2026
1. Do you operate Household Waste Recycling Centres / civic amenity sites where your own vehicles remove full skips or containers to transfer, treatment or final disposal sites?
2. For special uplifts or fly-tipping collections, do vehicles return to a depot or transfer point for tipping and segregation, and are any waste streams then reloaded onto council vehicles for onward transport to treatment or disposal sites?
3. For these types of operations, which drivers’ hours regime do you apply:
⦁ GB domestic rules, or
⦁ assimilated drivers’ hours and tachograph rules?
If different stages of the operation are treated differently, it would be helpful if you could say which stage falls under which regime.
It would also be useful to know whether your position is based on DVSA advice, legal advice, internal interpretation, or previous inspection/enforcement experience.
A member authority would like to hear from any members who operate an external managed stores system.
1. Do you currently operate an external managed stores system?
a. Is it a single supplier system?
b. How many workshops do you operate and do they all use this system?
c. Does the stores system integrate with your fleet management system?
2. Are the savings evident? Please can you provide details on
a. Cost savings
b. Time saving
c. Reduced vehicle downtime?
3. Any lessons learned which you can share with those who are considering the change of stores management?
4. Are you able to share your specification of the provision and service agreement?
A local authority is experiencing a high proportion of battery failures in Ford Transit vehicles which are covered by a 3-year agreed warranty. They would therefore be grateful if colleagues could provide information on the following:
1. Are other Local Authorities having similar issues?
2. If yes, how long does it take to get a vehicle looked at under Fords warranty?
3. Has Ford come to any arrangements to help other local authorities with similar issues?
4. Have any other Local Authorities’ been offered FORD assist in this respect?
5. Have you been asked to pay an advance refundable diagnostic fee and if so can you share the cost?
A member authority would like to know what others have in terms of infrastructure and the impact this transition had on operational services who’s staff take vehicles home.
Specifically, they would like to understand:
1. Number of electric vehicles currently operated?
2. What charging infrastructure you currently have?
3. What are the main challenges regarding charging?
4. How was the transition managed for staff who routinely take fleet vehicles home?
5. Was any charging infrastructure installed at staff home addresses to support this change?
6. How/are staff reimbursed for the energy costs associated with charging vehicles at home?
Any examples of policies, procedures, or best practice approaches would be greatly appreciated.
This could include:
⦁ any signposting to associated organisations/lenders
⦁ myth-busting
⦁ campaigns and any design collateral
We are looking at implementing a Dynamic Purchasing System to procure School Transport Contracts and would like to know what if any DPS other Authorities utilise for this?
TVM424 - Council Fleet - 280126
A member authority would like to hear from other authorities in relations to fleet. The will like to know.
• How Many vehicles do you have in total in your fleet and how many are serviced/maintained in house?
• How many technicians do you have in your workshop to maintain your fleet?
• How many people do you have in your fleet management team (from senior managers down to admin) and can you list the roles?
TVM423 - Salaries for mechanics and shift allowances - 120226
A local authority would like to benchmark salaries for mechanics and any shift allowances, given the recruitment and retention challenges. They would be grateful if colleagues could provide:-
⦁ Mechanic Salary – starting and top scale figures
⦁ How long does it take to progress the scales within the grade?
⦁ Any shift allowance paid – £
⦁ If shift, what is the pattern worked?
TVM422 - School Transport Review - 050226
This local authority is seeking information as part of their School Transport Review for the following:
- Do you have a maximum cost per mile in place for suppliers/ parents/ carers and how has this been calculated?
- Do you have standardised traning in place for Drivers and Escorts?
- Who provides the training?
- Who pays for the training?
Any contribution is greatly appreciated.
TVM421 - Licencing requirements for Home to School transport provision - 050126
This local authority is currently undertaking a review of ASN and Mainstream School Transport. They would like to understand what Licencing requirements are in place within other member authorities for Home to School transport provision.
They would appreciate if colleagues were happy to share what type of licence/s you have in place in your Local Authority and share any associated challenges with these arrangements?
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