Now that you've managed to make the right decision on acquiring fleet vehicles for your home service business, you're going to have to figure out how you'll maintain them. If you made the choice to lease your vehicles, it's possible to get a maintenance plan through a fleet management service.
Even if you bought your fleet vehicles, it's still possible to get a maintenance program if you went through the right source.
Either way, maintenance is at the center of how well your fleet vehicles perform to stay competitive.
How Maintenance Keeps You Profitable
When you go through a fleet management consultancy, they'll often offer you maintenance and repair. They'll also offer other services wrapped around maintenance, usually connecting to one another.
For instance, if you decide to lease your vehicle through a fleet management service, they'll likely give you options like walk-away leases or equipment leasing.
This proves the worth of leasing directly through these consultants rather than going straight to a dealership. Having all fleet management services bundled together in one location is going to benefit you financially in the long run.
With maintenance and repair taken care of through a single source, it's going to help your drivers save on gas finding ways to fix vehicle issues.
Using Technology as Part of Your Maintenance Plan
Working with your consultant, you'll have access to leasing various technologies in your vehicles to help monitor any need for maintenance.
The key is to always empower your drivers to take care of their fleet vehicles as they spend long hours behind the wheel. It can start by using telematics, which is technology designed to monitor problems in your trucks.
You can lease devices like dashcams, GPS systems, and other tracking devices built in to your vehicles. These are going to help alert you to any problems your fleet might face. Best of all, it aids in preventative maintenance when your drivers receive alerts about when it's time to change an oil filter or check the tires.
Plus, with monitoring of how your drivers perform, you'll be able to do routing optimization to help achieve better gas mileage. If you have a delivery-based business, this is always essential to keep your vehicles in good working order.
Using a Maintenance Card
One excellent feature offered by many fleet management consultants is when they give your drivers maintenance cards. These allow your drivers to get maintenance done without forcing them to do out-of-pocket payments or reimbursements. You'll frequently see these called fuel cards as well.
Providing these persuades your drivers to go get maintenance done, especially issues needing checked or repaired on a regular schedule. They can simply present the card and get it paid for without any hassles.
You can add to this by having a maintenance consultation so your consultants can better understand how to maintain your vehicles if you already own your fleet.
Alerts to Service Shops Across the Country
Your home service business perhaps works out of state lines now, including serving customers in other parts of the country. Some of your drivers may have to drive hundreds of miles to visit someone's home for repair or delivery.
What would they do if they're driving in unfamiliar areas and need their trucks serviced? Your consultant team should offer immediate information about service centers nationwide. They can text your drivers where the nearest repair center is if something needs fixing immediately.
All repair centers should have ASE-certified representatives to give assurance of quality work and avoid repair gambles.
Here at Wilmar, Inc., we can set you up with a top-tier maintenance plan for your fleet vehicles. Whether you leased your vehicles through us (or someone else), our maintenance plans will help keep you profitable.
Contact us to learn more about our comprehensive fleet management services.
