This program is designed for: Fleet managers and directors of transportation, supervisors, executives with fleet responsibilities, anyone being promoted into these jobs. There is also an advantage to having representatives from dispatch, operations, stockroom and purchasing for their perspective and input. Fleets covered range from taxicabs, busses, municipal mixed fleets, to common carriers, private carriers to mobile construction and mining equipment.

The goal of this program is for you and your staff to have a new and deeper understanding of how to effectively manage maintenance in a fleet operation. With this understanding will be the opportunity to lower costs and improve operations.

The focus of this course is how to distinguish the important from the unimportant and how to identify the critical vehicles, mechanics, vendors or operators that are costing you money. This course will offer specific ideas to reduce road calls, reduce fuel consumption, trade units, how to slash paperwork, improve warrantee recovery, and help you understand what to manage to have an impact.

Outline

• Responsibilities of fleet management, overview of responsibilities
  • Benefits of effective management
  • Alternatives to management
  • Quality of life issues
• Conducting a fleet self-audit
  • Measuring a fleet operation
  • Collecting usable data
  • Identification of the 5 major cost areas
  • VMRS
  • Use and misuse of the repair order
• Pre-planning steps for change
  • Laying the groundwork for changing your systems
  • Preparing superiors and subordinates
  • 8 specific projects to get control
  • Finding waste
• Powerful tools for today’s fleet managers
  • Project management techniques
  • New technologies
  • How to sell the technology to top management
• Improving maintenance systems
  • PM, PDM, PCR
  • True cost analysis
  • Avoiding crisis mode of operation
• Attacking the major cost areas of labor and parts
  • Methods of evaluating labor productivity
  • Improved scheduling
  • Managing the stockroom
  • Reducing inventory levels
• Attacking ownership and operating costs
  • Fuel saving strategies
  • Fuel management
  • When and how to trade
  • Improve warrantee recovery
  • Loss prevention
• The fleet manager
  • Improving personal productivity