VIBE Award: Vendor in Business Excellence

Published on January 12, 2022

Standing left to right, Chris Little, Parts Manager, Mitch Foster, Service Manager, and Ryan Keith, General Manager

Public Works' Fleet Services team is pleased to announce their first-ever VIBE Award (Vendor in Business Excellence) recipient.  The award was presented to American Equipment Company for their outstanding business partnership with the Unified Government in 2021.

Located in Kansas City, Kansas, American Equipment Company supplies Public Works' Fleet Services and Street Maintenance teams with snow plows, salt spreaders, truck beds, asphalt crack sealing machines, street flushers, and the equipment needed to produce salt brine.  Their work allows the Fleet Services team to keep critical vehicles, like snow plows, on the ground when they're needed most.

American Equipment Company was selected for their:

  • Proactive thinking
  • Communication skills
  • Customer service
  • Professionalism
  • Timeliness
  • Integrity
  • Good stewardship of taxpayer dollars
  • Reliability,
  • Education/Training

Thank you and congratulations to the American Equipment Company team!