Virginia Dept of Transportation
Lynchburg District

The Lynchburg District of the Virginia Department of Transportation is located in south-central Virginia. There are approximately 750 employees in the district office, 26 area headquarters, sub-areas and equipment shops. They are responsible for approximately 15,000 miles of primary and secondary roads.

The mission of the Lynchburg District Equipment Section, recipient of the PdM Program of the Year Award, is to provide the operations group with maximum equipment availability, performance to meet or exceed requirements, asset preservation to maximize value, and related support services at the most efficient cost effective means possible. They view the measure of a successful program not as how many failures they fix but rather in the number of failures that don’t occur.

This program is based on excellence and there are many indications that they are in the top quartile for maintenance and reliability programs. The maintenance team has obviously put a great deal of time, money and effort into the lubrication and oil analysis programs and that is benefiting the entire maintenance and repair program.

Particularly impressive is the way that they focused on the human side to evolved the program to gain acceptance and confidence - thereby creating a more solid foundation and increasing the likelihood of a sustainable program well into the future. The use of metrics that everyone can agree on is also very impressive. It is also beneficial that they have a plan to continue improvement with implementation of higher level strategies for reliability.