Fleet Resources
Working material for the people who run fleets — vendor selection, the numbers worth tracking, and planning that survives contact with operations. Written plainly, with no fabricated benchmarks.
How to Choose a Fleet Maintenance Provider
A working evaluation framework for choosing a commercial fleet maintenance provider — capability fit, scheduling, records, communication, and the questions that expose weak vendors.
What to Ask in a Fleet Maintenance RFP
Most fleet maintenance RFPs weight hourly rate and miss what predicts the relationship: capacity, communication, and what happens when something goes wrong. The questions to ask and what a weak answer sounds like.
Outsourcing vs In-House Fleet Maintenance
Comparing a shop rate to a technician's wage gives the wrong answer. The full cost of in-house capability, the real cost of outsourcing, and where each one actually wins.
Fleet Maintenance KPIs Worth Tracking
The maintenance numbers that actually inform decisions — availability, scheduled-vs-unscheduled ratio, repeat repairs, cost per mile — and how small fleets track them without software.
Your Vehicle Out-of-Service Rate, and What It Is Telling You
Your fleet's vehicle out-of-service rate is public on FMCSA's SAFER snapshot. How to look it up, how it compares to the 22.26% national average, what it means versus the driver rate, and what actually moves it.
Truck Cost Per Mile: The Honest Breakdown
How to compute your fleet's real cost per mile — the categories, the formula, the traps (downtime and depreciation), and why published benchmarks mislead. No fabricated numbers.
Fleet Maintenance Checklist
A working fleet maintenance checklist split the honest way: daily driver checks, scheduled PM items, and what belongs to professional inspection. Printable, no fluff.
Why Pre-Trip Inspections Stop Finding Defects
Most out-of-service violations are conditions a driver could have seen. Why pre-trip inspections quietly stop working, what a real one looks like, and the two numbers that tell you whether yours is functioning.
Building a Fleet Maintenance Budget
Split planned from unplanned spend, build from your own duty-cycle history rather than industry averages, and manage the ratio between them. The line items fleets routinely forget.
Talk to us about your fleet
Tell us what you run and what's been eating your uptime. We'll review it and talk through what a maintenance rhythm with one shop would look like — honestly, including whether we're the right fit.