There are a few efforts to do that. At the Fasotex factory, General Manager Grand is working on getting a new fleet of machines that would begin weaving cloth out of local cotton by next year.

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He recalled asking a regional fleet manager to make a car available to a mom blogger.

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Michael Arnold, fleet manager of the Bismarck, North Dakota, police department.

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If the car makers can position themselves as the fleet manager, they could recapture the profits because they would have control over the service, the repairs and everything else.

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