Vector Fleet Management 31 years’ experience in Government Fleet Maintenance. VFM realizes that:
- The individual users’ needs must be met by being more responsive to them.
- Vehicle usage is high, in order to support important governmental services.
- Schedules can be dynamic and demanding.
- Stringent performance standards must be met.
- The age of the vehicle, as well as the mileage, might need to be prolonged for economic reasons.
- We must provide extraordinary support in emergency situations, no matter how long they last.
1. Vector Understands Government Fleets
Budgets stretched/decreased, services scaled back/eliminated, management doing more with less. Challenges facing gov‘t managers: reliability, cost–consciousness, efficiency. Need a partner to run the fleet. Vector Fleet Management adapts solutions to challenges government fleets face, such as mechanics‘ readiness, equipment availability, and fleet age. VFM has 3 decades of gov‘t fleet maintenance experience, reducing vehicle downtime & costs, and improving the quality of services & operating efficiency for citizens & gov’t departments.
2. Reducing Overall Governmental Fleet Maintenance Costs
Vector Fleet’s experience working with multiple fleets has shaped management strategies to control parts and subcontractor costs, keeping fleet maintenance costs below budget and improving technician productivity. Major suppliers quickly supply parts for immediate use, reducing overhead costs.
Vector Fleet will periodically run reports to identify slow–moving or obsolete parts so they can return them for credit. This reduces overhead expenditures and makes the parts room far more responsive than it would be otherwise. Vector Fleet relies on in-house repairs instead of using a local OEM. To cut down on expensive transportation shipping, Vector Fleet always buys local. Local vendors are important to Vector Fleet Management, which will provide most of the fast-moving items, including rubber components like tires, belts, and hoses and filters, rotors, and brake pads.
3. Improving the Availability of Equipment and Vehicles
Typical government fleets can have a lot of downtime, which is a major challenge as well as a constant frustration. Because Vector Fleet realizes this, our experienced government fleet maintenance staff can keep a fleet operational to its maximum capacity by:
- Reducing overtime through increased use of mobile maintenance service vehicles
- Getting as much of our work done in-house instead of using subcontractors
- Prioritizing service vehicles based on the vehicle’s criticality of the mission
4. Increasing the Efficiency of Fleet Operations
Vector Fleet Management focuses exclusively on fleet maintenance, so the leadership of our company can devote their full attention to this business. Since 1988, Vector Fleet has prided itself on continuously performing well, not only in the commercial sector but in the government sectors as well. Vector Fleet’s leadership and management have proven initiatives that have reduced costs and improved the ability to forecast maintenance failures including:
- Condition-Based Maintenance procedures such as lubricant and oil analyses and intermittent engine compression checks to determine possible differential, transmission, and engine repairs before they start
- Maintenance that will provide a faster response as well as reduce “windshield time”
- Using synthetic lubricants to extend the life of an oil change which can lower costs significantly
- Shop hours that are flexible enough to meet the client’s needs
- Increased OBD usage along with other computer-assisted online diagnostics abilities
5. Improved Governmental Department Communication
Expert service involves more than fixing a piece of equipment that breaks every now and again. VFM inspects every aspect of partnering and support to make sure we meet our mutual goals.
We want to know how Vector Fleet can improve operations and how procedures can be adapted to complete the work more efficiently so we can reward and identify top employees, as well as those whose performance standards are not up to par. We all–encompassingly review each customer feedback form at the corporate level.
Vector Fleet responds to the customer‘s feedback to show appreciation and demonstrate that we have taken action. This is something Vector Fleet will take pretty seriously because customers mean a lot to the continued success of Vector Fleet’s business.
Corporate staff makes regular unscheduled and scheduled site visits to keep customers up-to-date regarding any day-to-day customer issues. Vector Fleet‘s corporate managers regularly meet with government managers, purchasing directors, and department heads to ensure that Vector Fleet Management is meeting their needs and staying up–to–date on any changes to the budget, operational changes, or other government–related planning initiatives.