Dickinson Fleet Providers offers companies for medium and heavy-duty vehicles and trailers in North America.
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Cox Automotive has acquired fleet cell upkeep supplier Dickinson Fleet Providers to bolster the capabilities and geographic attain of its nationwide Pivet fleet companies market, and deal with powering a fleet future that’s depending on cell upkeep and restore companies.
Dickinson Fleet Providers offers companies for medium and heavy-duty vehicles and trailers in North America, Cox mentioned. Its preventative upkeep and cell emergency restore service capabilities, together with a fleet of greater than 700 cell restore models and 800 restore and upkeep technicians, are geared toward enhancing Pivet’s current community of fleet service choices.
“Cox Automotive is constructing a fleet optimization market designed to handle each fleet asset’s full lifecycle, and the acquisition of Dickinson Fleet Providers each strengthens and diversifies Pivet’s rising portfolio,” mentioned Joe George, president of Cox Automotive Mobility. “The cell restore section will solely turn into extra vital over time, and the seamless integration of Dickinson’s capabilities offers a substantial leap ahead on our path to creating Pivet the trade’s most complete fleet companies useful resource.”
Fleets and expertise will play a extra substantial position in an A.C.E.S. (autonomous/aerial, related, electrical and shared) future, leading to vital will increase in miles traveled per car and a extra frequent want for service and upkeep, Cox introduced. A number of indicators additionally level to the expansion of cell fleet companies, together with the rise of e-commerce and an on-demand financial system providing real-time fulfilment of products and companies.
Working throughout the Pivet fleet optimization and companies market, Dickinson’s professional cell restore companies would be the cornerstone of Pivet’s future development trajectory, Cox mentioned. The brand new operations shall be extremely complementary to Pivet’s current community of mounted and high-capacity service facilities.
“A core basis of our enterprise, and key to Manheim’s 75-year legacy, is about exploring and rising what’s subsequent within the transportation enterprise, after which delivering these insights to our prospects,” mentioned Steve Rowley, president of Cox Automotive. “Practically half of the producers and hundreds of sellers have engaged us in various ranges of dialog round executing service in new methods, together with cell upkeep. The learnings we’ll achieve working the Dickinson Fleet Providers enterprise shall be helpful to serving to our prospects study, develop and execute on this house.”
