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Lower costs and higher productivity through new truck trailer design
Applicable Industries
- Oil & Gas
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Fleet Management
- Predictive Maintenance
The Challenge
The customer was seeking third-party expertise to enhance their in-house garage operations. Element’s truck consulting team conducted a field study at several of the customer’s in-house garage shops and identified several issues. These included an excess of inventory parts, the absence of a tire policy, inconsistent use of the maintenance software system, varied training provided to mechanics, lack of centralized purchasing programs, absence of a preventive maintenance checklist leading to numerous errors, and discrepancies in safety practices.
About The Customer
The customer operates in the Oil & Gas industry, utilizing light and medium trucks, tractors, and trailers for service and delivery purposes. They were seeking ways to improve their in-house garage operations and were open to third-party expertise. The customer's fleet is spread across 34 locations, with a total of 700 vehicles in operation. The services they utilized included fuel, leasing, maintenance, and title, licensing & registration.
The Solution
Element’s truck consultants presented the customer with several recommendations to reduce costs and gain efficiencies. These included keeping only repetitive parts on hand, routinely checking tire pressure, consolidating vendors, enforcing the use of the current software system, ensuring consistent and required training for all mechanics, negotiating with vendors at the corporate level and mandating use in the field, implementing preventive maintenance checklists, and incorporating monthly safety meetings tied to OSHA.
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