleet purchasing and the supplier selection process.
Keeping driver and third parties safe and reducing the risk of physical damage is grounded in some very basic concepts.
Any small business owner contemplating a TRAC lease needs to understand the mechanics of the lease and how to effectively negotiate one.
Gas is now averaging $2.20 a gallon here in Southern California, making the case for a fuel management program stronger than ever.
The aggressive fleet incentives that manufacturers are currently offering commercial fleets present the opportunity to give serious consideration to substituting a compact SUV on a selector in lieu of a traditional intermediate-size fleet sedan, so long as it is capable of fulfilling the fleet application. When you compare lifecycle costs during a 36-month service life, a compact SUV actually has a lower monthly total cost. Interestingly, they are also less expensive at a shorter 24-month cycle.
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