Annual Federal Fleet Report Of Trucks
The annual Federal Fleet Report provides an intriguing overview of the state of the union’s largest fleet of motor vehicles, which totaled more than 620,000 in fiscal year 2004.
Each year, the General Service Administration’s Office of Governmentwide Policy’s Federal Vehicle Management Division compiles a detailed report on the state of the federal government’s fleet of civil vehicles. As with previous years, the recently released fiscal year 2004 report is interesting on a number of levels and merits attention from the points of view of fleet managers and taxpayers alike.
GSA’s fleet report is produced using the Federal Automotive Statistical Tool. FAST is an Internet-based system that collects fleet-related data from federal government agencies. In addition to being used by GSA to compile the Federal Fleet Report, FAST is used by the Department of Energy to track alternative-fuel vehicle and fuel use; by the Energy Information Agency to track federal vehicle location data; and by the Office of Management and Budget to determine agency fleet budget submissions.
“We have reformatted the report this year to provide a more detailed view of the federal motor vehicle fleet,”
“Vehicle categories are now defined as either passenger-carrying vehicles or trucks. Passenger vans and sport utility vehicles are further defined within the light and medium passenger-carrying classifications,”
“Additionally, special purpose vehicles are now included in the report. We have redesigned the report’s charts and graphs to provide more useful representations of trend data.
“The fiscal year 2004 report was produced within our target period of four months after the close on the fiscal year”"This improved timeliness and the report’s redesign significantly increase the report’s value to federal agencies as they continue to evaluate methodologies to increase the efficiency of their fleets.”
The Federal Fleet Report summarizes statistical data by passenger-carrying vehicles, trucks and all other vehicle types. Data are further summarized by characterizing each agency’s vehicles by civilian, military and U.S. Postal Service, and in some instances, by vehicle source and location. Vehicle types identified in the report include sport utility vehicles, light duty trucks, medium duty trucks, heavy duty trucks, ambulances, buses, sedans, station wagons, and passenger vans.
Totaling more than 620,000 for fiscal year 2004, vehicles used by federal departments, agencies and their contractors are obtained from three primary sources: agency purchase, lease from the GSA Fleet Program, and commercial lease. Data in this report present inventory, utilization, costs and fuel use associated with the federal motor vehicle fleet.
Data are also displayed by vehicle type, and in some cases, by location Overviews of tabular data are also displayed in graphical charts for both the current year and five-year trends.
Privately-owned vehicles used by federal employees on official business are not included in the Federal Fleet Report, nor are short-term commercial rental vehicles, i.e., those used less than 60 continuous days.
