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Whole Fleet Management Integrated Project Team (WFM IPT)

Challenger 2 with open Controlled Humidity Environment (CHE)

The MoD can afford new vehicles and equipment only if we buy less and manage them better.  At the moment 60% of our trucks do less than 500 miles a year.

The MoD are planning to replace 14,000 trucks with 5,000 future cargo vehicles (retaining 2, 500 4T DAF trucks)

Whole Fleet Management is the only way to ensure we can continue to meet unit training requirements and operations with these reduced fleets.

  • The Defence Green fleet consists of about 60,000 vehicles.Whole Fleet Management has been trialled for more than three years in Germany.
  • Under Whole Fleet Management unit vehicle holdings will be reduced  in line with a units role and readiness state. Some units will see their vehicle holdings reduced by about 50% -60% .
  • Trials show that this frees on average about four hours a week are freed up for each soldier in the unit, from time previously spent on vehicle maintenance. Time which can be better used.
  • Vehicles removed from units will be stored centrally in Controlled Humidity Environment (CHE). Other armies, such as the Swedes, the Dutch and the Germans, have been successfully using CHE for years.
  • All the unit’s training mandated needs will be met; units will receive vehicles from the central pool to supplement their vehicle holdings when necessary.

Units will be provided with leased white fleet vehicles to undertake administrative tasks.  This has been shown to be cheaper and more efficient.

  • Interim WFM begins for real in late Autumn 2005 with the roll-out of JAMES 1 to 102 Log Bde who will be the first full Brigade to operate under Interim WFM principles. This follows the progressive roll-out of JAMES 1 to TFSU(UK), TFSU(G) and HQ Land Command, and a Fielding Pilot to 7 Armd Bde's Rear Party.
  • Whole Fleet Management can only be managed effectively with a new information system, JAMES.  JAMES 1 was piloted in Catterick by 1 KINGS Regiment in March, and installed in each Brigade as Whole Fleet Management is rolled out

Last Updated: 24 Jan 06