Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Determine the goals of fleet management and the role of the fleet manager.
• applying the preventive maintenance program for the fleet.
• Determine the requirements for effective workshops.
• establishing fleet safety programs and choosing drivers.
• Using capital budget techniques to do vehicle replacement analysis
• Determine the best distribution paths.
• Creating basic performance indicators and measuring fleet services

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Fleet safety managers and operations managers
• managers and coordinators in fleet and transportation services.
• Experts in fleet and transportation services.
• maintenance supervisors and transportation plans.
• Everyone who finds himself in need of this session and wants to develop his skills and experience in this field.

Course Outline

Day 1: An Introduction to Fleet Management

• Definition of fleet management
• Fleet management goals
• The costs associated with fleet management.
• Best customer service.
• The characteristics of the fleet manager Management of fleet maintenance:
• maintenance roles and responsibilities.
• benefits of preventive maintenance inspections.
• The scope of preventive maintenance programs
• Unscheduled maintenance.
• Road contacts
• Tire selection and management
• Resource management and vehicle parts
• Internal maintenance versus suppliers.

Day 2 :Workshop management

• Workshop form
• Workshop tools
• Calculate the workshop’s productivity.
• Utilities requirements
• The shape of the work area
• Fleet safety management
• the safety program elements.
• causes of accident prevention.
• drivers’ selection criteria.
• fleet skills tests.
• Types of road accidents.

Day 3 : Measuring and improving the performance of the fleet

• fleet measurement system.
• transportation costs and delivery services.
• cost rates
• Productivity of transport assets
• quality and financial indicators.
• Course time indicators.
• Measuring and improving the extent of benefiting from the fleet

Day 4: Distribution planning, transportation, and delivery services

• Basics and best practices in transportation and delivery services
• Factors affecting transportation decisions
• transport network design options.
• distribution vehicles’ paths.

Day 5: Replacement and selection of vehicles

• Vehicle selection criteria
• Contract or ownership analysis.
• Vehicle replacement analysis
• Techniques for balancing capital.