[Moving Mountains] Delivery van mileage

[Hutchinson, Judy]

Rosario, 

Within the Prairie Area Library System (www.palsnet.info), we operate 10
library delivery routes, carried 2.1 million items our last fiscal year,
and drive nearly 450,000 miles a year to deliver materials for our
members. 

We go out for bid for our delivery vans, but have also purchased Ford
Econoline extended cab vans in the last few years (since they've
consistently won the bid).  We buy on average two new delivery vans each
year. We try to get at least 200,000 miles on the vans before we trade
them.  We do, in fact, have two vans that are over 200,000 miles right
now and they are still going strong!  The engines are fine, although the
bodies are starting to show some wear. We are still able to get decent
trade-ins on the older vans because of the many companies interested in
purchased used delivery vehicles. 

Hope this helps, or let me know if I can be of any further assistance. 

Judy
 
Judy Hutchinson
Administrative Services Manager
Prairie Area Library System 
220 W. 23rd Ave, PO Box 125
Coal Valley, IL  61240
 
judyh at palsnet.info
309-799-3155, x 3150
877-LIB-PALS
 
www.palsnet.info

-----Original Message-----
From: Downing, Mary [mailto:MDowning at ILSOS.NET] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:54 PM
To: Bob Towner (E-mail); Roman, Brenda; Charm Ruhnke (E-mail); Chris
Janvrin (E-mail); Claudia Sheets (E-mail); Faith Jones (E-mail); Frank
Gorchos (E-mail); Jim Holt (E-mail); Hutchinson, Judy; Larry Krenos
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Subject: FW: [Moving Mountains] Delivery van mileage

Hi Folks,
This person attended a meeting in Denver about delivery last September
that some of us from Illinois attended and after that, they set up a
listserv. I thought that all of you could add your two cents to this
question.

Mary Downing
Specialized Services Consultant
Illinois State Library
Gwendolyn Brooks Building
300 S. Second St.
Springfield, IL 62701
Phone: 217-782-5506
E-mail mdowning at ilsos.net <mailto:mdowning at ilsos.net>
Fax: 217-782-1877
 
Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian
 
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian
who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Barbara Kingsolver
 


-----Original Message-----
From: movingmountains-bounces at swonlibraries.org
[mailto:movingmountains-bounces at swonlibraries.org]On Behalf Of Rosario
Garza
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:43 PM
To: movingmountains at swonlibraries.org
Subject: [Moving Mountains] Delivery van mileage


Folks:

If you own your delivery vans, how many miles do you typically put on
your vans before you start to consider trading them in? We currently own
2 Ford Econoline vans, one purchased in Jan. 2005 and the other one
acquired in June 2006. We put about 150 miles/day on each, or about 750
miles/week (in LA/Orange County traffic). The older van has
approximately 92,000 miles on it right now. In the past, we've started
thinking new van at around 100,000 miles. 

Do you keep your vans for longer mileage? Thanks for any and all
rsponses.

Rosario Garza
Executive Director
MCLS
3675 E. Huntington Dr., Ste 100
Pasadena, CA 91107
http://www.mcls.org   /   rgarza at mcls.org
626-683-8244    /    FAX: 626-683-8097


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