A fleet that works Cheval lives between two highways. The Suncoast Parkway runs along the western edge and Dale Mabry along the eastern one, and both are listed by FDOT among Hillsborough County’s Strategic Intermodal System highways. A maintenance plan for trucks based or working here has one clear goal: keep routine work out of those corridors and in your own yard. RDI Fleet, the fleet program of RDI Power, does that with technicians who come out from our Brooksville shop on a schedule built around your trucks.
The toll math behind yard visits near Cheval
The Suncoast and Veterans toll road is operated by Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, and multiaxle vehicles pay under an N minus 1 axle formula, so a three-axle truck is billed at a higher rate than a two-axle pickup. Every trip a heavy unit makes to a shop and back adds tolls, driver hours and a truck that is not working. Putting oil service, filter changes, brake checks and inspections on yard visits cuts most of those trips down to the ones that truly need a bay.
A plan for a built-out Cheval neighborhood
The Lutz Community Plan lists Cheval alongside Calusa Trace, Villa Rosa and Heritage Harbor as planned suburban developments west of Dale Mabry, and notes there is little room left for new projects of that type and scale. If your crews keep those finished neighborhoods running, your vans, pickups and box trucks probably spend the day making short hops between addresses and waiting at the curb in between.
That pattern changes the maintenance math:
- Short trips and idling. Engines that rarely reach full operating temperature for long, and that idle while crews work, need oil and filter intervals set on hours and severe-service schedules, not highway mileage.
- Brakes and tires. Constant stops and tight turns inside subdivisions wear brake linings and tire shoulders faster than open-road miles do, so we measure both at every visit.
- Aftertreatment. A diesel that never gets a long, hot run may struggle to clean its particulate filter on its own. We check soot load and regen history during PM so a clogged filter shows up on a report instead of a dashboard.
What a Cheval fleet visit looks like
A technician arrives on the scheduled day with a list of the units due. Each truck gets the service on its plan, plus a walk-around for anything new. Findings are photographed and written up in a digital vehicle inspection, sorted into what needs attention now and what can wait for the next visit. You approve the repairs; small ones are often done on the spot. Over time the reports build a service history for each unit that makes budgeting less of a guess.
Light duty diesels such as Power Stroke, Duramax and Cummins pickups and Sprinter vans fit on the same plan as medium duty box trucks and trailers, each class on its own intervals. When a unit needs heavy work, such as a transmission rebuild, we plan its trip to Brooksville with you so it is out of service as briefly as possible.
Annual inspections for Cheval trucks
Not every van needs one, but trucks with a GVWR of 10,001 pounds or more used in interstate commerce must pass a federal annual inspection, and the report has to be kept for 14 months. A Cheval plan tracks which of your units fall under that rule and books each inspection on the same yard visit as the truck’s PM, so it is never a separate trip and never a last-minute scramble when a decal is about to lapse. Anything that fails is photographed and written up, and repairs wait for your approval. Daily pre-trip checks stay with your drivers; the plan backs them up rather than replacing them. More on the inspection itself is on our DOT inspections page.
Cheval accounts and after-hours coverage
Repairs completed under an RDI Fleet account carry the fleet warranty, good for 24,000 miles or 2 years. Fleet accounts also get roadside help any hour of any day, which matters for a truck that stalls on the Parkway after a late job. Our Cheval mobile diesel repair page explains how those breakdown calls are handled.
To see the full program, go to RDI Fleet maintenance, or compare a plan for the larger community around Cheval on our Lutz fleet maintenance page. A short call to (352) 433-3800 about what you run is the first step.