This week, Car Keys Express (CKE) rolled out a new solution specifically designed to help fleet managers who sometimes oversee hundreds of thousands of vehicles across branches spread far apart.
The key and title asset warehousing, tracking, and logistics service is called FleetHero, which can manage fleet vehicles’ backup keys, as well as title documents.
When a key is needed, CKE can ship it via expedited delivery to the vehicle location. FleetHero services also include:
— Key asset storage, tracking, recovery and recycling
— Emergency key replacement via mobile dispatch
— Vehicle title cataloging, retrieval and fulfillment
The company highlighted FleetHero leverages CKE’s expertise in automotive key replacement to reduce vehicle downtime and lower costs.
Recently, Car Keys Express secured a major contract to provide its FleetHero system to one of North America’s largest fleets, resulting in an immediate savings on its key replacement spend.
“Travelers return rental cars to the airport and fly away with keys all the time. This takes the vehicle out of service for days, even weeks until the key is replaced. So add up the costs: there’s the tow to the dealership; the cost for the key; some fleets require two keys on the vehicle; add lost revenue. It’s not unusual for each incident to cost many thousands of dollars,” Car Keys Express vice president of sales and marketing Mike Bliss said in a news release.
“With FleetHero, we eliminate those costs. Our system allows our clients to just click the mouse and we ship them a key they already own. Now our fleet partners can avoid the headaches, expense, and distraction of being experts at warehousing and logistics, and get back to doing what they do best,” Bliss continued.
CKE acknowledged some fleets, like those in the car rental industry, extensively leverage one-way deployments. Often, fleet managers have difficulty keeping track of keys and titles.
FleetHero can give operators maximum operational simplicity and cost effectiveness, while providing total visibility to fully track their key and title assets. They can now replace them via an easy-to-use online portal, searchable by VIN 24/7.
With CKE’s emergency mobile service, they can dispatch a CKE mobile technician to immediately replace a key.
And with CKE’s recycling program, at the end of the vehicle’s life-cycle, CKE will even pay the fleet operator for unused keys.
“Our fleet clients, large and small, are facing the same set of challenges. Key technology has greatly increased over the years and so has their replacement cost — so much so that fleet operators now consider them significant assets,” said Mark Lanwehr, founder and chief executive of Car Keys Express. “So we developed a completely new approach to replacing keys, with the added benefit to our customers of managing their vehicle titles.
“As the leader in automotive key replacement, we already supply thousands of businesses and consumers using our mature warehousing and distribution infrastructure,” Lanwehr continued. “Once you add our nationwide network of technicians, it’s a unique suite of services that extends our already deep reach into the fleet services space.”
To learn more about FleetHero, visit CarKeysExpress.com/FleetHero.
Source : AutoFinanceNews
