Fleet Maintenance

Fleet Maintenance offers corporate, fleet, and maintenance managers effective strategies to enhance vehicle availability. This increased vehicle uptime is achieved through: - Best practices and procedures for maintaining and repairing all types of commercial vehicles - Enhancements and streamlining of shop operations - Insights into how existing and emerging technologies will influence maintenance tasks

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Survey: What pay structure do technicians prefer?

3 days ago | fleetmaintenance.com | Alex Keenan

Compensation is always a hot topic for technicians and shop management alike. But the flat rate vs. hourly discussion seems settled, right? Most commercial shops have chosen hourly and that's that. But because a shop's pay structure affects everything from labor rates and profits to a shop's ability to attract and retain quality techs, it's a topic that bears revisiting. We're doing just that in our July print issue, but we want to hear what our readers think on the topic.
Fullbay unveils AI tools, Mitchell 1 integration

4 days ago | fleetmaintenance.com | Alex Keenan

PHOENIX—According to Scott Gordon, VP of product at Fullbay, building a shop management platform for the heavy-duty repair sector is “like ordering pizza for thousands of my closest friends,” because Fullbay users range from the “lone wolf mobile repair customer” to large enterprises with several locations.
Stellantis picks Filosa as new CEO

1 week ago | fleetmaintenance.com | John Hitch

After the last tumultuous few years under Carlos Tavares, who resigned last December, Stellantis’ board has unanimously elected its COO of Americas, Antonio Filosa, as the new CEO, effective June 23. Filosa has 25 years of experience in the automotive industry, with his most recent role as COO of Americas, starting in December 2024. In that role he helped oversee major American brands Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler. Prior to that, he was CEO of Jeep.
Revisiting the ELD mandate and its impact on maintenance’s evolution

1 week ago | fleetmaintenance.com | John Hitch

Sometimes all it takes is the addition of one small variable to spur evolution. For humans, it’s theorized that harnessing fire catalyzed positive social and dietary changes in our prehistoric ancestors, leading to tight-knit tribes and bigger brains. Or maybe it was aliens, as ancient astronaut theorists believe. Whatever it was, we’re here and we do one thing—and do it better than most species: consume. And among humans, nobody does it better than Americans.
Bad habits techs need to break to run their own shop

1 week ago | fleetmaintenance.com | Alex Keenan

Technicians are used to fixing things, from the trucks they work on in the shop to their personal projects at home. But when those technicians become shop owners, that urge to ‘fix’ everything themselves can become a habit that they need to lose. If they don’t, they risk falling into "Daddy-Fix-It syndrome," according to former technician and shop Peter Cooper, who is now CEO of Ascend Consulting.
Electric pickups that are ready for fleets

1 week ago | fleetmaintenance.com | Jade Brasher

In this article, you'll learn about:Some of the main features offered by the Ford F-150 Lightning Pro, the Rivian R1T, and the Chevy Silverado EVThe real-world performance for each of these trucksSome of the maintenance needs for each vehicleThe Lightning, which shares certain design elements with the best-selling original F-150, came to market in 2022. Its zero-emission powertrain generates up to 580 hp, and 775 lb.-ft. of “nearly instant” torque, the OEM said. The Lightning tows up to 10,000 lbs.
Technician Find launches AI-powered Tech Ad Tuner for technician job ads

2 weeks ago | fleetmaintenance.com | Alex Keenan

When working to hire new techs for the shop, job ads are a shop’s first line of attack in making sure that techs know they have an open position and that they find the right person to fill it. But of course, this requires that a shop’s ads don’t get lost in the noise of hundreds of other posts on any given job board. “If techs don't read your ads, you're dead in the water,” said Chris Lawson, founder of Technician Find, a job-sourcing company for shops.
Explaining predictive and condition-based maintenance for fleets

2 weeks ago | fleetmaintenance.com | John Hitch

The introduction of telematics and mass sensorization on trucks over the past decade has enabled fleets to gather a lot of vehicle data. This information, in turn, has been used to power predictive maintenance (PdM). Historical fault code and repair data on particular makes and models are aggregated and fed into a data analytics platform.
Clawing for more efficiency: Latest tools to enhance shop throughput

2 weeks ago | fleetmaintenance.com | John Hitch

The world is changing faster than ever, but one constant that remains in the maintenance game is that efficiency equals success. At the shop floor level, the way to do this is making sure your technicians have the training and tools they need to maximize throughput in the bay and uptime in the fleets.
Gordon Brothers to sell off remaining Nikola assets

2 weeks ago | fleetmaintenance.com | John Hitch

At one time one of the most promising zero-emission truck startups, Nikola made history by being first to market with production-ready fuel-cell electric trucks at the end of 2023. But questionable leadership moves, mounting expenses, and less demand than anticipated for hydrogen-powered trucks led to a sharp downfall for the company founded by the recently pardoned Trevor Milton. With no moves left to stay in business, Nikola Corp.