RTMS (Road Transport

Management System)
TruckX – 2016

Adrian van Tonder

Chairman SA RTMS National Steering Committee
General Manager Technical
Barloworld Transport
 Agenda
• Background and problem statement
• RTMS (Road Transport Management System) Overview
• Growth of RTMS in SA
Reality Check
Reality Check
 Brake & Tyre Watch Results
Location Inspected Discontinued %
City Deep 24 21 88%
Middelburg 35 24 69%
Centurion 41 17 42%
Midway KZN 26 10 38%
Kroonstad 8 7 92% 32
Brackenfell, W.
Cape
25 25 100% B&TW
Pietermaritzburg 12 11 92% events
Port Elizabeth 15 6 40% from
Rustenburg 7 5 72%
Feb.
Polokwane 11 10 91%
Midway KZN 24 20 83% 2006
Bloemfontein 24 20 83% to date
Nelspruit/Komati 13 12 92%
TOTAL (32 666 452 68%
events)
 Excess heavy vehicle maintenance and
repair costs
Average percentage
Average Average percentage
Road increase in the truck
maintenance and increase in company
condition maintenance and
repair cost (R/km) logistics cost
repair cost

Good R 0.96 - -

Fair R 1.24 30% 2.6%

Bad R 2.11 121% 10.4%

 Road Freight Challenges
The Reality: A Culture of Non-compliance
• Inputs
o Overloading
o Poor vehicle fitness (servicing & maintenance)
o Poor driver fitness (fatigue, health, training)
o Reckless driver behaviour
o Border post delays
o Bribery & corruption – impact on compliant and non-compliant
operators
o Inadequate periodic maintenance (roads)
• Outputs
o Poor road safety
o High cost of road transport/logistics
o Deterioration of infrastructure
o High levels of emissions
The Road Transport Management System

• RTMS is an industry–led, government-

supported, voluntary, self-regulation scheme
that encourages consignees, consignors and
road transport operators to implement a
management systems standard with
outcomes that contribute to preserving road
infrastructure, improving road safety and
increasing productivity.

• Key focus areas are:

- load optimisation
- driver wellness
- vehicle maintenance
- productivity
Practical requirements of RTMS
 Growth of the RTMS in SA
200 fleets
representing
10 000 trucks &
buses (In 2007
their were 74
certified
vehicles)
Four bus
operators:
• Buscor 404
buses
• Intercape 152
coaches
• GABS Over
1000 buses
24 abnormal load operators: • Intestate
• 258 vehicles (Bloem)
• Plant hire, construction, engineering, mobile cranes
• 2 commercial A/L operators (108 vehicles)
RTMS Accreditation
Overview 2005 - 2012
Overview 2005 - 2012
Fleet management was generally viewed as a fleet maintenance service, which led to
the various activities being dealt with on a decentralised somewhat fragmented basis.

During the financial year 05 / 06 the organisational structure of fleet services was
reviewed and consequently aligned with a proposed business model which provided
functionally aligned vehicles to the operations in terms of an internal price recovery
agreement.

Fleet Statistics
The Electricity Services fleet comprised a fleet of 840 vehicles ranging from off road utility
vehicles, sedans, ldv's and panel vans to light, medium and heavy trucks as well as a
variety of truck mounted aerial platforms
The fleet stock replacement cycle at the time was 33 years which was far above the
industry norms for vehicle replacement. Current average Fleet stock replacement cycle 8.5
years
Functional alignment - 40% > 95%

Fleet availability – 65% > 92.7%

Committed to service excellence and protection of the environment Strategy and Culture
KPI Improvements
Maintenance compliance

Feb 2008 - Oct 2012

Committed to service excellence and protection of the environment Introduction

KPI Improvements
Fuel Consumption

Benefits derived from

adequate investment in fleet

Fleet functional alignment

Fuel efficient technology

Committed to service excellence and protection of the environment Incident rate

KPI Improvements
Incident Rate vs Km travelled

International
benchmark 7.5%

Committed to service excellence and protection of the environment Statutory Compliant

• The way forward…
• RTMS standard (SANS 1395) was published in Dec 2014.
• SANS 1395 is closely aligned to ISO 39001.

• RTMS auditors will be appointed and managed by SANAS

under SANS 17021.
• 200 RTMS certified companies / depots.
• Currently 10 000 vehicles are RTMS certified (In 2007 when
RTMS started 74 vehicles were certified)
• RTMS AGM – 27 August 2015 Resolution passed – Annual
Membership fee – R50 / Vehicle / year
Thank You