01 Tipping point: Setting the stage for smarter waste management
3. Forecast the impacts of your decisions : The last step to take before starting to right- size your fleet is to estimate how removing or adding a vehicle would affect your current budget. With calculations like total cost of ownership (TCO) and possible resale value, you can forecast what a new garbage truck would likely cost over its entire lifetime or what you could make from offloading one. Telematics can assist with this process by helping you account for TCO and manage your fleet’s current and future needs through rich vehicle insights. 4. Make precise vehicle additions or cuts : As you begin to add vehicles or remove them from your fleet, doing so surgically can help you avoid problems from drastically altering your operations too much too quickly. Adjusting your roster by one to two garbage trucks at a time allows you to carefully measure the impact of your right- sizing strategy and see if it’s aligning closely with your initial forecasts. 5. Continue to monitor usage : Similarly to the final step in our route optimization and asset utilization guides, it’s critical to continue tracking usage well into the future. After a right-sizing event, it’s normal to experience some slight growing pains as your waste operations adjust to the change in roster size, but over time, the moves you’ve made should yield a net positive result. Additionally, as the territory your waste and sanitation organization evolves, you should factor this into your right-sizing plan and look for prime opportunities to add to or reduce the number of vehicles in your fleet. Telematics can help you optimize costs and operational efficiency at each step of the way in your right-sizing journey. For example, the City of Henderson used Geotab to help right-size their public works fleet, improve routing and enhance their service to the public. According to Nick McLemore, Administrative Manager of Public Works for the City of Henderson:
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Keeping trucks ticking: Maximizing garbage fleet longevity Reducing waste in your waste operations: From routing to right-sizing Fueling efficiency: Slashing costs and emissions in your waste collection fleet Clean record, clean streets: Avoiding legal landfills from liability and risk
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The last stop: Moving toward a leaner, more efficient waste management fleet
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DID YOU KNOW?
Fleets that remove unnecessary trucks from their rosters can lower their yearly fleet expenses by as much as $5,000-$8,000 per truck.
Having Geotab has allowed us to right-size our fleet […] We didn't even understand the breadth of what we can get with this system […] It's just amazing the amount of data that comes from that little device and how much that can make your operation change and become more efficient.”
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