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Life Expectancy/Cost per mile of police vehicles?

3/4/2009 5:32 AM
stowohio Join Date: March 2009 Posts: 1	Life Expectancy/Cost per mile of police vehicles? Hello, I am a new member looking for information. I am the civilian assistant to the police chief of a surburban city in Northeast Ohio. We have approximately fifteen marked police cars (Ford Crown Victorias) in our fleet. Many of our cars are five years or older and have over 150K in mileage. The chief is looking for facts and figures that will support his argument for replacing some of this fleet. We are looking for data (rather than opinion), studies, trends, etc that apply to rotating out/replacing police units. Also, is there data on when the cost per mile expended reaches a point where replacement should occur? We appreciate any help that you can provide to us! Regards, Mike Foley mfoley@stow.oh.us

3/4/2009 5:32 AM

stowohio

Join Date: March 2009
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Life Expectancy/Cost per mile of police vehicles?

Hello,

I am a new member looking for information. I am the civilian assistant to the police chief of a surburban city in Northeast Ohio. We have approximately fifteen marked police cars (Ford Crown Victorias) in our fleet. Many of our cars are five years or older and have over 150K in mileage. The chief is looking for facts and figures that will support his argument for replacing some of this fleet.

We are looking for data (rather than opinion), studies, trends, etc that apply to rotating out/replacing police units. Also, is there data on when the cost per mile expended reaches a point where replacement should occur?

We appreciate any help that you can provide to us!

Regards,

Mike Foley
mfoley@stow.oh.us

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4/15/2009 5:33 AM	#1
Dale Barnard Join Date: April 2009 Posts: 1	Re: Life Expectancy/Cost per mile of police vehicles? I am the Fleet Manager for a large Police Department in Texas with approximately 2000 vehicles in use. All marked Police vehicles are replaced at 100,000 miles. Two years ago we reduced that from 125,000 miles. There was a study conducted by an outside group that recommended replacing a car at 75,000. Their argument was higher resale value, less maintenance cost on older vehicles, image of the old cars to the community as a whole and showing your employees that you care about them by keeping them a nice clean "office space" since officers work out of their car. Since we purchase severral hundred at a time it was not fesible at the time to reduce our mileage limit to 75,000 at that time. We have notice a significant reduction in maintenance cost and are continuing to evaluate the replacement mileage limit. Dale Barnard

4/15/2009 5:33 AM

Dale Barnard

Join Date: April 2009
Posts: 1

Re: Life Expectancy/Cost per mile of police vehicles?

I am the Fleet Manager for a large Police Department in Texas with approximately 2000 vehicles in use. All marked Police vehicles are replaced at 100,000 miles. Two years ago we reduced that from 125,000 miles. There was a study conducted by an outside group that recommended replacing a car at 75,000. Their argument was higher resale value, less maintenance cost on older vehicles, image of the old cars to the community as a whole and showing your employees that you care about them by keeping them a nice clean "office space" since officers work out of their car.

Since we purchase severral hundred at a time it was not fesible at the time to reduce our mileage limit to 75,000 at that time. We have notice a significant reduction in maintenance cost and are continuing to evaluate the replacement mileage limit.

Dale Barnard

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