How do you keep a Hudson fleet on schedule when the nearest RDI Power bay is 24 road miles away? Mostly by making that trip only when a job needs it. Our fleet program, RDI Fleet, sends mobile technicians to your Hudson yard for routine work and books shop time in Brooksville for the rest, all on a written plan you can see.
The Hudson diesel picture a fleet plan has to fit
Hudson is a waterfront community of 12,944 people, built around canals that were dug in the late 1950s and now front about 3,465 properties. Its working traffic runs on US-19, Fivay Road, Hudson Avenue and Little Road, and on the inland 34669 side, Pasco County Schools runs its Northwest Bus Compound on Cobra Way. A fleet based here might be a handful of service vans, a mix of pickups and box trucks, a few buses or a yard of heavy units. The plan starts from what you actually run and how each unit works, not from a template.
Hudson yard visits: work that never leaves your lot
A unit that drives to Brooksville for an oil change loses most of a morning to the trip. Mobile technicians bring that work to you:
- Oil, fuel filter and air filter service, with a look at what comes out
- Chassis lube, belts, hoses, coolant condition and battery testing
- Brake inspection, with lining measurements and, on air brake units, adjustment and leak checks
- Tire tread depth, pressure and wear pattern, which is often the first sign of an alignment problem
- A code scan, stored and pending, and many repairs on the spot
The yard needs firm, level ground and room to walk around each unit. A list of the trucks due and any driver complaints lets the technician plan the order of work.
Shop days in Brooksville for Hudson units
Some jobs belong in a bay: engine and transmission work, alignments and repairs that need a lift. When a Hudson unit does make the run up US-19 and across SR-50, we try to make it count. Open repairs, the next PM and the annual DOT inspection get lined up for the same visit, so the truck comes out of service once. The shop opens at 7:00 AM, Monday to Friday, so a unit that rolls out of Hudson early can be on a lift before most of the morning is gone. And when something breaks between visits, a fleet unit moves ahead in the line. For inspection planning, see DOT inspections in Hudson.
Salt air, canal-side yards and Hudson fleet corrosion
A yard a few blocks from salt water ages equipment differently from one inland. Electrical connectors, ground straps, brake lines, trailer plugs and frame hardware corrode faster, and corrosion is behind many intermittent electrical faults. A Hudson plan can put those items on the inspection list at every visit, with photos, so a green connector is a planned repair instead of a no-start on a Monday morning. The complete set of service items is on our preventive maintenance page.
Fleet warranty, roadside and records for Hudson accounts
Whether the work happened on your Hudson lot or on Donto Way, each visit produces a photo report with the technician’s written findings. Stack 12 months of those together and you have a maintenance file for every truck, which turns the question of keeping or replacing a unit into something you can look up. Fleet repairs are warrantied for 2 years / 24,000 miles, and a unit that quits on US-19 at 2:00 AM or on a Sunday still reaches us through 24/7 fleet roadside.
Pickups, vans, box trucks, tractors, trailers and buses can share 1 plan. The full program is on our RDI Fleet maintenance page, and operators running out of the SR-52 side can compare the Bayonet Point fleet maintenance page. The first step is a phone call to (352) 433-3800 and a rough list of what you run.