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Re: Vehicle Fleet management?

PostPosted: 16 May 2010, 20:10
by LBCAK
That sounds like a great deal for the departments!

How many vehicles do you guys keep in operation? Do the departments "buy" their vehicles using their own budget, or does the vehicle shop replace vehicles when needed?

Re: Vehicle Fleet management?

PostPosted: 17 May 2010, 12:51
by Tom400CFI
LBCAK wrote:That sounds like a great deal for the departments!

How many vehicles do you guys keep in operation? Do the departments "buy" their vehicles using their own budget, or does the vehicle shop replace vehicles when needed?

I think that it's a great deal for the departments too. Or Great service, provided by our department (for a change in the ski industry). It's a way to give REAL pride and service to the Veh. department...which normally, just "fixes the stuff that everyone else breaks".

We have ~40 rubber tired vehicles, currently.

When buying occurs, depts make a request to us, and give us the criteria for the vehicle they need. We shop for, find and buy the vehicles so we end up w/a one brand fleet and minimal part numbers on the shelf.

For turn over, Veh dept. makes the funding request. If we get any funding we just go buy vehicles and repalce the "tired iron".

Re: Vehicle Fleet management?

PostPosted: 18 May 2010, 00:06
by LBCAK
From what I gather, our departments "buy" their vehicles using their own operating budget. This means if they trash the vehicle, it's out of their pocket. And from what I have seen, people here are pretty protective of their vehicles. They seem to take excellent care of them. But I think setting up this sort of system would involve changing a lot more than just how vehicle maintenance is tracked. Probably a lot more than you guys are trying to change I bet.

Re: Vehicle Fleet management?

PostPosted: 05 Dec 2010, 22:21
by Tom400CFI
Well, we got it. Took a lot of effort and convincing, but we rolled the program out Nov 22, and so far, it's been a good move. Nothing at a ski resort is ever absolute, so I'm sure that if we ran a poll, there would be mixed opinions on the thing, but this I can say for sure; the fleet is getting washed, fueled, and vacuumed out, every day. Like nothing that's ever happened before. There has been one damage incident to date since the roll out, and of course there was accountability and the damage was repaired in two days.

I'm digging it, and the fleet looks SO MUCH BETTER, being cleaned daily. We'll see how it works out over time, but so far, it seems to be the ticket for our resort.

Re: Vehicle Fleet management?

PostPosted: 08 Dec 2010, 12:58
by LBCAK
Sounds like you have a good system there. I am interested in seeing the long term effect on both the equipment and the program vs the old way of doing things. And also, the types of tweaks and changes that occur during the first year of the new operations. After managing maintenance operations for 3 different lodges in Alaska, I was blown away at the difference in how things were done. Even between two properties owned by the same company. Everywhere I have worked I have tried to take the best ideas and combine them with the best ideas at the new lodge, sometimes it works, and sometimes it does'nt...