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Fleet Services articles

  • President's Message
  • Sep 2012
  • Technical Committee News
  • Sep 2012
  • Fleet Services Committee announces new replacement planning publication
  • Sep 2012
  • CPFP Campbell named Fleet Manager of the Year
  • Sep 2012
  • City of Ames, Iowa: Police cars replaced by need, not by time or miles
  • Sep 2012
  • Road map to fleet success
  • Sep 2012
  • How to reach out to the media
  • Sep 2012
  • Fleet consolidation
  • Sep 2012
  • Purchasing and installing publicly-accessible electric vehicle charging stations
  • Sep 2012
  • Tool policies for employees
  • Sep 2012
  • Six purchasing tips for fleet professionals
  • Sep 2012
  • Fueling Phoenix's pasts, present and future
  • Mar 2012
  • Funding your clean vehicle fleet
  • Sep 2011
  • Do you know what's really going on in your fleet?
  • Sep 2011
  • The positive side of a down economy
  • Sep 2011
  • President's Message
  • Aug 2011
  • Fleet consolidation and centralization
  • Aug 2011
  • Prioritizing work when short on technicians
  • Aug 2011
  • The fleet professional's role in emergency management
  • Aug 2011
  • Reducing the cost of operations by insourcing
  • Aug 2011
  • Operator/Shop Communication
  • Aug 2011
  • New mandates for CDL and driver training
  • Aug 2011
  • Advancing transportation electrification in Snohomish County, Washington
  • Aug 2011
  • Eco-Driving/Modifying Driver Behavior
  • Aug 2011
  • Fixed Fuel Price contracts: a "networking" success story
  • Aug 2011
  • Community relations when there is no money!
  • Aug 2011
  • Municipalities taking a fresh look at how their fleet management programs function
  • Aug 2011
  • Writing specs for winter
  • Aug 2011
  • Polk County's innovative response to high fuel costs
  • Sep 2010
  • Ames, Iowa, is changing itself from red and black to green
  • Sep 2010
  • Toward 100% implementation of bio-fuels and electric vehicles
  • Sep 2010
  • Spec'ing your work trucks for optimum fuel economy
  • Sep 2010
  • TOT theory for improving technicians' productivity
  • Sep 2010
  • Life Cycle Costing
  • Sep 2010
  • John Deere isn't the only thing "green" in Moline
  • Sep 2010
  • Leaning and greening public works fleets
  • Sep 2010
  • 2010 light truck rollout: more bang for the municipal buck
  • Aug 2010
  • Wilsonville Public Works Department lives up to its motto
  • Sep 2009
  • Educational opportunities that await the fleet professional
  • Aug 2009
  • Fleet Services Committee provides menu of services for APWA members
  • Aug 2009
  • Greening Denver's fleet
  • Aug 2009
  • Fleets as First Responders
  • Aug 2009
  • Fayetteville's biodiesel experience
  • Aug 2009
  • Testing hydrogen generators to boost fuel efficiency
  • Aug 2009
  • Shining a light on fuel prices
  • Aug 2009
  • City of Beloit, Wisconsin: Homegrown experiment on its way to saving city dollars
  • Aug 2009
  • Hoover's police cars are fueling America's future
  • Aug 2009
  • Going green saves green: how improving driving behavior helps the environment and the bottom line
  • Jun 2009
  • Is the price of fuel getting you down? Here are 37 ways to control fuel costs
  • Sep 2008
  • How to develop vehicle equipment specifications
  • Sep 2008
  • Hybrid trash truck to hit Denver's streets
  • Sep 2008
  • Academies nurture best and brightest in science and math
  • Sep 2008
  • Cooperative Purchasing Agreement Benefits
  • Sep 2008
  • Small buses finding bigger role in public and private fleets
  • Sep 2008
  • More than 40 professionals earn APWA Fleet Certification
  • Jul 2008
  • Your roap map to success: writing a business plan
  • Aug 2007
  • City of Naperville's Vehicle Replacement Scoring Model
  • Aug 2007
  • President's Message
  • Aug 2007
  • Washington Insight
  • Aug 2007
  • Technical Committee News
  • Aug 2007
  • Get a big bang for your fleet buck
  • Aug 2007
  • Winnipeg paves the way in fleet management
  • Aug 2007
  • Scenario planning for fleet managers
  • Aug 2007
  • The Magical Mystery Tour of CDL
  • Aug 2007
  • The Escambia County Road Prison Program
  • Jul 2007
  • President's Message
  • Aug 2006
  • Technical Committee News
  • Aug 2006
  • So, you want to be a Certified Public Fleet Professional
  • Aug 2006
  • APWA Book Review
  • Aug 2006
  • Insourcing for an additional revenue source
  • Aug 2006
  • City of Troy's insourcing experience
  • Aug 2006
  • Clean Diesel: Funding opportunities for cleaning your fleet and community
  • Aug 2006
  • Using eBay to sell vehicles
  • Aug 2006
  • Nitrogen tire inflation, a worthwhile alternative
  • Aug 2006
  • Colorado NIMS implementation
  • Aug 2006
  • Kansas City to host 2006 Congress
  • Dec 2005
  • New APWA staff
  • Sep 2005
  • Providing training opportunities at the chapter level
  • Sep 2005
  • Children to discover the world of public works with new K-5 public works curriculum
  • Sep 2005
  • Diversity Committee sees positive results, prepares for new challenges
  • Sep 2005
  • APWA Book Review
  • Sep 2005
  • Creative financing and fleet rotation
  • Sep 2005
  • President's Message
  • Aug 2005
  • Technical Committee News
  • Aug 2005
  • APWA developing Public Fleet Manager Certification Program
  • Aug 2005
  • Planning and designing a fleet facility
  • Aug 2005
  • Fuel and fleet: How they are a-changin'
  • Aug 2005
  • Making the job easier
  • Aug 2005
  • If you organize it, they will come
  • Aug 2005
  • Historic "Old Sacramento" accessibility project
  • Apr 2005
  • Technical Committee News
  • Jan 2005
  • Wisconsin celebrates 50th
  • Jan 2005
  • Leadership lessons I learned from Charley, Frances and Ivan
  • Jan 2005
  • So, you want to host a Congress?
  • Jan 2005
  • Road map to an effective diversity action plan
  • Jan 2005
  • Technical Committee News
  • Dec 2004
  • Knowledge-Based Asset Management: A decade of progress
  • Dec 2004
  • GPS/AVL now within reach for public works departments
  • Sep 2004
  • Technical Committee News
  • Aug 2004
  • What a fleet manager should be looking for in a fleet management system
  • Aug 2004
  • How do you handle a fleet disaster?
  • Aug 2004
  • How to pat yourself on the back without breaking your arm
  • Aug 2004
  • The relationship of maintenance to vehicle fires
  • Aug 2004
  • Cost understanding and awareness: Key steps in having a cost-competitive fleet management program
  • Aug 2004
  • Why every government agency should embrace the lean process
  • Apr 2004
  • 2004 Editorial Calendar
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • Member Profile
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • Stormwater program funding in California
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • You need a bond issue passed: Is your community ready to vote for it?
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • Good project management is the key to the privatization decision
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • A novel approach to sewer capacity fees
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • Lessons learned under "fire"
  • Nov 2003
  • National challenge for fleet managers: "Best service at lowest cost"
  • Nov 2003
  • Technical Committee News
  • Nov 2003
  • Planning to remodel your facility? Read on
  • Nov 2003
  • Attracting, recruiting and retaining technicians
  • Nov 2003
  • Monitoring fleet utilization for the justification of equipment needs
  • Nov 2003
  • Strategic approaches to tight budgets
  • Nov 2003
  • Awards 2003
  • Oct 2003
  • City of Greeley brings vehicle maintenance in-house
  • Aug 2003
  • President's Message
  • Nov 2002
  • Washington Insight
  • Nov 2002
  • Technical Committee News
  • Nov 2002
  • Ask Ann
  • Oct 2002
  • Washington Insight
  • Oct 2002
  • New board member appointed
  • Oct 2002
  • Member Services Hotline provides member benefit
  • Oct 2002
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems and Winter Maintenance Operations Management
  • Oct 2002
  • Zero velocity and salt brine: One state garage's experience
  • Oct 2002
  • Are you considering a change to biodiesel?
  • Aug 2002
  • What everyone always wanted to know about their public works department but were afraid to ask
  • Aug 2002
  • Rehabbing equipment
  • Aug 2002
  • Construction Career Days for APWA
  • Aug 2002
  • APWA partners with MATHCOUNTS
  • Oct 2001
  • All assets are not alike under GASB 34
  • Sep 2001
  • Simply good business
  • Sep 2001
  • University of Connecticut graduate students help local agencies through use of APWA's self-assessment process
  • Sep 2001
  • Who is doing what, where, and when in the Right-of-Way: New directions in infrastructure collaboration
  • Sep 2001
  • Canadian communities celebrate National Public Works Week
  • Sep 2001
  • Diversity discussions enhance awareness at APWA
  • Sep 2001
  • APWA Book Reviews
  • Aug 2001
  • How to develop vehicle equipment specifications
  • Aug 2001
  • Equipment maintenance in Greeley, Colorado
  • Aug 2001
  • Cost saving strategies using synthetic oil
  • Aug 2001
  • City of Yuma experiments with hybrid vehicles
  • Aug 2001
  • The new generation of environmental issues: extended producer responsibility
  • Mar 2001
  • Parts Outsourcing: The Lynchburg way
  • Aug 2000
  • HR solutions for the technician-mechanic shortage
  • Aug 2000
  • Asset replacement planning and financing: A key strategy for controlling fleet costs
  • Aug 2000
  • The Digital Divide: Does your fleet management organization have a plan for staying on the right side?
  • Aug 2000
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