Steve Saltzgiver

A fleet-industry veteran with more than 40 years of experience.

Get to Know Steve

Hall of Fame Fleet Leader & Veteran Fleet Consultant

Fleet Management Hall of Famer Steve Saltzgiver has more than 45 years of fleet experience. Steve's extensive resume includes working at large corporate fleets such as Republic Services and Coca-Cola. He also spent time working with government fleets, including the states of Utah and Georgia, and the Utah Transit Authority. He has an abundance of fleet knowledge and experience and loves sharing it with others.

Areas of Expertise

As a long-time fleet veteran, Steve is comfortable speaking on all fleet topics. Some of his particular areas of interest include:

Fleet Efficiency: How to Utilize Performance Analysis and Benchmarking

Steve is an experienced expert in helping fleet operations become more efficient. He's utilized several different tactics in his career to help organizations go lean while still staying productive. During sessions on this topic, he will cover many areas, including:

Setting shop standards and optimizing technician productivity
Identifying standard operating procedures
Discovering inefficiencies and how to fix them

Why Strategic Business Planning Is Important

Steve will explain why it's essential for fleet operations to have a strategic business plan in place, and offers numerous tips, including:

How to perform business process mapping
How to complete evaluations
When reengineering or organizational redesign is necessary
How to achieve optimization and administrative centralization

How To Right-Size a Fleet

Steve is an expert in helping fleets determine how many vehicles, and which types, they need in their fleet. Some points he highlights include:

How to determine when a vehicle should be replaced
How to audit and assess your fleet
What metrics you should be using to determine TCO and when to replace assets

Making the Change to EVs, Alternative Fuels

Making the transition to electronic vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles requires a lot of planning and prep work. Steve covers necessary topics, including:

Sustainable fleet planning
How to prepare your shop for alternative fuel and propulsion systems
Operational plans to prepare for EVs

"As a veteran fleet management professional, employing operational excellence (OE) tools, such as Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, and others, is not just an option but a crucial necessity in optimizing the overall maintenance of fleet assets. These OE tools empower fleet operators to drive efficiency, minimize downtime, and enhance overall employee performance, resulting in substantial cost savings and improved service delivery over the life of any asset. "

- Steve Saltzgiver, Sr. Fleet Success Director at RTA