Description

The Archuleta County Fleet Department is responsible for the maintenance of all vehicles and heavy equipment owned and used by Archuleta County. Fleet maintains a variety of small gasoline engines, automobiles, and heavy equipment. Fleet is also responsible for tracking all maintenance, inventory, and labor. The Fleet Department is comprised of a Fleet Manager, 3 Mechanics, and a Service Writer. Archuleta County Fleet Department works along the side of all entities affiliated with the county to ensure vehicles and equipment is safe and operable.  

2024 Accomplishments

• Continued to provide exceptional service throughout Archuleta County departments
• Kept up with work load while operating short staffed for over six months
• Assisted with other departments needs and challenges
• Created and billed more work orders than in the previous year
• Replaced engine and transmission in old plow truck extending its useful life to Archuleta County
• Replaced shop lighting to LED, making us eligible for incentives through LPEA
• Kept an accurate inventory throughout the year
• Addressed and repaired all wrecked units
• Received more training on diagnostics and other mechanical components

Core Services:

Fleet maintains Archuleta County vehicles to a state of safe and operable condition. 

Aspects of the scheduled and unscheduled maintenance that require fleet to keep vehicles in a safe operating condition: 

2026 Goals

• Remain fully staffed  
• Keep working on accuracy of our billing process 
• Increase fleet shop rate  
• Continue to work on the representation of Archuleta County  
• Raise inventory for high use items (due to national shortages) 
• Replace outdated small fleet vehicles 
• Work on simplifying vehicle scheduling