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Government & Public Agencies

The budget cliff is here. Your fleet plan should come first.

Cities, counties, and districts are being asked to do more with less. A budget shortfall doesn't mean your agency should stop moving — it means your fleet has to get smarter.

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A nice bonus: our awarded NPPGov cooperative contract. Competitively solicited and publicly awarded, it speeds up getting units — but the real value is the plan behind them.
Less budget. Same growing service demands.

Delaying fleet replacement feels safe. It isn't.

When budgets get cut, fleet replacement is often the first thing pushed back. But old vehicles cost more to repair, downtime gets worse, departments keep "spares" just to survive, and depreciation doesn't wait for your budget to recover. We help agencies answer the questions that matter now:

Which assets do we actually need?
Which units cost more than they're worth?
What should be replaced, reassigned, sold, or delayed?
Which purchases should become leases?
Where can we cut cost without cutting service?
How do we avoid taking a cut with a bloated fleet?

Fleet management is the plan. Leasing is one tool inside it.

Fleet review

We analyze age, use, mileage, condition, downtime, repair cost, and department need — so decisions start from facts.

Right-size the fleet

What should stay, what should go, and what can be shared, sold, or reassigned. Don’t take a budget cut with a bloated fleet.

Replacement strategy

We prioritize what matters most: public safety, core services, high-repair-cost units, and mission-critical equipment.

Cash management

When cash is tight, leasing reduces expense to depreciation as incurred — not the full cost upfront — so essential services keep moving.

Procurement & upfit

We source vehicles and equipment, coordinate vendors, and manage upfits — with our NPPGov cooperative contract to speed things up.

Liquidation & asset recovery

Surplus and outdated assets turned into cash before they lose more value.

Municipal leasing

Fit the fleet to the budget year — not the other way around.

Municipal lease structures with non-appropriation language, payments aligned to fiscal years, and lifecycle plans your council can actually read. We've written more than $15M in municipal leases since 2024.

Non-appropriation lease language
Fiscal-year payment alignment
Council-ready cost documentation
Police, public works & first-responder upfitting
Heavy and specialty equipment
Departments & decision-makers

Fleet management that bridges departments and electeds.

We show what units are needed and how they're utilized — so executives and elected officials can see exactly how departments are serving their communities, and departments can count on planned replacements instead of budget gamesmanship.

For executives & electeds

Clear visibility into what units are needed and what's actually utilized — a fact-based picture of how each department serves the community, not a stack of competing requests.

For departments

A commitment to planned replacements — no more making do with obsolete, unsafe equipment, and no more padding requests because you know the budget will get cut.

Fact-based, not pressure-based

Transparency, peer data, and analysis put everyone on the same page — so fleet decisions get made on facts, not on who pushed hardest in the budget meeting.

Speed to service

Turn-key units in weeks. Not months and months.

By coordinating vehicle deliveries and upfit vendors ourselves, we compress the usual order-to-service timeline. Our planning gets assets in service — not sitting in holding lots waiting on the next vendor in line.

Deliveries and upfits scheduled together, not sequentially
Upfit vendors coordinated under one plan
Units arrive duty-ready — day one
No assets depreciating in a holding lot
Order to in-service
The usual wayMonths and months
Dealer → holding lot → upfitter queue → more waiting → delivery
With UnifiedWeeks
Delivery and upfit coordinated as one plan — turn-key on arrival

The budget pressure is real. The planning needs to start now.

Waiting doesn't protect your agency. Get a plan before the cliff gets steeper.

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Unified Fleet & Equipment

Fleet management, procurement, leasing, upfitting, and remarketing for government and commercial fleets nationwide.

Locations
Salt Lake City, UT
Folsom, CA
Wichita, KS
Huntsville, AL
Bradenton, FL
Olympia, WA
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