A fleet that grows from 2 trucks to 8 usually outgrows the way it was maintained. What worked when the owner knew every truck by sound stops working when there are more vehicles than anyone can keep in their head. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet maintenance program, replaces memory with a plan that has room to expand. For fleets based in Laurel, the work happens at your yard; RDI has no shop here, and our technicians come down from Brooksville on dates set in advance.
Fleets on the Laurel Road corridor
Laurel grew by about half in a decade, rising from 8,171 residents in 2010 to 12,186 in 2020. Its spine is Laurel Road, County Road 762, which connects US 41 with I-75 in north Venice. FDOT’s 2025 counts put about 12,376 trucks a day on I-75 near Laurel and about 4,888 on US 41 Business where it reaches Laurel Road.
A Laurel fleet might mix nearly anything: service vans, contractor pickups, box trucks, a medium duty dump truck, trailers. RDI Fleet covers every class, light, medium and heavy duty, plus trailers and buses, on a single plan.
Onboarding a Laurel fleet onto RDI Fleet
Starting is a short process. We begin with a call about what you run, how the vehicles are used, where they park and what has been breaking. A technician then visits your Laurel yard and builds the unit list: VIN, engine, mileage or engine hours, current condition and any open problems, with urgent items flagged first. From that list we set intervals for each vehicle, starting from the manufacturer’s schedule and adjusting for how hard it works, and line up any annual inspection dates. You end up with a shared calendar of what is due and when, planned around the days you can spare each unit. Pull together whatever paperwork you already have, from oil change stickers to dealer invoices, before the walk-around. Partial records are still useful, and anything missing simply becomes part of the baseline we document on that first Laurel visit.
Adding units as a Laurel fleet grows
A plan built for growth has to handle new arrivals cleanly. When you add a vehicle, new or used, it gets an intake inspection before it joins the rotation:
- Condition baseline. Brakes, tires, fluids, leaks, belts and hoses, documented with photos.
- Diagnostics. A scan for stored and pending codes and a look at aftertreatment health.
- History. Whatever service records came with it, so we know what has and has not been done.
- Intervals. A PM schedule matched to the job the new unit will do, not just copied from the truck beside it.
A used truck in particular should not inherit someone else’s problems unnoticed. The intake inspection is where a seeping injector cup, a worn ball joint or an overdue transmission service shows up before it becomes your breakdown.
A PM day at a Laurel yard
On a scheduled visit, the technician works through each unit due for service: oil and filters, fuel filters and the water separator, air filter, belts, hoses and coolant, brake measurements and adjustment, tires, steering and suspension, chassis lube, lights, batteries and charging, aftertreatment checks and a code scan. Our preventive maintenance page describes those items in detail. Several vehicles can be serviced in one stop, and when a unit fails between visits, a fleet account moves it to the front of the line. Engine and transmission jobs that need a lift go to the Brooksville shop on a date we settle together.
Laurel inspections, warranty and roadside
Units with a GVWR of 10,001 pounds or more that run interstate need a federal annual inspection, with the report kept for 14 months; on a Laurel plan, those are booked with PM. Every visit leaves a photo-documented report per unit, building a history you can use to budget and to decide when a truck has earned its replacement. Fleet repairs carry RDI Fleet’s 2-year / 24,000-mile warranty, and when a Laurel fleet vehicle stops after hours, roadside assistance for fleet accounts answers at (352) 433-3800 day or night.
The full program is laid out on RDI Fleet maintenance. Fleets based in the city to the south have their own page for fleet maintenance in Venice, and a Laurel vehicle that has already stopped is a job for mobile diesel repair in Laurel.