Running a fleet from Floral City means running it from a rural place. The Census counts the whole community as rural, the farmland on CR-48 stretches east to the Withlacoochee River, and the nearest towns are 6 and 15 miles away on US-41. Even the school buses that serve Floral City Elementary run out of the district’s Inverness transportation office, 6 miles north. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, is built for that kind of distance: technicians who come to the yard, and a shop in Brooksville that is close enough for the jobs that need it.
Floral City yards and the 25-minute shop run
From the middle of Floral City, our shop at 1665 Donto Way is about 15 road miles and 25 minutes away on US-41. That is close enough to make a planned shop day practical, and far enough that nobody wants to make the trip for an oil change. So the plan splits the work:
- At your yard: scheduled PM, fluid and filter service, brake and tire checks, fault-code scans, digital inspections and many repairs, done by a mobile technician with diagnostic tools.
- In the Brooksville bays: engine and transmission work, alignments, anything that needs the truck on a lift, and repairs found during a yard visit that are too big to finish there.
When a unit does make the drive, it brings everything it has coming due, so 1 shop day covers what might otherwise take 3.
A plan for a mixed Floral City fleet
If your Floral City operation runs a mix, say diesel pickups, a dump truck or 2, a flatbed and some trailers, each of those units wears differently. An RDI Fleet plan is built around your operation, your budget, and the size and type of fleet you run, with intervals set by class.
Pickups usually follow mileage, shortened when they tow or idle a lot. Medium and heavy trucks that sit running at a job site get intervals by engine hours, because the odometer understates their wear. Trailers are inspected for brake wear, bearing play, lamp function and tire condition whenever the truck that tows them is in. Light, medium and heavy duty trucks, trailers and buses all fit inside one plan.
Annual DOT inspections go on the same calendar, staggered so every decal does not come due in the same month; our Floral City DOT inspections page covers the inspection itself.
Getting started begins with a yard walk. A technician walks your Floral City yard with you, records each unit’s VIN, engine, mileage or hours and condition, and flags anything that needs attention now. That inventory becomes the plan’s starting point, with intervals and inspection dates set from it.
Records for units working CR-48 and US-41
Every visit, yard or shop, produces a digital vehicle inspection: photos and technician notes on what was found, what was done and what is coming. Over a year those reports become a service history for each unit, sorted into what needs attention now and what can wait for the next planned visit. That is the record you hand to a driver, a manager or an auditor.
Fleet accounts also get priority in the shop schedule. Repairs on fleet units carry the RDI Fleet warranty, 24,000 miles or 2 years, and 24/7 roadside assistance means a breakdown on CR-480 at night still reaches people who have that truck’s file.
Our RDI Fleet maintenance page explains the full program, and operators with yards closer to the county seat can see how the plan works there on our Inverness fleet maintenance page. To start, call (352) 433-3800 with a rough list of your units: year, make, engine, and mileage or hours.