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Resolution to Amend the Fleet and Facility Unit FY13 Budget by Appropriating Funds from the Fleet Services Fund Balance and to Approve the Purchase of Ten Side Loading Refuse Trucks from Fredrickson Supply (ITB # 4250 $2,832,394.00) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
The attached resolution authorizes the purchase of eight side loading refuse trucks with a single automated arm and two trucks with dual arms. The trucks will be used by the Public Services Area, Field Operations Unit and Recycle Ann Arbor. Five single arm trucks and one dual arm truck are for the Solid Waste group and three single and one dual arm trucks are for Recycle Ann Arbor.
All ten trucks will use 2013 Mack model LEU chassis’s and Labrie model Expert Long Reach Helping Hand packer bodies. The single arm trucks have one arm that extends from the curb side of the truck with 120” of reach for grabbing and emptying carts. The dual arm trucks have the same arm and a second arm that extends up to 84” from the street side of the truck. Both arms are operated by a single joystick with a switch for selecting the arm that is to be operated. The dual arms will allow the operator to collect carts from both sides of one way streets and alleys in one pass.
Fredrickson Supply, LLC, Wyoming, MI using Interstate Truck Source, Inc., Romulus, MI as its subcontractor/chassis supplier, was the lowest responsible bidder to ITB # 4250, dated September 7, 2012 (see attached bid tab). The price for the eight single arm trucks is $278,443.00 each and the two dual arm trucks are $302,425.00 each for a total purchase price of $2,832,394.00.
The units that will be used by the Solid Waste group will replace four 2004 and two 2005 model year trucks. Over the last five year the average cost of non maintenance (unscheduled) repairs has increased 49% from $31,743.00 to $62,183.00 per truck. The majority of the trucks have reached or exceeded the life expectancy of the engine hours. An engine failure would cost an esti...
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