Clermont reached 43,021 residents in 2020 after growing more than 250 percent in 20 years, and its economy now centers on retail trade, lodging and restaurants, with big-box stores following the rooftops. The City of Clermont keeps its own Fleet Maintenance department under Public Services to look after municipal vehicles. Private operators working in town, from delivery companies to contractors, need a maintenance plan of their own, and that is what RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, provides. Our technicians come out from Brooksville and do most of the routine work at your yard.
Box trucks and vans serving Clermont retail
If your vans and box trucks make retail deliveries along SR 50 and US 27, their wear comes from stops, not miles. Every stop is a brake application, often a shutdown and restart, and sometimes a long idle at a dock. Brake linings, starters and batteries wear faster than the odometer suggests, and short runs between stops keep the DPF from regenerating passively.
RDI Fleet sets those units on engine hours or calendar intervals, measures brake linings at every visit, load-tests batteries and reviews regeneration history during each scan. For diesel vans, our Sprinter van page covers what those chassis need. A unit that keeps failing to finish its regenerations gets flagged before it derates on SR 50 at the worst possible time.
Contractor fleets and the Wellness Way buildout
Lake County’s Wellness Way corridor, between I-4, the Turnpike and US 27, is planned for up to 15,500 housing units and more than 11 million square feet of non-residential space across 16,000 acres, and the City of Clermont posted 2026 road work alerts for Wellness Ridge. For a contractor whose dump trucks, water trucks and crew pickups are assigned to sites like that, PM has to fit around the work.
Site trucks go on engine-hour intervals, because a dump truck can idle and crawl all day without adding much mileage. Dust is the other enemy: air filters on site trucks load up faster, so RDI Fleet checks the filter restriction and the intake tract for leaks at each visit, along with the cooling package, which clogs with debris on dirt sites. PM can happen at the yard or, where the ground is firm, on the site itself.
Super Duty, Ram and GM pickups in Clermont crews
If your Clermont crews drive diesel pickups, those trucks get their own intervals inside an RDI Fleet plan. Fuel filters and water separators are changed on schedule, because contaminated fuel is hard on high-pressure injection systems; the 6.7 Power Stroke, for one, uses two fuel filters, and both matter. Transmission fluid is serviced on the schedule for severe duty when the truck tows, which on a Super Duty may mean a 10R140 or an older 5R110W. DEF system faults, glow plug codes and battery condition are checked at every scan. Power Stroke questions go to our Ford specialist, who spent more than 30 years at a Ford dealership.
Utility contractors and service trucks around Clermont
Duke Energy’s Clermont District Office serves Clermont, Groveland, Mascotte, Minneola and Montverde, and Lake Apopka Natural Gas has a Clermont office. If your trucks do contract work for utilities like these, or any service work that keeps a truck parked with a PTO running, plan them on engine hours and give the charging system and batteries a closer look at each visit.
Yard visits that keep Clermont units off SR 50
SR 50 carries about 52,000 vehicles a day on its busiest Clermont segment. Every shop trip through that traffic costs a driver’s time and a unit’s day, and sometimes a second vehicle to bring the driver back. RDI Fleet avoids most of those trips: technicians come to your yard on scheduled dates, service the units on the list, and flag anything that needs follow-up. Shop jobs, such as engine and transmission work, are planned into Brooksville with fleet priority, and we work out the timing with you.
When a fleet unit needs fuel system work, RDI is a Bosch dealer and works with Alliant Power fuel injection, so injector and pump repairs come with known parts sources.
Clermont fleet warranty, reports and roadside
The record builds itself. Every visit adds a digital inspection to each unit’s file: photos, technician notes and the work recommended next, ranked by urgency. Annual DOT inspections ride along with PM. A unit of 10,001 lb GVWR or more in interstate service needs one each year and must keep the report for 14 months, and booking it with the PM means one day out of service instead of two.
Under RDI Fleet, repair work is warrantied for 2 years or 24,000 miles, and a truck that quits on US 27 after closing time is still covered, since fleet roadside help runs day and night. Mobile diesel repair in Clermont describes what happens when a unit stops between visits. Crews that also work in Groveland can look at Groveland fleet maintenance, and onboarding is laid out on the RDI Fleet page. The first step is a call to (352) 433-3800.