Author: maryellenkennedy

How the City of Toronto is Upgrading to More Efficient Fuel Operations In need of a more secure and accurate way of managing its fuel operations, the City of Toronto is in the process of upgrading its fuel sites used by the City’s vehicles and equipment. This multi-year initiative will replace outdated fuel sites with…

How The State of Utah Fleet Division Takes Action to Reduce Fuel Usage and Carbon Emissions Blessed with an abundance of natural resources including coal, minerals and oil, the State of Utah understands the vital importance of resource management. Because of this, the state’s leadership aims to lead the nation in the development of both…

How San Diego County Uses AssetWorks to Keep its Fleet Operations Competitive, Cost Effective and Well Controlled At certain times of the year in San Diego County, it is quite possible to sled down snow capped mountains in the morning and surf beachside in the sunny afternoon. Being able to take advantage of this vast…

How Metro Transit of King County, Washington is Reducing Pollution, Protecting the Environment and Leveraging FuelFocus Technology in the Process Located on the Puget Sound in Washington State, King County covers 2,134 square miles and is nearly twice as large as the average county in the U.S. With more than 1.8 million people, including the…

How the Metro Transit system of St. Louis leveraged AssetWorks FleetFocus and became the Federal Transit Administration’s model for best practices in the U.S. transit industry St. Louis, Missouri is the famed “gateway to the west” – a name that has stuck since the pioneer days when folks moved west through St. Louis via the…

How Gwinnett County Saves Money with FleetFocus and FuelFocus Home to over 750,000 residents, Gwinnett County, Georgia, has been one of America’s fastest-growing counties for the past twenty years. Located just thirty miles northeast of Atlanta, Gwinnett County is ideally located for residents who wish to enjoy the city life without missing out on the…

How Pennsylvania Saved Over $55 Million Systematically An empty car lot signifies a booming business. At least that was the conventional wisdom for Fleet Manager Steve Weidner during his nearly twenty year career in the rental car business before joining the Department of General Services (DGS) at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. But how did that…

How CityFleet of Portland uses AssetWorks FleetFocus Artists and musicians. Environmentalists and entrepreneurs. Portland, Oregon is a thriving city that prides itself on its beautiful surroundings and friendly, vibrant, creative community. There are two million people in the Portland metropolitan area and they live 78 miles from the Pacific Ocean and only 65 miles from…

How the City of Calgary maintains accuracy and safety using AssetWorks FuelFocus In Calgary, the folks who work for the City’s fleet services department have an added incentive for monitoring fuel usage on a daily basis: they could be held financially and criminally accountable for negligence in the event of a fuel leak. “When you…