From general trends to tips and challenges, Work Truck gathered up the top maintenance-focused articles into one place to help fleet managers up their maintenance game.
How are truck parts and availability impacting overall work truck fleet maintenance costs? Where are all the parts?
What challenges are fleets seeing related to truck fleet maintenance? What items are commonly overlooked?
Defining fixed and variable costs, opportunity costs, cost-per-mile vs. engine hours, the total cost of ownership, and remarketing costs.
Fuel, maintenance, safety, spec’ing, and selling strategies to help benefit fleet budgets are shared.
The partnership between Samsara and Pitstop will enable fleet managers to know exactly when to replace tires, brakes, batteries, and more while optimizing for reduced emissions.
Part and labor prices have increased 4-8%, while part and labor availability have decreased. Due to difficulties sourcing replacement vehicles, fleets are keeping units in service longer. This caused repair spend to increase in 2021.
Many tire OEMs have increased prices in CY-2021, ranging from 3-10% depending on type of tire and size. Higher commodity prices and increased ocean freight rates are being passed on to end users as OE profit margins compress.
While repair and maintenance costs decreased considerably in 2019, the industry could see an increase in maintenance costs driven by a strong demand for trucking. Here's the maintenance you need to know from HDT's 2021 Fact Book.
Utilizing tools beyond the ones on the truck shop wall can help you keep truck maintenance costs in check and reduce costly downtime.
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