Citrus is the anchor in Lake Wales. Florida’s Natural Growers, a cooperative owned by more than 1,100 grower members, is headquartered here and runs its processing plant in the city; the county’s January 2026 employer list carries it at 600 employees, a previously reported count. Polk is Florida’s top citrus-producing county by the US Census of Agriculture. Freight planners have noticed the location too: in August 2016, the Polk Transportation Planning Organization endorsed a proposed freight logistics zone stretching from the Port of Tampa to Lake Wales. RDI Fleet, the fleet program from RDI Power, keeps trucks in that kind of economy on a maintenance schedule.
Citrus processing on a Lake Wales freight corridor
If your trucks serve groves or a processing plant, they need to be ready when the fruit is. On US 27 and SR 60 they share the road with heavy through freight; near downtown, FDOT’s 2025 count has trucks at 28% of all SR 60 traffic. When a Lake Wales truck hauling fruit, juice or supplies breaks down mid-run, the cost goes well past the repair bill. Planned maintenance moves that risk to a time you choose.
Grove and farm trucks on a Lake Wales plan
Farm trucks are hard to schedule by mileage. A grove truck may sit for weeks and then run all day, every day, for a stretch. For units like that, a Lake Wales plan uses engine hours and the calendar, so filters, fluids, brakes and tires are serviced before the busy period rather than during it. Lake Wales trailers get their own checks on brakes, lights, tires and bearings. Technicians can come to the farm or grove itself when there is a safe place to work, and our agriculture page covers the farm side of RDI’s work in more depth.
Fleets in the Lake Wales Commerce and Technology Park
The park on US 27 south of town offers shovel-ready lots of about 1.65 to 4.30 acres for light manufacturing and distribution, about 9 miles from the CSX intermodal facility, and the chamber lists Merlin Entertainments, TruGreen, Kegel and AT&T among its tenants. If your business operates from the park, whether you run a few service vans or a yard of trucks, technicians can do PM, inspections and many repairs in your lot on scheduled dates, so vehicles are not pulled off the road for a shop run.
Onboarding a Lake Wales fleet
Getting started takes a call and a walk-around. On the call, we cover what you run, which units do which work, where they are kept and what has been failing. At the first visit to your Lake Wales yard, grove or lot, a technician records each truck and trailer by VIN, engine and mileage or hours, checks condition and flags anything that should not wait. Intervals and inspection dates then go onto a calendar you can see, planned around the times your trucks are idle.
What each Lake Wales PM visit covers
Every scheduled stop includes the core service: oil and filters at the unit’s interval, fuel filters and the water separator, the air filter and intake, coolant and the cooling system’s belts and hoses. Brakes are measured and, on air-brake trucks, adjusted and checked for leaks. Tires, steering, suspension, lights and batteries are inspected, and a scan picks up stored and pending codes. For trucks that work dusty grove roads, the air filter and intake get extra attention.
Buses can share the account. Winter Haven Area Transit runs service from Lake Wales to Winter Haven and Frostproof, and if your Lake Wales operation runs a bus or shuttle of its own, it can go on the same plan as your trucks, with attention to brakes, doors, suspension and the electrical load of a passenger vehicle.
Lake Wales yard visits and the Brooksville bays
RDI Power has no shop or office in Lake Wales. Visits are booked ahead around the hours your trucks are parked, and each one covers as many due units as it can, with annual DOT inspections lined up on the same dates as PM. Work that needs a bay, such as a transmission removal or internal engine repair, goes to Brooksville when your schedule allows it, with the yard diagnosis traveling along.
Lake Wales fleet warranty, records and roadside
Each visit produces a photo inspection report for every unit, with notes in plain language, building into a service history you can budget from. Repairs on a Lake Wales fleet account carry a fleet warranty of 2 years / 24,000 miles. Fleet customers have priority service and 24/7 roadside assistance at (352) 433-3800 when a truck stops on SR 60 or US 27 after hours.
Every part of the program, from the first walk-around to ongoing reports, is described on RDI Fleet maintenance. For a truck that is down now, see Lake Wales mobile diesel repair, and for citrus and industrial yards farther south on US 27, fleet maintenance in Frostproof.