Cobb County Fleet Management has a tough job. The group oversees a fleet of 2,600 vehicles that keep Georgia’s third-largest county running smoothly. Those vehicles support 13 different departments across the county, which in turn serve a citizenship of over 766,000. This is a tall order when it comes to management and organization.
“We face tremendous challenges maintaining a county this size,” said Bill Shelton, former maintenance division manager for Cobb County Fleet Management. “We have a high level of expectation from our citizens. Elected officials demand that we respond immediately and give the taxpayers a dollar’s worth of service for a dollar’s worth of tax.”
Cobb County Fleet Saves Big.
How Georgia’s third-largest county stretched taxpayer dollars with modern fleet management.
The challenge
Keeping an enormous fleet running smoothly while keeping costs in check.
To meet those demands, Cobb County needed to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars. But the telematic system they were using for fleet oversight wasn’t providing the flexibility needed to make fast, effective decisions.
The solution
Flexibility drives decision making.
“Our T-Mobile for Government representative really understood the dynamics of the organization,” said Al Curtis, director of Cobb County Fleet Management. “He knew what we did as a fleet and he knew a lot about what departments do when they go out and perform their particular missions, so he had a really good gauge on why this particular solution would be a perfect fit for us.”
“Switching to T-Mobile Fleet Management from Geotab meant that the departments would be able to move devices in between vehicles as needed,” said Ryan Coover, utilities maintenance superintendent for Cobb County Water Systems. “It allows us to go from a large commercial vehicle down to a pick-up truck in just a matter of seconds—unplugging it and plugging it into another vehicle.”
“Switching to T-Mobile Fleet Management from Geotab meant that the departments would be able to move devices in between vehicles as needed.”
“T-Mobile Fleet Management from Geotab fell right into what we needed and of course, the price point we wanted,” Al Curtis, director of Cobb County Fleet Management, said. “We always look at solutions from the perspective of our citizens, because we are in charge of managing the citizens’ funds. The taxpayers are who we report to, so we have to try to be as efficient and as effective as possible in our deployment of technologies.”
The results
Where the rubber hits the road.
“Using modern technology, like T-Mobile Fleet Management from Geotab, helps us to be more efficient,” Shelton said. “And using that technology saves taxpayer dollars.”
What’s more, the wealth of data offered by the devices has also helped the county demonstrate safer driving choices to drivers and allowed the Fleet Management team to better understand the needs of the fleet. Cobb County currently uses around 238 devices and plans to add more as they purchase new equipment.
“I have a lot more visibility and a lot more data to leverage to come up with solutions that offer much better solves to concerns.”
“I would strongly recommend T-Mobile Fleet Management from Geotab to pretty much every municipality that’s out there that would like to not only track drivers, vehicles, assets, and behavior, but also to have significant cost savings added to their budget.”
Qualifying service, capable device, and T-Mobile Fleet Management from Geotab hardware required for each vehicle. App/web console required for some features. Savings may vary; size of fleet and fuel management practices determine savings.