Priority Three
Improve how we manage our fleet
Why do we need to do this?
The equipment we now carry is becoming increasingly technical in nature, requiring specific maintenance and tracking, as well as being of high value.
When a vehicle develops a fault and we need to swap it with another, the firefighters at the station have to spend time swapping all of the equipment from one vehicle to another. This is inefficient.
Now that telemetry is installed across our fleet of vehicles, we can begin to utilise the data it provides to help coach improvements in driver skills and behaviours, as well as guide how many vehicles we need in the first place. The average age of our light fleet has already reduced from 10 years to about 6 years, saving on costs as cars age
Each driver uses a swipe card system to register that they are driving a vehicle. This data can then be compiled over time, to identify a pattern of driver behaviour. We want to use this data to make our driver training courses more effective.