Strong maintenance planning in the fleet industry is a preventive track towards improved safety. Unscheduled checkups, like unexpected truck malfunctions, involve costly repairs and significant company down time due to stalled trucks. However, regular scheduled maintenance checkups on fleet trucks can prevent, detect and repair minor problems before they become serious and expensive issues.
With the tools and technology available today, developing and implementing a strategic plan is easier than ever–saving a company valuable time, money and frustration.
Here are a few tips to keep your fleet and maintenance plan running smoothly with the goal of ultimate safety:
Tip #1: Develop a comprehensive maintenance checklist for vehicles. Based on fleet needs and requirements, routine preventative checklists will consist of diversifying items. However, some essential yet common needs include engine oil and filter changes, tune-ups, seatbelt checks, braking system reviews, fuel system verification, and exterior and interior lighting functionality.
Tip #2: Develop a schedule that works for your fleet. To determine when the appropriate time that maintenance checkups should take place, review the following within all fleets: miles traveled, engine hours, fuel usage, calendar time, and emergency repairs. Tracking these factors accurately could reveal patterns to help establish a timeline on maintenance efforts.
Tip #3: Track and simplify record keeping. To simplify record keeping within a business and reduce time-consuming tactics while improving production, take advantage of today’s innovative technology by upgrading systems. Telematics allows fleets to examine driver performance–therefore, making it easier to know when to have scheduled checkups take place.
Impac offers start-of-the-art fleet fuel card programs and GPS tracking and reporting systems targeted to ease maintenance plans and improve overall safety. At Impac, our professionals strive to simplify all the processes embedded in a competitive, complex market.
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