Mercury has conducted fleet management consulting assignments for more than 40 higher education institutions. It is not uncommon for a large state university to have 1,500 or more vehicles and pieces of equipment in its fleet to support academic and athletic programs, buildings and grounds maintenance, public safety, and transportation operations.

Mercury has conducted projects for more than 100 federal, state, provincial, and local government public safety agencies in the US and Canada. These include corrections departments; urban and wildlands fire departments; emergency medical services agencies; police departments; and sheriff’s departments/offices. One of the more common requests we receive from these agencies is for determining optimal replacement cycles for police patrol vehicles and various types of fire apparatus. We also have written widely circulated reports on the costs and benefits of police department assigned vehicle and take-home vehicle programs. In addition, Mercury has worked with almost two-thirds of the law enforcement components of the US Department of Homeland Security and other federal government executive branch departments.

It has been Mercury’s experience that many utility companies, as regulated monopolies, are not motivated to optimize fleet costs to the same degree as most other public and private-sector fleet owners with which we work. Rather, they tend to focus on maximizing fleet performance – asset suitability, availability, reliability, safety, etc. – in recognition of the fact that these tools are used to maintain critical infrastructure whose costs frequently run into the billions of dollars. That said, the utility industry is grappling with the same broad challenges confronting most other fleet-dependent industries – the growing complexity of automotive technology, mechanic shortages and skills erosion, and the demand for data-driven fleet management practices – leading to a substantial increase in demand for independent fleet management advisory services in recent years.

Mercury has provided such services to more than 40 government and investor-owned electric, gas, and water federal utilities.

Mercury and its network of international affiliates have provided fleet management consulting and/or training services to an array of organizations around the world. This includes US-based organizations with global fleets – multinational corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, government agencies such as NASA, the US Navy, and US State Department, and NGOs such as the United Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – and fleet owners located in countries such as Australia, Belize, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Haiti, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Mercury welcomes opportunities to partner with consulting, research, and professional development organizations throughout the world. Our approach to performing consulting assignments outside of North America usually involves collaborating with local firms that have the physical presence, market knowledge, and client relationships needed to serve organizations in a particular country or region effectively and affordably, but wish to leverage Mercury’s experience from working in the largest, deepest, most diverse fleet market in the world.