The 2026 Conference of Automotive Remarketing convened with a mandate to involve a new constituency — fleet managers — and an updated mission to demonstrate unrealized value in de-fleeted vehicles.
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Fleet managers choose vehicle color options for a variety of practical, economical, and psychological reasons. Choices should be made with an eye to the future and the consumers who ultimately buy out-of-service fleet vehicles.
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Higher fuel prices, ongoing increases in replacement tire prices, more expensive motor oils required by OEMs, increased parts prices, and rising labor rates in high-cost markets have put upward pressure on operating costs.
Read More →This article presents a timeline of the fleet remarketing industry.
Read More →SmartAuction is an online remarketing platform. Since its inception, online sales grew from 34,000 vehicles in 2000 to a cumulative 3.4 million through mid-2010. SmartAuction’s current initiative is to increase its commercial fleet business.
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This upstream remarketing channel, which offers out-of-service fleet vehicles not only to drivers, but also to the broader purchasing pool of other company workers, saves money and provides a valuable employee benefit.
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Follow these common sense strategies before the acquisition decision, during ownership and prior to resale to help you hold the line on residual values.
Read More →To obtain maximum return when remarketing vehicles, fleet managers should use a remarketing service, which helps eliminate hidden losses associated with continued depreciation and tracks the status of the used-vehicle market.
Read More →Poor dealer demand and low bid prices are backing up the volume of car rental units in auction lanes. Average risk car sale prices were down almost 15 percent in December, and could remain low for months.
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The used-vehicle market since Sept. 11 has been volatile and its future is being governed by events beyond our control, such as the economy, a war, and unprecedented new-vehicle retail incentives.
Read More →On average it takes approximately nine days for owned fleets to receive funds from the resale of fleet vehicles, while leased/managed fleets take 21.5 days, according to a survey of fleet managers conducted by Automotive Fleet.
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