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Many
organizations, both large and small,
invest large sums of money in the acquisition and maintenance of
vehicles and equipment. Moreover, the assets in these fleets are used to perform a wide range of
services that are mission critical. In order to deliver these services
these organizations focus on achieving high
level of fleet availability, safety, and performance by implementing
sound fleet management practices. As an industry
leading fleet management consulting firm we understand the challenges that are presented to public and private sector fleet
operations.
For over 100 years our team of fleet management
consultants has been assisting some of the most mission-critical repair
and maintenance operations in the world, such as government
agencies, school districts, special districts, public safety
departments, utility companies, commercial trucking companies, shipping
companies, private companies, independent maintenance firms, and small
businesses. Moreover, our consulting team has served hundreds of private and public sector
fleet operations, including large cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Houston, and Portland - almost half the states - police and other public safety agencies such as
Los Angeles Police, Broward County Sheriff, Florida, Sacramento Police,
Alaska State Patrol - major utility companies such as Pacific Gas
and Electric, Hawaiian Electric, and Georgia Power - and
Fortune 500 companies such as Sprint and Walt Disney World Company. At
the other end of the spectrum, we have worked with fleets of as few as
100 vehicles. Learn
more about our fleet consulting team.

Additionally, our fleet management consultants have
served operations with extremely diverse vehicle and equipment
inventories - weed eaters, chain saws, small and large generators,
military tanks, sewer vacs, tandem trucks, school buses, police cars,
ATVs, snow blowers, cars, pickup trucks, helicopters, planes, golf
carts, air boats, hover craft, and much more. This has given our firm a
full appreciation and experience dealing with the daily demands and expectations that most fleet
maintenance operations share in common. Moreover, we are also sensitive
to the operational, managerial, and
political environments that make each fleet manager's job unique. We do
not employ a "cookie cutter" approach to our fleet management consulting engagements.
Rather, we tailor each consulting project to the particular circumstances, needs,
and objectives of our clients. We are passionate about seeing our
recommendations implemented, so we work hard to understand the
communication channels and decision making processes through which a
fleet manager must navigate if he or she is to effect real business
process changes and tangible, measurable improvements in performance.
In addition to extensive experience, our fleet
consulting professionals have advanced certifications and education in areas of
discipline that are frequently required of a fleet manager and staff -
such as,
financial management, public administration, business administration,
networking engineering, and certified automotive fleet manager (CAFM).
Virtually no other fleet consulting firm in the industry has the
combination of experience, education, and certifications that we bring
to every project. In fact our fleet consultants routinely speak at
conferences, seminars, training sessions, and workshops for professional
organizations on advanced management topics - such as, fleet
replacement planning, fuel program assessment and development, managed
competition, fleet
maintenance outsourcing, and fleet operation best practices.
Learn more about
our fleet consulting services.

One of the key factors that has made Mercury a leading provider of fleet
consulting services in the industry has been our determination to
provide services whose value far exceeds their costs. Our focus on every
project is to develop and secure management's commitment to implementing
real-world solutions that produce the greatest return on investment for
our client - regardless of the size or complexity of their fleet or the
challenges and opportunities they are facing.
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mercury news |
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10/26/07 - Mercury
awarded a contract to assist the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) with the creation of
an electronic tool to enable the right sizing of its
fleet. The effort is part of a Federal-wide initiative
known as a Vehicle Allocation Methodology (VAM). The
electronic tool will require vehicle users to justify
retention of low use vehicles, or the addition of new
vehicles, via a series of questions whose answers
automatically feed into the electronic tool. The tool
then uses proprietary algorithms to determine whether
the vehicle is approved, and if so, what type of vehicle
is recommended (an automated vehicle selector).
Mercury's contract is in cooperation with Runzheimer
International. |
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10/22/07 - The
Nielsen Company, the world's leading provider of
marketing information, audience measurement, and
business media products and services, has contracted
with Mercury to review and make recommendations
regarding their vehicle replacement criteria and
retention cycle in an effort to reduce the Company’s
total cost of vehicle ownership. |
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10/5/07 - FLD of
Delray Beach, Florida has retained Mercury to recruit a
business development manager specializing in the federal
government segment of the fleet market. This unique
position will be responsible for seeking new business
opportunities to remarket vehicles for the many branches
of the federal government. FLD is recognized nationally
for providing unique and comprehensive vehicle
remarketing services to banks, financial institutions,
credit unions and commercial fleets. |
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10/3/07 - Mercury is
selected to host Collective Data's fleet management
information system for Time Warner, a leading
media and entertainment company, whose businesses
include Internet and interactive systems, cable
services, television networks and publishing. Mercury
provides application hosting services to six fleet
software development companies. |
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10/1/07 – U.S. Customs
and Border Protection awards Mercury a contract to
provide technical services related to upfitting new
vehicles. CBP purchases thousands of vehicles each year
which must be retrofitted to meet the mission of
protecting our borders. MAI will assist CBP by helping
to set-up additional vendor locations to increase
production capacity and speed the preparation of
vehicles for service. |
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