Citation

Pullin D. Am. City Cty. 2002; 117(3): 36-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Penton Media)

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Abstract

In efforts to run a city, county, or other type of municipal government in the most effective and coordinated manner, fleet management often gets much less attention than other areas of public service. External service departments (police, fire, sanitation) are rarely allowed the flexibility to directly manage their fleets strictly according to their own needs. Rather, it is almost universally true of local government fleets that vehicles are administered and maintained by a centralized maintenance department or manager. In those cases, there often are gray areas in which fleet management and fleet maintenance overlap; however, invariably, operation and fleet maintenance are managed separately. This article focuses on ways in which the nature of the relationship between fleet management and fleet maintenance can be improved, better coordinated, and run more efficiently, based primarily on the increased use of performance measures.