Underutilized Assets

John.Manring@sdcounty.ca.gov

Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 11:20 AM

The County of San Diego is working on reducing underutilized vehicles and we are finding it difficult to set a benchmark on what is actually considered an underutilized asset. In the past we have used the standard 10K mile a year usage as the benchmark and that has proven to work for the basic concept however we continually run into many vehicles that have much less usage but the departments claim they play a vital role in their business operations.

We are considering the use of both a mileage metric as well as a cost per mile metric combined to come up with a standard benchmark.
Can you tell us how your agency defines what is underutilized in your organization? Or what type of methodology you use to determine this?
Also once you identify these units how to do go about taking them from the departments?

Looking for input from anyone and everyone as I know this has got to a problem we all experience.

John A Manring
County of San Diego
Department of General Services
Chief Departmental Operations Fleet
858-694-2878 office
619-417-0672 mobile