Bushnell, a city of about 3,000 people, runs its own electric utility, along with its own water, wastewater and sanitation service, delivering electricity to more than 1,150 customers and sanitation service to more than 1,100. Services like those depend on equipment that has to be ready every morning, whatever the weather. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, is built for private operators who carry that same responsibility.
A city that runs its own utilities: fleet lessons from Bushnell
Utility-style work is some of the hardest duty a truck can see. Bucket trucks and service bodies idle for hours with a PTO running, cover few miles and still wear out oil, filters and hydraulic hoses. Refuse trucks stop and start hundreds of times a shift, which punishes brakes, air systems and aftertreatment. Contractors and service companies around Bushnell that run similar equipment face the same problems, and the answer is the same: maintenance planned around how each truck actually works.
School transportation is another local example of scheduled fleet work. Sumter District Schools is headquartered in Bushnell, and in 2026 its buses began rolling from a new $2 million garage in nearby Sumterville that serves nearly 4,000 students.
Getting a Bushnell fleet onto an RDI Fleet plan
Joining is a short process:
- We talk. How many units, which classes, where they park, what they do all day, what keeps breaking and how maintenance gets handled now.
- We inventory. A walk-around at your yard or ours records each unit’s VIN, engine, mileage or hours and condition. Anything with an open problem is flagged to be handled first.
- We set intervals. Miles for highway units, engine hours for trucks that idle or run a PTO, calendar dates for buses and trailers, all starting from the manufacturer’s schedule and adjusted for Florida heat.
- We schedule. You get a calendar of what is due and when, built around your slow days, with annual DOT inspections on the same schedule.
Yard work and shop trips 40 minutes from Bushnell
The shop is about 28 road miles from central Bushnell, so the plan keeps routine work at the yard. Mobile technicians handle inspections, oil and filter service, chassis lube and many repairs where the trucks park. Jobs that need a lift or a teardown come to Brooksville down I-75, and each shop trip picks up the unit’s PM, open repairs and inspection at the same time. Fleet accounts get priority in the shop schedule. For buses on the plan, our bus service and repair page covers the brakes, doors and electrical loads that passenger work demands.
Warranty and 24/7 roadside for Bushnell fleets
Every visit produces a digital vehicle inspection with photos and technician notes, filed by unit, so a year of service history is a click away when budgets get written. Repairs on the account carry the RDI Fleet warranty, 2 years or 24,000 miles. For a Bushnell truck that runs I-75, the 24/7 roadside assistance that comes with a fleet account matters: a breakdown between Exit 314 and the next interchange at night still goes to people who know the unit.
The whole program is described on our RDI Fleet maintenance page. A unit down at a Bushnell job site or yard can be handled through mobile diesel repair in Bushnell, and operators based farther north can read our Wildwood fleet maintenance page. Call (352) 433-3800 to start with a list of your units.