Tag: heavy equipment fleet management

Business

Fleet management course scheduled in Wisc.

A course on management of public and private equipment fleets will be held November 14-15 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. John E. Dolce, fleet director with Wendel Companies in Roseland, New Jersey, is the instructor. He has more than 40 years of experience in management and operation of public and private fleets and is the […]

October 24, 2017

Business

How to implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System

You bought it. Now you have to make it work. Here’s a 14-point plan to bring your maintenance-management protocols into the digital age. Earlier this year, we looked at how to evaluate and choose a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). But that’s just half the battle. Implementing the system is equally as important. A weak effort […]

June 8, 2017

Business

Chris Ryan inducted into AEMP Hall of Fame

Anybody who has been around the Association of Equipment Management Professionals in the past three decades probably knows Chris Ryan, if for no other reason than his enormous moustache. But Ryan is also well known for the leadership role he’s taken in everything from the group’s board of directors and executive committee to his role […]

March 16, 2017

Business

Before the snow flies, here’s how to properly winterize your heavy equipment fleet

Nothing is more annoying than a maintenance oversight causing a machine to go down –unless it’s a maintenance failure that causes a machine to go down in a howling artic wind.  As the days get shorter and the weather turns colder, contractors are scrambling to finish projects. And while the work has to get done, […]

October 26, 2016

Oils & lubricants

New heavy-duty diesel oil standard: What you need to know

There’s a new heavy-duty diesel oil standard in the works. It will not be available until late next year or early 2017, but the performance requirements for it tell you a lot about where the diesel engine industry is headed. The industry periodically updates standards to address performance and emissions requirements from OEMs, says Sam […]

February 10, 2015

Technology

AEMP’s fall symposium: Telematics finally gets the jump-start it’s been needing

If you weren’t there, I’m sorry to say, but you missed it. What was “it?” It was the feeling of 300 light bulbs going off above 300 people’s heads at the Association of Equipment Management Professionals 2014 Asset Management Symposium. Held in Nashville, Tennessee, November 3-5, the theme for this year’s symposium was: Telematics: driving […]

November 18, 2014

Technology

Two experienced fleet managers tell how telematics data helps make their companies more competitive, explain how to adopt the technology

There will come a time in every construction company’s life, when a trigger event will make the deployment of telematics not only advisable, but even necessary. And that time is fast approaching for almost every company, said Guy Gordon, CEM, director of asset management at Aegion, and Dan Samford, vice president equipment assets, Herzog Contracting. […]

November 10, 2014