The City of Dunedin’s Public Works fleet totals 302 pieces of equipment, and the city keeps a 9-person Fleet Services division at 1090 Virginia Street to maintain it. Next door at 1070 Virginia Street, the Solid Waste Division runs its own automated side-arm trucks, a rear-load truck and a claw-grapple truck, and the city plans to add 13 new solid waste vehicles between 2026 and 2031. That is what in-house fleet maintenance looks like when an operation is big enough to staff it. A Dunedin contractor or delivery business with 6 or 12 trucks needs the same discipline without the payroll. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, provides it, with technicians who come to your yard from our Brooksville shop.
What a fleet division does, and how RDI Fleet covers it in Dunedin
Strip a municipal fleet shop down to its jobs and there are 5 of them. An RDI Fleet plan handles each one:
- Scheduling. Someone has to know what every unit is due for and when. We build that calendar from your unit list and keep it.
- Preventive maintenance. Fluids, filters, lube, brakes, tires, belts, hoses, lights and a code scan, on intervals set by miles, engine hours or calendar time for each truck.
- Inspections. Annual DOT inspections booked alongside PM, so each truck is out of service once.
- Diagnosis and repair. Root-cause diagnosis with dealer-level software and repairs done right the first time, at your yard where the job allows and in our Brooksville bays where it needs a lift.
- Records. A digital inspection report for each unit on every visit, with photos and technician notes.
The difference is that you do not pay for a building, a parts room or a staff to get it. You pay for the work your trucks need. The PM items a Dunedin yard visit works through are listed on our preventive maintenance page.
Planning replacements the way Dunedin plans its garbage trucks
The city’s solid waste plan lays out new vehicles years ahead, 13 of them between 2026 and 2031. That kind of planning depends on knowing the condition of every unit you already own. Without that record, a truck tends to get replaced the day it fails expensively instead of the year it stopped making sense.
RDI Fleet reports fix that. Each visit adds photos and notes to a unit’s history: brake wear, leaks, aftertreatment trouble, repairs made and repairs recommended. After 1 or 2 years you can see which trucks are holding steady and which ones are costing more every quarter. That is the evidence you need to put a replacement on next year’s budget instead of next week’s emergency.
Yard visits along Dunedin’s Alt 19 and SR 580 routes
Dunedin’s road network is Alt 19, the city’s main highway, plus Main Street and County Road 1 for local trips and SR 580, where about 12.1% of traffic near the city is trucks by FDOT’s 2025 count. A yard visit keeps those units on their routes. The technician works through the unit list where the trucks park, and several trucks can be handled in a single visit instead of being driven out one at a time.
Timing follows your calendar. If February and March are your busy months, when spring training at TD Ballpark brings the crowds, we book PM and inspections ahead of them so nothing comes due mid-season. A Dunedin plan can hold light, medium and heavy duty trucks along with trailers and buses.
When a Dunedin unit breaks between scheduled visits
A city fleet shop has one more advantage: when a truck goes down, the people fixing it already know it. RDI Fleet works the same way. Your call goes to a team that has the unit’s inspection history on file, so the technician heading to your Dunedin yard knows its engine, its last service and the problems already flagged. The repair starts with a real diagnosis, the findings come to you with photos for approval, and the work happens at the yard when it can or in the Brooksville bays when it needs a lift. The repair then goes into the same record as every PM visit, so the history stays complete.
Warranty, priority and roadside for Dunedin units
Dunedin fleet accounts jump the queue when something breaks between visits. Repairs done under RDI Fleet carry a 2-year / 24,000-mile warranty, and 24/7 roadside assistance covers fleet customers after hours, so a unit that stalls on Alt 19 on a Sunday is still covered.
Dunedin operators can read the complete program on our RDI Fleet maintenance page. Yards up the coast can compare fleet maintenance in Palm Harbor, and for on-site breakdown help read about mobile diesel repair in Dunedin. Call (352) 433-3800 and walk us through the trucks in your Dunedin yard.