Are Maintenance & Operations Reporting Creating
 Chaos for Your Fleet? It’s Time for a Repair!

ATA's VMRS: Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards

“We have been using VMRS at Southeastern Freight Lines since its inception. It is the foundation of our maintenance reporting and is paramount to us being able to generate the information we need to manage both our fleet and maintenance facilities.”                            David Foster                            Vice-President of Maintenance                            Southeastern Freight Lines, Inc.                            Columbia, SC

Simplify, clarify and unify with ATA’s VMRS. Create a single, concise method to manage fleet assets and analyze maintenance operations and costs. Developed by the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC), the leading voice on industry best practices, VMRS 2000™ is the universal language of maintenance reporting—the vital link between the shop floor and management. ATA’s VMRS 2000 helps you create a single process to:

• Document when, why, and how maintenance is performed on equipment.
• Improve equipment and parts inventory control.
• Identify where money is spent.
• Help control costs and create greater efficiency.
• Manage a wide variety of equipment, including trucks of all types, cars, buses, vans, construction equipment, and more.

Here’s How It Works

ATA’s VMRS 2000 is not a software program—it’s a universal coding convention you can download and utilize with your current software at a single location or company-wide across multiple sites. ATA’s VMRS also is available for use in paper forms and other materials. VMRS 2000 provides a logical, easy-to-use language that ties together all the maintenance and operation information your fleet needs. VMRS 2000 defines:

• Equipment Classification Codes—Precise codes used to describe and classify many types of equipment.
• Labor Codes—Easy-to-use codes to describe numerous labor tasks. ATA’s VMRS uses concise descriptions to define labor and warranty operations.
• Part Description Codes—ATA’s VMRS contains more than 24,000 universal descriptor codes to identify individual parts found on a piece of equipment. These codes do not replace the manufacturer’s part number, but rather provide your fleet one standard item number to describe the same part regardless of the manufacturer.
• Manufacturer/Supplier/Brand Codes—More than 3,000 listings used to easily identify manufacturers, suppliers and brands.

Even better, ATA’s VMRS evolves as fleets evolve—constantly updating as new vehicles and parts are introduced. What’s more, customers may request new codes free of charge.

Why Deal with Chaos? You Can Have Order and Efficiency!

How many different ways can a technician describe tasks on a repair order? As many ways as there are technicians! That’s why it can be difficult to extract consistent data from vehicle repair orders to generate maintenance cost reports. VMRS 2000 simplifies the process, ensuring industry standard codes are used to alpha-numerically describe maintenance functions consistently and accurately. For example, VMRS can describe a diesel particulate filter service with just the following alphanumeric characters:

                                      03 043-001-053 FRGHT 64 01 02 01

03 .......	Work Accomplished ...................	Replace, New
043-001-053 ........	Part Identification ......................	Diesel Particulate Filter
FRGHT .......	Manufacturer Identification ........	Freightliner
64 .......	Technician Failure Code ............	Plugged
01 .......	Reason for Repair .....................	Breakdown
02 .......	Repair Priority ...........................	Non-Scheduled
01 .......	Repair Site ...............................	Facility

How to Get Started?

Fleets looking to implement VMRS to enhance their company-wide maintenance reporting practices should purchase the ATA VMRS 2000 Electronic Media - Enterprise Version. Product developers and vendors that would like to incorporate the VMRS in their products and services, should purchase the ATA VMRS 2000 Electronic Media - Developer Version.