Highland Council drives forward with fleet management action plan

Highland Council has today updated members of the Communities and Place Committee on its Fleet Action Plan supplied to the Office of the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland.

The action plan was developed following an independent audit of the Council’s fleet operations and addresses a number of improvements being made in relation to compliance and control processes and monitoring of heavy goods vehicles.

Chair of the Communities and Place Committee, Councillor Graham MacKenzie, said: “Our large fleet plays a key role in service provision for our communities and maintaining a legally safe and compliant fleet of vehicles is essential. I welcome the opportunity to further enhance the fleet operation within Highland Council as we continue to review the way we manage the fleet and look to continuously improve as we move into a completely digital operation.”

Priority items in the action plan included reviewing the structure and process for control and compliance of drivers and licences, increasing team resource and training, improvements in ongoing vehicle monitoring and maintenance check processes and introducing new process efficiencies.

Vice-Chair of the Communities and Place Committee, Councillor Hugh Morrison, said: “Our improvement plans are significant and show our ambition to be a leading fleet service in Scotland. We aim to restructure the fleet service to enhance resources across the whole operation, invest via the Highland Delivery Plan into new and upgraded depots and workshops, and move to a completely digital operation from drivers checks through to digital inspection forms.”