{"id":8779,"date":"2021-03-04T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:58:37","slug":"polk-fleet-management-receives-top-ase-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/04\/polk-fleet-management-receives-top-ase-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk Fleet Management Receives Top ASE Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence awarded Polk County\u2019s Fleet Management Division with its highest honor \u2013 the ASE Blue Seal of Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/012021-jm-fleet-management-technicians-01-media.jpg?resize=342%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8780\" width=\"342\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/012021-jm-fleet-management-technicians-01-media.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/012021-jm-fleet-management-technicians-01-media.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/012021-jm-fleet-management-technicians-01-media.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/012021-jm-fleet-management-technicians-01-media.jpg?resize=1536%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/012021-jm-fleet-management-technicians-01-media.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are fortunate in Polk County because we have an incentive for ASE certifications,\u201d said Fleet Management Director Robert Biller. \u201cWe have a talented and qualified staff and I am pleased we were able to receive this distinction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be eligible for this recognition, a company or organization must have 75 percent of its automotive professionals ASE Certified. In addition, there must be a certified technician in each area of services offered. To remain in the program, a repair facility must renew each year and confirm its professional certification status.<br>Polk\u2019s Fleet Management Division has 11 master automotive technicians, 10 masters medium\/heavy truck technicians, and a total of 226 ASE certifications and has an 84 percent certification rate. The technicians in the division serve more than 2,400 vehicles in the county\u2019s inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These technicians are constantly updating their education and staying on top of new trends and technology in their respective fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence awarded Polk County\u2019s Fleet Management Division with its highest honor \u2013 the ASE Blue Seal of Excellence. \u201cWe are fortunate in Polk County&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}