Some of the leading STUs have tens and thousands of buses running round the clock both on inter city and city routes. These buses need regular maintenance and these large organizations have large facilities to keep these vehicles running on the roads. Some requirements are outsourced such as coach building while some STUs build them in their own regional workshops. The mechanical upkeep of these buses are done both in depot and in workshops. Some of the buses in the fleet need specialized care such as the Volvos which are maintained by Volvo personnel deployed in depots itself as told by a BMTC staff. Some information collated from various STU websites are as follows. Any more information and pictures of workshops, buses under maintenance, depots, maintenance schedules are most welcome.
APSRTC
APSRTC follows two tier maintenance i.e. preventive maintenance of buses at depots and major repairs/ overhauls at workshops. To serve this purpose Corporation has constructed 7 retreading shops and 7 work shops. The Bus Body Building Unit in Hyderabad builds more than 600 bus bodies every year.
Modern and updated technologies have also been introduced. To provide thorough cleaning in minimum possible time, 28 Automatic Washing machines were installed at major bus stations and district head quarters depots at a cost of Rs. 28 millions. Each machine washes about 250 buses a day effectively
Infrastructure BMTC
Every month all the BMTC buses are subjected to smoke check. The depots are provided with computerized emission testing machines. Emission norms ensured.
Preventive and periodical maintenance are being carried out as per the recommendation of the vehicle manufacturers and the schedule is as follows.
- Daily maintenance (Every day)
- Alternate day maintenance (Once in two days)
- Ten day maintenance (Once in 10 days)
- Docking-I, for every 20000 kms of operations.
- Docking-II, for every 40000 kms of operations.
- Docking-III, for every 60000 kms of operations.
- Docking-IV, for every 80000 kms of operations.
The Corporation has provided four Mobile Workshops, which attends the en-route breakdowns immediately after receiving the message.
Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation BEST
The transport wing of B.E.S. & T. undertaking operates buses within the Municipal limits of Greater Bombay and it is presently extended up to Belapur in Navi Mumbai in northeast direction as well as up to Bhayander and Teen hath naka at Thane.
In order to keep this bus fleet roadworthy, a Two-Tier System of maintenance is followed by Transportation Engineering Department. A workshop located centrally at Tilak road near Khodadad Circle, Dadar acts as one work centre, which carries out major overhauling of all units, chassis, major body damage repairs and modification work, replacement of heavy units, reclamation work. This system facilitates grouping of jobs requiring same process / machines / equipment's together for better utilization of manpower.
Depot is another work centre, which provides bus services effectively on every day, carries out preventive maintenance as well as repairs on buses. We have 25 depots located in four zones viz. City, Central, Western, Eastern suburban zones.
Dadar workshop has a built up area of 27,170 square meters. All Unit overhauling, repairing of Body damages, tyre cut repairs, plant & equipment installation and repairs, reclaimation activities are carried out in the workshop.
Operation wing consists of 25 depots spread over the areas of greater Mumbai in addition to Bus Control section, Motor vehicle section and statistical section. For its effective bus operation all the depots carry out various maintenance practices such as preventive maintenance, unit replacement, RTO passing, body damage repairs of buses. An imprest stock of various units, important chassis / bus components is maintained at depot level. Depot replaces the defective units with the imprest stock units and sends the defective unit to Material Control section of workshop for repairs.
Transport Engineering MSRTC
MSRTC is the second largest Corporation in the Transport Sector. ME Department is the main important faculty operating and maintaining fleet of about 16,000 buses and making them available for operation throughout Maharashtra. This Department works on two fragments viz. production and operation and for this purpose it has got network of depots, Divisional Workshops. New buses are built at the 3 Central Workshops i.e. Pune, Aurangabad and Nagpur. As mentioned, for production of new buses and maintenance of buses, ME Department has got 3 tier system i.e. Central Workshops, Divisional Workshops and depots. The organizational structure of ME Department is attached at Annexure 'A'.
New bus body building and chassis purchase.
ME Department purchase chassis and construct new bus bodies at the 3 Central Workshops as per the requirement of the Traffic Department. The bus bodies constructed are of ordinary and Semi Luxury type. The overall capacity of the construction of new bus body is about 1836 buses per annum. The Central Workshopwise capacity and man hours prescribed are as follows..
Further, the Central Workshops are also equipped with repairs, calibration and reconditioning of engine and FI Pumps. ME Department have framed maintenance policy based on the recommendations of chassis manufacturers. This policy is called as Vehicle Maintenance Policy describing GSO no. 1125. ME Department is having 32 Divisional Workshops located at the Divisional Headquarters wherein vehicle maintenance is carried out as follows..
Six monthly docking.
RTO passing.
Assembly overhauling.
Accident Repairs.
These Divisional Workshops are attached with unit of Divisional reconditioning unit wherein the complete reconditioning of the bus at the prescribed age (After 3 years, 5 years and 7 years of the bus life) is carried out.
Depot Workshops.
ME Department is having 248 Depot Workshops for daily maintenance and running repairs of the buses. The main jobs carried out are as follows.
Daily Maintenance.
Decadely Maintenance.
Engine Oil Change.
By-Monthly Docking.
Running repairs.
These Depot Workshops are equipped with sub stores for making various spare parts material available required for above repairs.
Tyre Retreading Plants.
ME Department is controlling 9 Tyre Retreading Plants wherein the retreading and service repairs of tyres by precured process is carried out in order to provide required no. of rtd. tyres for the division. The TRPs are situated at C.W.Pune, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Nanded, Jalgaon, Nashik, Latur, Amravati and Ratnagiri.
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