Fleet Management Weekly

By Steve Bender, President and Owner, Fleet Street Remarketing September 16, 2026 When our marketing brain trust sat down late last year to discuss our 2026 campaign, there was a lot going on. A lot. Not just at Fleet Street, the remarketing company I’ve owned for almost 20 years. But also in my personal life, as our family struggled to help our son Sean recover from the devastating effects of being struck by a boat in the Summer of 2024.

Private corporate and commercial fleets considering a move away from gasoline or diesel have a new opportunity to offset the cost of putting propane autogas vehicles into service. Through the Propane Autogas Research Program, qualified fleets can receive a payment of $7,500 per eligible vehicle, along with up to $10,000 for site preparation when new fueling infrastructure is needed.

Why the Decisions Made Before a Vehicle Hits the Road Matter as Much as the Ones Made After By Mark Hogland, President, Moventum Fleet Management September 16, 2026 Mark Hogland, Moventum President In my last article, I wrote about why the strongest fleet programs begin with strategy. Strategy is the foundation. It tells you what your fleet needs to accomplish, how to structure it, and where flexibility matters most as your business changes. But strategy alone doesn’t put a vehicle on the road.

During National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, September 13–19, the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is recognizing the bobtail and transport drivers who safely and reliably deliver propane to homes, businesses, farms and communities across the country. “What stands out in these nominations is the trust propane drivers earn every day,” said Bridget Kidd, chief operating officer at PERC.

One company, one record of how the physical world behaves, and safety analytics built to be within reach of any organization working to make roads safer Nexar and Nauto are now Empiric Earth. The two companies, both founded in 2015, have combined and now operate under a single name as of today. Empiric Earth holds an open record of how the physical world behaves, built on more than 10 billion miles of observed driving and 60 million edge cases across 98% of US roads and 50 or more countries.

Analysis expands from approximately 19 million to 500 million data points, providing greater observability into how charging assets behave and how operational actions help identify and resolve root causes. Commercial fleet electrification is making charging reliability an operational requirement. Longest charger outages are driven by diagnostic delays, fragmented data, and coordination across organizations rather than the physical repair itself.

Motor oil ultimately comes out of the same barrel that also gives us gasoline and diesel, and right now, refineries can earn more money finishing crude into gas. It probably won’t come as any great surprise that even Costco, the wholesale retailer renowned for low prices has tightened its purse strings with regard to its own motor oil.

Your fleet keeps your business moving. But is it also tying up capital? For organizations that own vehicles outright, significant equity can sit inside the fleet. Capital that could potentially be redirected toward growth, operations, or other business priorities. A sale-leaseback can provide a way to access that equity without taking vehicles out of service. Join Moventum Fleet Management for a practical, 30-minute webinar on how to evaluate the opportunity.

Copart is known for cars that insurers have written off. That’s why its new $1.9 billion purchase of ACV Auctions is important. The auction house known for salvaged cars is buying its way into the used-car pipeline before a vehicle becomes a total loss. ACV currently runs a digital dealer-to-dealer wholesale marketplace. Copart says it moves more than 800,000 vehicles per year, has over 22,000 active buyers, and handled roughly $10 billion in gross merchandise value during 2025.

New EV buyers paid an average of $54,813 in August, according to Kelley Blue Book. That was down 1.2% from July and 2.7% year over year. Meanwhile, the industry-wide ATP rose to $50,089 – up 0.5% month over month and 1.9% year over year. August was the first month in 2026 that the average new-vehicle price topped $50,000. That left EVs with a 9.4% price premium in August, down sharply from more than 16% a year earlier.