Fleet maintenance for a Forest City operation does not have to mean losing a truck for a day every time it comes due. Through RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, technicians come from our Brooksville shop to your yard on a schedule built around your units, and the work that genuinely needs a bay is booked into the shop ahead of time instead of after a breakdown.
How Seminole County divides its own fleet work
Seminole County’s Fleet Services program is a useful model. It runs three service locations and county fuel stations that dispense nearly a million gallons of fuel a year, and it hires outside vendors for the work it cannot do in house. Large or small, most fleets end up with some version of that split: certain jobs stay with your own people, and others go to someone with the tools and the training for them.
RDI Fleet plans are built around the operation, the budget and the size of the fleet, so the first question for a Forest City operator is where that line sits for you. Some owners want everything planned and handled. Others have a driver who tops off fluids and want us for preventive maintenance, diagnostics, inspections and repairs. Either way, the plan is written to match.
Matching Forest City PM intervals to SR 434, SR 436 and SR 414 traffic
Forest City sits between three busy roads with very different duty cycles. SR 436 carries about 57,500 vehicles a day near the community, with turning traffic and signals the whole way. SR 434 is lighter but just as stop-and-go. The SR 414 expressway moves at highway speed. A truck that spends its day on the arterials wears brakes and builds idle hours, while a truck that runs the expressway piles up miles with less wear per mile.
We set intervals by miles, engine hours or calendar, whichever reflects the work, starting from the manufacturer’s schedule and adjusting for Florida heat and what the inspections show. Pickups and vans usually follow mileage. Vocational trucks that idle or run a PTO are better tracked on hours.
Yard visits in Forest City, shop time in Brooksville
Routine work happens in your yard: oil and filters, fuel filters and water separator service, coolant and belts, brake lining measurements and air-system checks, tire tread and pressure, lights, batteries and a code scan. Visits are scheduled around the days your trucks are not needed. When a unit needs an engine repair, a transmission job or a lift, we book it into the Brooksville shop with you and line up any maintenance that is due for the same visit.
Pickups, box trucks and tractors under one Forest City plan
Plenty of small fleets run a mix: a Super Duty or a Ram 2500 for the owner, a couple of box trucks, maybe a tractor and a trailer. RDI works on all of it, from Power Stroke, Cummins and Duramax pickups to medium-duty trucks and Class 8 tractors with Cummins, Detroit, Caterpillar or Volvo engines. Each gets diagnosed with the right tools: Ford IDS on Ford trucks, WiTECH on Ram, heavy-duty software on the big units. That matters for a plan, because a fault turned up during a PM visit gets a real diagnosis on the spot instead of a guess and a second trip.
The reports a Forest City fleet manager receives
Every visit, in the yard or the shop, ends with a digital vehicle inspection: photos of each finding and the technician’s notes. Over a year that becomes a service history for every unit, with urgent items flagged and the rest planned for later. It also gives you a clean record when a unit’s annual DOT inspection comes up. Federal rules call for it every year on interstate trucks rated at 10,001 pounds GVWR or more, and on an RDI Fleet plan it is booked alongside the unit’s PM.
Forest City accounts: warranty, priority and 24/7 roadside
Repairs done for fleet accounts carry a 2-year / 24,000-mile warranty. Fleet accounts move up the schedule when something breaks, and they have 24/7 roadside assistance for the night a truck stops on SR 436 after the shop has closed.
Read the full RDI Fleet maintenance program, or see fleet maintenance in Wekiwa Springs for the community just north. If a truck is down now, mobile diesel repair in Forest City covers the breakdown side. To start a plan, call (352) 433-3800 with a list of your units.