Historic Brookline Reduces Costs With Fleet Management Solution

Brookline is an old and affluent Massachusetts town dating to 1705, with a population of 60,000. Its residents have included or include such celebrities as Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, Barbara Walters, basketball star Larry Bird, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston Patriots owner Robert Kraft, the late 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace, Nobel prize-winning novelist Saul Bellows, and President John F Kennedy, who was born here 95 years ago.

Like many affluent towns, Brookline faced a common challenge — the need to regulate public works vehicles to optimize workflow. Brookline realized the need to monitor vehicles when street cleaning equipment came back from normal maintenance runs with more than normal damage. “Street sweepers are expensive to maintain and it seemed like we needed to repair gutter brooms and other parts every day,” says Fleet Manager Mark Parece.

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