Mid-sized Municipal Fleet in Texas Optimizes to Save $170,000 per Year

With a fleet of nearly 500 light-duty vehicles, Webb County in Texas knew it was time to optimize its operations, and in the process anticipates that it will save an average of more than $170,000 each year.

“Webb County has a large and aging fleet spread out across our service area, which can be a real challenge to manage efficiently,” said John Galo, Webb County Commissioner, Precinct 3.

Historically, the County’s approach to fleet management had been decentralized, with each individual department controlling and managing its own fleet. With its new approach, Webb is now able to manage the routine and regular maintenance newly leased cars, trucks and vans and will soon receive vehicle registration and reporting metrics to ensure proper fleet optimization.

The centralized approach adopted to reporting maintenance also will provide the County greater insight into maintenance schedules, records and expenses. And, once the vehicles have reached the optimum point in their lifecycle, the system, provided by Enterprise Fleet Management, will leverage its processes to auction and resell the vehicles for the County.

Previously, more than 200 of Webb County’s vehicles were 11 years old of age or older, or had logged more than 129,000 miles.

Category: Fleet Maintenance, General Update