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Santa Rosa waste hauler North Bay Corp. is under fire after a city-funded audit identified a number of problems with the company's services, including old trucks, low recycling numbers, and a failure to properly replace trash cans.
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Sonoma County, Calif., has saved nearly $2.1 million after five years of outsourcing parts management and has authorized a two-year extension of the contract.
Read More →The Barrow County (Ga.) Board of Commissioners has approved a contract to outsource maintenance and management of vehicles to a Ford dealership. Commissioners voted 4-2 in favor of the plan.
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Do fleets that have outsourced their parts management really get the savings they estimated? A few years after their decision to outsource, three fleets share their experiences — and their results.
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Newberry County, S.C., has awarded Vector Fleet Management a five-year fleet maintenance contract estimated to cost $532,121 annually. The company has performed fleet maintenance for the county since 2009.
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The City of Lansing, Mich., council will discuss whether a contract with NAPA IBS for parts management violates a collective bargaining agreement with two union employees.
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The City of Wilmington, N.C., is considering providing fleet maintenance services to New Hanover County at five of the county’s fire stations. The contract would be for six months at an estimated cost of $25,000, which would be reimbursed.
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The Lake County, Fla., fleet management division has been charging too much for labor costs and too little for parts costs, according to an audit from the county’s inspector general’s office that analyzed Oct. 1, 2013 to April 30.
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The City of Newark, Del,, council approved spending $940,000 to replace four refuse trucks after voting down a controversial plan to outsource refuse collection.
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A study of the City of East Peoria, Ill., garbage collection costs showed the city can continue providing the service for $68,000 per year less than a private vendor’s proposal.
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