Abstract

Abstract: The aim of the study is to show how fleet management can help in saving time and cost by comparing the current onsite equipment to optimised results. The detailed study of fleet of equipment and their related parameters and specifications is important because it helps to determine requirement of equipments for a particular activity. All the cost including labor, maintenance, operating costs, machine capacity were considered to find out the productivity as well as expenses. Based on the site visit and data collection various parameters such as productivity of excavator, production rate, cycle time and other parameters of activities such as earthmoving equipment, hauling of trucks as well as productivity of paver were also calculated. The parameters were obtained for various combinations of different truck sizes as shown in the MS- Excel sheet. For different truck sizes and different combinations we get different cost index.

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