Frostproof, a city of 2,877, has both a steel mill and 2 citrus companies with deep local roots. Nucor Steel Florida’s rebar micro-mill covers about 440 acres in Frostproof and employs 250. The Latt Maxcy Corporation and Ben Hill Griffin, Inc. are both based here and both belong to the Florida’s Natural cooperative; Ben Hill Griffin, Inc. is a family-owned company with citrus and other agricultural interests, and Ben Hill Griffin Jr. got his start in citrus here. Polk County as a whole is Florida’s top citrus producer, with 600,000 acres in agriculture. For trucks working in that mix, RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, replaces guesswork with a maintenance plan.
Steel and citrus: Frostproof’s working base
US 27 runs just west of town as a 4-lane divided highway, north to Lake Wales and south to Sebring, and US 98 heads west from it toward Fort Meade and Bartow. Trucks based in Frostproof can be on either road within minutes. Whether your yard runs grove trucks and trailers, service pickups for an industrial site or tractors on regional freight, RDI Fleet covers light, medium and heavy duty diesels, trailers and buses on a single account, with each unit’s maintenance set by how it works.
Batching yard visits for Frostproof fleets
Frostproof sits toward the far edge of the area our technicians cover from Brooksville, so every visit is planned to do as much as possible. We look ahead at each unit’s PM interval, annual DOT inspection date and open findings, then group them so a technician’s day in Frostproof covers everything that is due. A pickup’s oil service, a tractor’s brake measurement and a trailer’s annual inspection can all happen on the same visit.
Because each Frostproof trip is planned ahead, the technician arrives with the filters, fluids and common parts each due unit is likely to need, based on its records and the last inspection. That preparation is what lets a single visit cover a whole yard instead of turning into 2 trips. If a driver reports a new problem between visits, tell us before the next scheduled date, and the technician will plan for it as well.
For the jobs a yard cannot handle, such as an engine coming apart or a transmission coming out, we book the trip to the Brooksville bays together, so the truck goes once and comes back repaired.
Grove trucks and trailers on a Frostproof plan
Farm equipment rarely works on an even schedule. A grove truck may sit through a slow stretch and then run hard every day for weeks. Mileage alone misses that pattern, so a Frostproof plan tracks engine hours and the calendar as well, and puts the heaviest service ahead of your busy season rather than in the middle of it. Frostproof trailers get brakes, lights, tires, wiring and bearings checked on their own schedule. Our agriculture page describes how RDI works with farm operations like those around Frostproof.
Getting a Frostproof fleet started
Joining RDI Fleet takes a conversation and a visit. On the call, we ask what you run, how each unit earns its keep, where the trucks park and what has been breaking. On the first visit to your Frostproof yard, a technician inventories every truck and trailer, notes condition, and flags units that need attention right away. From there, intervals and inspection dates go on a shared calendar, and each later visit is documented with photos.
Pickups and service trucks around Frostproof industry
Not every unit in a Frostproof fleet is heavy. If your crew pickups and service trucks are 3/4-ton or 1-ton diesels, such as a Power Stroke, Duramax or Cummins, those engines have their own habits. Newer Power Stroke and Duramax engines do use glow plugs, and a failed one shows up as hard starts and rough running on cool mornings. Injector problems show up as rough idle, smoke or a misfire code, and RDI is a Bosch dealer and works with Alliant Power fuel injection. Our Ford specialist spent more than 30 years at a Ford dealership, and that depth shows when a Super Duty fault refuses to follow the textbook.
Frostproof records, warranty and 24/7 fleet roadside
Each visit leaves a photo inspection report for every unit, with notes a manager can act on, and over time those reports become a service history for budgeting and replacement decisions. Fleet repairs on Frostproof units carry RDI Fleet’s 2-year / 24,000-mile warranty. Fleet accounts get priority when a unit breaks unexpectedly, and roadside help runs 24/7 at (352) 433-3800 for a truck that stops on US 27 or US 98 after hours.
The full program behind every Frostproof plan is outlined on RDI Fleet maintenance. For a breakdown today, see Frostproof mobile diesel repair, and for yards north on US 27, fleet maintenance in Lake Wales.