This month underscored that the garage is a performance tool and that the “horrors” are fixable with fundamentals: build technician pipelines, treat EVs as infrastructure with power, siting, and training, and focus telematics on a few owned, actioned reports.
Policy takeaways were practical, with ISA tightening compliance with minimal disruption and high-vision requirements belonging in specs rather than retrofits. Recent leadership lessons stressed adoption over new tools, while preparedness drills for asset visibility and communications failover shortened recovery times.
Claims work revealed missed dollars in loss of use, diminished value, and upfit labor, best captured with templates and clear statutes. Ohio’s DFR pilot showed policy and community buy-in matter as much as hardware. Plus, a final GFX programming note.
In this episode
🏗️ Building a garage that works today and tomorrow: Facilities as operational investments that improve uptime, safety, and lifecycle cost: The Business Case for Building a Modern Fleet Maintenance Garage
🧰 The Halloween “horrors” you can actually fix: Technician pipeline, EV infrastructure, data overload, budget pressure, aging assets, first-time managers, and PM discipline: Challenges Haunting Public Sector Fleets: Facing Fears Head-On
🚦 Policy & safety to watch: Intelligent Speed Assist results and high-vision truck specs: Speed Smarter, See Better: Fleet Innovations from Somerset
📊 Balancing refurbishment and replacement, leveraging data for preventive maintenance: Balancing Refurbishment, Replacement, and Retention in Your Fleet
📡 Asset visibility, comms redundancy, and training drills: Building Stronger Cultures and Smarter Leadership in Fleet Organizations
💸 Dollars on the table: Recovering loss of use, diminished value, and total-loss upfit costs: Are You Recovering Loss of Use & Diminution of Value?
🛩️ Response tech: Ohio’s statewide Drone First Responder pilot: Ohio Launches Statewide Drone First Responder Program
📣 Programming note: GFX 2026 Call for Papers (deadline Dec. 1, 2025): GFX 2026 Call for Papers Now Open
Timestamps
0:00 – Intro
0:20 – The “Invisible Heartbeat”: Facilities as an Operational Investment
1:35 – Halloween Horrors: Real Operational Risks, Practical Fixes
3:30 – Policy & Safety: ISA and High-Vision Trucks
4:10 – People, Data, and Adoption (RTA Connect)
4:40 – Preparedness Gaps
5:10 – Dollars on the Table: Claims Recovery Done Right
6:10 – Ohio’s Drone First Responder Pilot
6:30 – GFX 2026 Call for Papers
6:40 – Wrap
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