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Central Garage: equipment purchases planned, electric vehicle investments on hold as fleet ages
Summary
Central Garage Superintendent Dave Thurber told the Senate Transportation Committee that equipment costs and supply delays have increased fleet age; the office plans a $9 million equipment purchase program for FY26, but electric vehicle pilots funded from carbon-reduction monies are paused pending suitable equipment and infrastructure.
Dave Thurber, superintendent of the AOT Central Garage, told the Senate Transportation Committee the central garage’s FY26 equipment plan includes $9 million for purchases, with roughly $7 million earmarked for dump trucks and $6.7 million reflected as fleet depreciation. He said supply-chain timing has extended truck replacement cycles and that some vehicle categories are older than AOT’s target rotation.
Thurber described a roughly 4 percent increase in parts and equipment costs from FY25 to FY26 and said manufacturers’ production constraints have limited chassis and heavy-equipment availability. “The dump trucks will chew up…
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