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Effectiveness of your ASL fleet

By Richard Adams posted 03-06-2015 10:19 AM

  
Any recommendations on performance measurement of refuse fleet?  We track cost per mile of each truck. Percent of inventory available on any given hour and given day. Percentage of making roll out on a daily basis.


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Richard Adams
03-10-2015 09:05 AM

Thanks Joe,
I'm looking at truck availability. I don't have control over our fleet maintenance. Their performance measure is meeting our rollout requirement at the start of the day. I don't think this is an effective measurement because trucks start dropping off an hour into the day.

Joe Williams
03-10-2015 08:53 AM

Richard-
Not clear on what you are trying to measure. Collection efficiency or truck availability?
SWANA's Managing MSW Collection Systems training course (the newest edition is being rolled out at SWANAPalooza in New Orleans next week) has detailed formulas on collection efficiency based on containers per hour, cost per hour, cost per month, etc.
If you are asking about availability of equipment, the same training defines success as never leaving a route standing due to a lack of equipment. If you don't have control over your own fleet maintenance (or even if you do), a typical number is 90% of the fleet, including spares, being available at any given time. Obviously, the bigger your fleet, the easier to reach that number.
If this doesn't help, please feel free to give me a call.
Joe Williams
Common Sense Consulting of Franklin, LLC
(615) 838-8699