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RTA Fleet
Fleet-maintenance SaaS · Glendale, USA · founded 1979
👤 Josh Turley (Grandson of founder Ron Turley. Took over the stagnant family business in 2016 and rebuilt its 40-year legacy code into SaaS.)🌐 siteLinkedIn

Fleet-maintenance software for state and city governments — a 1979 family business the grandson rebuilt into SaaS.

Will it work? · our read
Inherited a moat. Josh didn't find a market — he inherited one, then did the hard part most heirs skip: he re-platformed an aging legacy product into SaaS before cloud rivals could win the fleets.
01How the money moves
City or state fleet buys RTA to run its shop
Billed per vehicle, per month across the fleet
Sticky recurring ARR; more vehicles, more revenue
02The numbers
$15M
ARR run-rate, 2024
Prac.Founders
1,200+
government fleets served
rtafleet.com
8x+
revenue since 2016 buyout
Prac.Founders
From a sub-$2M family business to a $15M-ARR SaaS in about eight years, still family-led. Practical Founders
$15M ARR run-rate in 2024, up from under $2M when Josh took over in 2016 — founder-stated on Practical Founders.
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$15M ARR (2024 run-rate) and the under-$2M starting point are founder-stated by Josh Turley on the Practical Founders podcast — first-party but unaudited, so labeled STATED. Founding year (1979), founder Ron Turley, and 1,200+ fleets come from RTA's own site. Pricing ($6/asset/month starting price) and the Sourcewell/NASPO/NPPGov-class purchasing contracts are both confirmed directly on rtafleet.com — we removed an earlier GSA claim and a Fleetio-sourced price figure that did not hold up against RTA's own pages. The 2025 Series A amount was mentioned in the interview but not in the press release, so we don't headline a figure. The 'most heirs just collect fees' framing and the failure-mode counterfactual are [our read]. We never score you.