Prince George’s County Social Services automate fleet management

System will auto-enforce policies, improve utilization, track vehicle location, manage PM schedules, more

CHANTILLY, VA, July 26, 2018 -- The Prince George’s County Department of Social Services has launched a project to automate the management of its 52-vehicle shared fleet to slash costs, improve efficiency, and enable the organization to better support its workers. The announcement was made today by Agile Fleet, creator of the FleetCommander fleet and motor pool system that is being implemented there.

“We are looking forward to taking full advantage of fleet technology to help us be more efficient with the County’s vehicles while taking steps to ensure both customer and worker safety,” says Director Gloria Brown Burnett.

The new system will enable the department to:

• Efficiently share vehicles among departments
• Manage vehicle and user profiles online
• Offer online vehicle reservations (currently managed with manual paper processes)
• Track key custody and provide round-the-clock vehicle access through an unstaffed, secure key box
• Collect vehicle usage data needed to reduce underutilized vehicles and right-size their fleet
• Track vehicle location using GPS technology to ensure safety of after-hours workers
• Communicate and enforce policies automatically as workers interact with the automated reservation system
• Issue timely preventative maintenance reminders using accurate odometer data tracked by the GPS component of the system
• Track and limit the use and expense of personal vehicles for official business
• Reduce incidents of late pick up and returns
• Automatically restrict availability of certain vehicles to qualified staff members
• Eliminate manual reporting processes

The Agile Fleet FleetCommander system has been in place at the Prince George’s County, MD Fleet Management Division in Upper Marlboro since 2013, and at their Largo site since 2015.