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Basics Of Fleet Maintenance Management

Based on popular text, updated with cutting edge tech like prescriptive maintenance, IIoT sensors, AI, Drones, Virtual Reality and more.

Who : This program is for Fleet managers of all kinds of fleets, Port equipment superintendents, shop managers and directors of transportation, supervisors, other executives, or managers with fleet responsibilities, and anyone being promoted into these jobs.

Fleets covered range from Port operation, taxicabs, mobile construction equipment, rental, transit and minibusses, mixed municipal fleets, common carriers, private carriers, and mining equipment. This course is for any organization that owns or operates multiple pieces of mobile equipment.

What : The basics of Fleet Management is a 2-day class with a spiral-bound workbook and a text The Basics of Fleet Maintenance by Joel Levitt

what you will Learn :

Running a fleet is managing thousands of details where any one of which could be critical. This 1-day class focuses on distinguishing the important from the unimportant and how to identify the vital 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 warranty recovery, and help you understand what to manage to have an impact.

  • What are fleet management's responsibilities with an overview of responsibilities, benefits of active management, alternatives to management, quality of life issues?
  • How to conduct a fleet self-audit with how to measure a fleet operation,
  • How to collect usable data for future analysis from the repair orders
  • Identification of the five major cost areas
  • VMRS (Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standard), the use and misuse of the repair order.
  • Pre-planning steps for change include laying the groundwork for changing your systems, how to prepare superiors and subordinates, eight specific projects to get control, finding waste.
  • Improving maintenance systems with PM, PdM, PCR, accurate cost analysis, avoiding crisis mode of operation.
  • Attacking the major cost areas of labor and parts with methods of evaluating labor productivity, improved scheduling, managing the stockroom, and reducing inventory levels.
  • Where to attack ownership and operating costs
  • When and how to trade, Improve warranty recovery, loss prevention.
  • Rules to Improve your shop layout for efficiency

Basics of Fleet Maintenance Management 2-day course Agenda

In the following agenda:

RED – are interactive exercises of various types

Day 1 :

  1. Issues of fleet
  • What is fleet management?
  • Why manage it?
  • Alternatives
  1. Fleet Maintenance Fitness Questionnaire
  • Job assignment dissonance questionnaire
  1. Planning projects
  2. Selling Improvements to your Management
  • Life Cycle Cost
  • Return on Investment calculations
  1. Goal: Longer life with less effort
  2. Maintenance cost evaluation
  • True Cost of Labor
  • The real cost of a part
  1. Breakdowns
  2. PM strategies
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Setting up a PM system
  1. MRO spares inventory
  2. Outsourcing

Heavy Haul Truck at Syncrude in Ft McMurry Canada

Day 2 :

    1. Fuel
    1. Tires
    2. Safety and insurance
    3. Buying and selling vehicles
    • Vehicle specification
    1. Alternative use
    2. Fleet audit
    3. Productivity
    4. Staffing roles and number of people
    5. Shop design
    • Tools and equipment
    1. Shop scheduling and Work Standards
    2. Repair Order
    • VMRS
    • CMMS
    • DVIR
    1. Budgeting Maintenance
    2. Measurement of Fleet Performance
    3. New Technologies
    4. 50 Notes to take with you
    • Build a better fleet system

A Fleet can have different equipment. Pictured is a farm implement at TADCO (a 70,000 acre farm) near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Training options :

We are flexible about your specific needs for outcomes from the course.

Option 1
Option 1

The most basic way is to present a standard course after a brief email conversation about goals and objectives. The courses are tried and tested and have been used to good effect worldwide in many maintenance situations.

Option 2
Option 2

The second and most common option involves a one-day site visit before the class. This visit allows me to add examples from your facility, adjust the verbal presentation to suit your needs, meet some key players, and see some of the unique problems you face.

Option 3
Option 3

involves a more extensive site visit (to be defined) a few weeks before the class. This extra time allows me to customize and add examples from your facility and adjust the verbal presentation to suit your needs. It is always good to meet some of the key players and see for myself some of the unique problems you face.

Option 4
Option 4

The third option is to conduct a maintenance audit survey that looks at all the aspects of maintenance, evaluates areas where improvements are possible, and slanting the training to the competencies needed to implement the upgrades uncovered in the survey.

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