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Fleet director: truck replacement slipping toward 10-year cycle amid upfitter bottlenecks and rising costs
Summary
The Century Garage fleet director told the Senate Transportation committee the fleet has 255 dump trucks, with 97 already eight years or older; he said supply-chain delays, a vendor upfitting bottleneck and rising prices mean the program is falling behind an eight-year replacement goal and faces a roughly $5.3 million shortfall to restore an optimal pace.
Dave Gerber, director of the Century Garage Fleet, told the Senate Transportation committee the state's vehicle replacement program is behind schedule and faces supply-chain and upfitting constraints that extend lead times and raise costs.
"We have 255 in the fleet... There's 97 that are eight years and over," Gerber said, summarizing the age profile for dump trucks and warning that 29 more units will turn eight in the next 12 months.
Gerber said to maintain an eight-year replacement cadence the agency would need to replace about 32…
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