Program Description

  Heavy Equipment Services

Heavy Equipment Services (HES) maintains and repairs heavy equipment, including heavy dump trucks, straight trucks, construction equipment, snow plows, leafers, mowers, backhoes, hydraulic excavators, and other specialized pieces of equipment. HES provides maintenance support for public safety and other County vehicles that support services to County residents, without which such services would be severely impacted. HES maintains the County's dump trucks before, during, and after a storm, ensuring high availability of equipment to provide safe travel routes for emergency vehicles and County residents. HES provides direct vehicle maintenance support at the Gaithersburg, Poolesville, Damascus, Bethesda, Colesville, and Silver Spring depots.