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Review of the Efficiency of the Job Duties of Motor Truck Drivers

March 30, 2011

Summary

The IGO published a report of findings regarding the efficiency of the City’s use of Motor Truck Drivers in multiple departments across the City. This review was prompted by a string of observations by IGO staff and complaints from City residents of City employees seen idling at jobsites for extended stretches of time.

Executive Summary

This review focuses on the efficiency of the job duties of MTDs, on the premise that an efficient use of an MTD is having him/her perform job duties that cannot easily be incorporated into another employee’s responsibilities. The review was only concerned with whether the assignment of MTDs and the division of labor between MTDs and the other City employees they work with is efficient in relation to that underlying premise. It does not examine whether the underlying operation was efficient even though we may have elsewhere questioned (and continue to question) the overall efficiency of certain of the operations.

Review of the Efficiency of the Job Duties of Motor Truck Drivers - publication cover