Practical fleet judgment from fleet professionals.
The Fleet Success Show is a trade-focused series about running safer, more efficient fleets. Recent episodes work through fraud controls, sublet decisions, replacement planning, motor pools, technician shortages, status strategy, and communicating fleet needs to leadership.
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The Fleet Success Show is a practical series about the mechanics and leadership of modern fleet management. Its center of gravity is not automotive enthusiasm; it is the daily work of making fleets safer, more reliable, better documented, and easier to explain to stakeholders. Recent episodes move between shop-level decisions and executive-level communication. One conversation breaks down fleet fraud through reporting, behavioral data, transaction controls, and open-loop versus closed-loop transactions. Another weighs outsourcing by asking what makes sense today, what repeats often enough to justify tooling and training, and what specialty work belongs with outside vendors. The show often returns to technician development without treating it as a slogan. If a shop cannot maintain its core equipment, the discussion usually points back to training, process, tooling, workload, or planning. Replacement planning gets similar treatment. Old vehicles do not just raise maintenance costs; they create spare-unit pressure, staffing demand, parts strain, shop-space problems, and leadership risk. The show is also interested in communication. Fleet leaders are pushed to turn KPIs into context that matters to leadership: money, risk mitigation, service delivery, and community impact. Motor pool episodes make the same point through utilization and mission fit. A shared pool fails when it does not provide the vehicles departments actually need. Software episodes focus on open-minded implementation, automation, integration, useful data, and leaving stale information behind. The show’s conversational style is relaxed, but the advice is usually concrete. It suits listeners who want field-tested fleet judgment rather than abstract management theory. Across the recent run, the series frames fleet success as a combination of stakeholder satisfaction, intentional culture, resource efficiency, and risk management.
Made for: The show is for fleet managers, fleet leaders, shop supervisors, analysts, and operations teams responsible for vehicles, maintenance, budgets, and availability. It especially suits professionals who learned fleet management on the job.
What sets it apart: The show connects shop realities to leadership decisions, showing how maintenance, software, data, staffing, risk, and stakeholder communication affect each other. Its strongest episodes turn everyday fleet problems into defensible operating choices.
Welcome to the Fleet Success Show, a podcast dedicated to talking about the fundamentals, standards, and best practices that empower today's fleets to achieve fleet success. Let's get into the show!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Fleet technology becomes concrete through conversations about controls, data, availability, implementation, and the management decisions that make systems useful.
The Fleet Success Show treats fleet software as an operational system whose value depends on the decisions around it. Mark Canton, Josh Turley, and Facundo Tessara lead practitioner conversations about vehicle availability, fraud controls, data quality, and the communication…
The motor pool meets a football team, and your tidy vehicle categories stop looking so tidy.
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A practical look at fleet fraud controls, reporting, and the limits that help reduce misuse.
This episode keeps fleet fraud in clear view by staying close to the day-to-day mechanics: behavioral data, reporting, fuel limits, and the split between closed loop and open loop spending.
A practical look at when fleet maintenance work should stay in-house and when outside vendors make more sense.
Outsourcing in fleet maintenance gets a clear, practical look, with Mark Canton and Jake Johnson sorting through how shops should think about sublet work. Johnson's point is less about a fixed rule than a daily judgment call: what belongs in-house now may not belong there later.
Fleet leadership depends on translating technical measures into budget, risk mitigation, and service delivery.
The Fleet Success Show frames fleet management as a matter of translation. Facundo Tessara of RTA and Bradley Northrup of the city of Carlsbad, California, look at how fleet professionals can turn familiar KPIs into language senior leadership can use: budget impact, risk…
Fleet recognition is framed as a useful tool for goals, measurement, and learning.
Mark Canton and Bill Schenkel return with a discussion that treats recognition programs as more than a badge of honor. The conversation moves through the 100 Best Fleets, the Greenest Fleets of America, and the coming Safety Fleets of America, showing how fleets can share both…
A practical fleet right-sizing discussion rooted in mission, communication, utilization, and one very large offensive line.
Motor pools can seem like a spreadsheet exercise until a department explains what the work really requires. This Fleet Success Show episode frames right-sizing around mission, communication, and utilization, with Mark Canton and Tony Yankovic using an athletic department's…
A fleet-status discussion that makes availability feel operational, not abstract.
Mark Canton and Andrew French shape this Fleet Success Show installment into a practical look at vehicle statuses and why availability only matters when the labels behind it are consistent.
A practical case for replacing fleet vehicles on time.
Mark Canton uses this Fleet Success Show conversation with Steve Saltsgiver to build a steady, practical case for replacement planning. The argument is simple: replace vehicles on time, keep maintenance and repair costs in check, and avoid the growing strain of holding onto a…
Practical fleet software advice centered on process, automation, integrations, and data retention.
Mark Canton and Janelle Hansen steer the conversation toward a simple question: what should fleet managers expect from software now, and where should it actually sit in day-to-day work? The answer lands on practical ground.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Episode 224 of The Fleet Success Show features Josh Turley and WEX's Will Fitzgerald discussing fleet fraud, account takeover, and how AI is changing the attack surface.
RTA's Mark Canton talks outsourcing and sublet strategy with Jake Johnson, a 20-year trucking-fleet veteran who has run shops from wrench-turner to service manager.
Facundo Tessara, RTA's Fleet Success Ambassador, interviews Bradley Northrup, Fleet Superintendent for the City of Carlsbad, whose fleet was named the nation's #1 small fleet last year.
Mark Canton talks with Bill Schenkel, NAFA Fleet Management Association's CEO, about a 3,500-member group split 41% government and 37% corporate fleet managers.
RTA's Mark Canton hosts fleet consultant Tony Yankovic for a deep dive on motor pools -- shared vehicle programs that let organizations reserve and rotate assets across departments instead of assigning one vehicle per team.
Mark Canton and Andrew French use The Fleet Success Show episode 219 to argue that fleet availability begins with how a shop labels assets and work orders.
The Fleet Success Show episode with Mark Canton and Steve Saltsgiver centers on replacement planning as the lever that drives maintenance, staffing, availability, and cash flow.
The Fleet Success Show episode centers on Mark Canton and Janelle Hansen's argument that fleet management is changing fast because newer managers expect software to deliver automation, cleaner data, and quicker reporting.
Fleet expert Matt Betts discusses the biggest mistake fleets make with safety and how to fix it.
Josh Turley and Mark Canton discuss the challenges and best practices for fleet managers when deciding how to handle old data without damaging relationships.
Fleet experts discuss the dangers of outsourcing fleet management without proper oversight, emphasizing the need to verify invoices and maintain control.
Mark Canton vents about frustrations with OEM service centers, including unnecessary upselling and high comeback rates, and discusses using SLAs to regain control.
Fleet professionals discuss how to develop technicians into future fleet leaders through coaching and mentorship.