NAFA Announces Endorsement of Utilimarc Fleet Benchmarking Products

PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It's said that knowledge is power, but for fleet professionals knowledge means dollars and cents as well. Fleet managers seek quality benchmarking data to compare how their fleet stacks up to the competition and to find new ways to provide cost-savings to their organization. NAFA Fleet Management Association is proud to announce its endorsement of Utilimarc® fleet benchmarking products, products that offer fleet managers the data they need.

Utilimarc® is a national consulting group that offers internal and external fleet benchmarking, electronic reporting, and electronic analytical tools for large diverse fleets nationwide. Benchmarking is a key to maximizing revenues while reducing costs. Utilimarc's® data analysis helps fleet managers develop fleet performance awareness and validate fleet effectiveness.

"NAFA has a need to provide access to benchmarking data for its members," said NAFA's Executive Director Phillip E. Russo, CAE. "To date, we have accomplished this via surveys, but fleet managers are requesting more specific and complex data. Utilimarc's® in-depth benchmarking databases and services are outstanding and one-of-a-kind."

Available in electronic online formats (making information available to the professional 24/7), the Utilimarc® methodology may enhance fleet operations by allowing the user to:

• Compare fleet performance internally between departments or agencies or externally to your peers by measuring important fleet data such as equipment age, mechanic wages, vehicle utilization, and more.
• Develop electronic reports such as cost per mile, underutilized equipment, and operating costs.
• Develop the ideal lifecycle modeling using the Utilimarc® lifecycle model and electronic analysis.

The Association put Utilimarc's® product through a comprehensive review process and is confident that Utilimarc's® methodologies meet all the criteria and guidelines set by NAFA to provide good benchmarking data and help achieve fleet operational excellence.

About NAFA's Institute & Expo

The 2012 I&E takes place April 21-24 at the America's Center in St. Louis, MO. The event program, created by fleet managers for fleet managers, features an expo floor with more than 250 exhibitors; over 60 hours of fleet training, education, and workshops; and fan favorites such as the Public Safety Roadeo and the Green Zone. Keynote presentations will be made by Canadian automotive journalist Jim Kenzie and Dr. Peter Bishop, PhD. Media sponsors for NAFA's 2012 I&E include Automotive Digest, Canadian Automotive Fleet, CAMAUTO, Fleet Digest, FleetFOCUS, Fleet Maintenance, Fleet Management, Fleet Management Weekly, Fleet Perspectives, FLEETSolutions, International Fleet World, Light & Medium Truck, Naylor, Nex Gen Transportation, Fleet Owner, and PoliceOne.com. For more information, visit http://www.nafainstitute.org.

About NAFA Fleet Management Association

NAFA Fleet Management Association is a not-for-profit, individual membership professional society serving the needs of members who manage fleets of sedans, public safety vehicles, trucks, and buses of all types and sizes, and a wide range of military and off-road equipment for organizations across the globe. NAFA is the association for the vehicle fleet management profession. NAFA's Full and Associate Members are responsible for the specification, acquisition, maintenance, and remarketing of more than 3.5 million vehicles -- including in excess of 1.1 million trucks. In fact, NAFA Members across the North American continent have more than 350,000 medium- and heavy-duty trucks in their fleets, totaling more than $21 billion dollars in assets for medium- and heavy-duty trucks alone. For more information, visit http://www.nafa.org.

Contact: Gary Wien
NAFA Fleet Management Association
609-986-1053
[email protected]

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SOURCE NAFA Fleet Management Association