When qualified applicants became harder to find, the City of Madison turned to apprenticeships to develop its own technicians. Eight years later, the program offers practical lessons on recruiting young talent, making mentorship work and building a…
Retail diesel added 7.6 cents while regular gasoline slipped, leaving diesel $2.08 a gallon above gasoline. Fleets that budgeted…
Control costs and properly equip officers by matching vehicle capabilities, size, powertrain and upfits to the work they…
No other U.S. law enforcement agency has put a piloted electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to work, according to the…
California’s Department of Transportation spent $106 million on 983 Rivian electric vehicles under a state contract, while…
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When Miami’s fleet team began tackling its aging operation, the biggest problem was hard to…
When Shae Davies arrived at the City of Aurora, Colorado, she found hundreds of police vehicle…
When Beth Casillas arrived at the City of Buckeye, Arizona, in 2020, she didn’t inherit a fleet…
Many fleet divisions report to Public Works despite managing and servicing vehicles from…
Twenty-two ballot measures that fund or govern bus-running transit systems go before voters Nov. 3 in 11 states, from a $133,000 dial-a-ride levy renewal in Benton Harbor, Michigan, to a $14 billion Bay Area sales tax. Sort and filter every measure in the…
Commercial vehicles, long exempt from safety standards applied to passenger cars, are now showing the gap in a new round of crash avoidance ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), and most cargo vans and heavy-duty work pickups are…
The Ram 3500 has a 31.9% chance of reaching 250,000 miles, nearly three times the 11.1% average for pickups, according to the 2026 Longest Lasting Cars Study from iSeeCars Research, which analyzed data from more than 395 million vehicles. The average…
RC Mowers introduced its RECONX autonomous mower at Equip Expo, along with snowplow, salt spreader, sprayer and cultivator attachments that put its REAPER slope mower to work after mowing season.
More than 60 educational sessions and 130-plus speakers are scheduled for NAFA Fleet Management Association’s 2027 Institute & Expo, set for April 5-7 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Registration and hotel…
“Our worst mechanic is better than the best mechanic in private industry.” That’s what Angelo Mancuso, fleet manager for the City of Brampton, Ontario, told me within minutes of my visit. Now, I’ve heard a lot of fleet managers brag about their teams. (I…
General Motors outlined a multipart technology strategy at its GM Forward 2026 event, linking AI-accelerated development, a fourth-generation electric vehicle platform, a Central Compute Unit delivering 40 times more computing power with 30% less wiring…
Three government-facing workflow categories and four platform components mark the scope of Google Public Sector’s Gemini for government services, which the company unveiled October 20 at its Google Public Sector Summit ’26 in Washington. The platform is…
NAFA Fleet Safety Awards for 2026 went to five fleets at the program’s top Platinum tier, with public-sector fleets well represented across the Gold, Silver and Bronze categories. NAFA said its award criteria, developed by fleet safety professionals…
The Colorado Department of Transportation has deployed crash protection trucks around the clock on Interstate 25, Interstate 225 and Interstate 70 in Denver, with each unit carrying a rear-mounted attenuator and arrow board to shield first responders at…
