Citrus County keeps its own fleet shop in Lecanto, and it is a useful picture of what a well-run fleet needs. Most private operators do not have a fuel site, a welding bay and a tire shop behind the office. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, is how a business in Lecanto gets that kind of structure without building it: scheduled maintenance, 1 set of records, priority when something breaks and a team that knows each unit.
What Lecanto’s county fleet yard shows a private operator
At 1300 S. Lecanto Highway, the county’s Fleet Management Division maintains more than 700 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The same site runs the county fuel site, a welding and fabrication shop, tire repair and CDL testing for county employees. Citrus County Transit operates from that address as well, with 14 demand-response and 5 fixed-route vehicles in maximum service, and the school district’s Lecanto transportation office sends buses to Lecanto Primary, Middle and High, CREST, PACE and several schools beyond.
For a private operator, the lesson is in how fleets like those are organized: every unit tracked, service done on a schedule, and problems found in the yard instead of on the road. A contractor’s dump trucks, a service company’s vans or a hauler’s tractors benefit from the same discipline, and that is what an RDI Fleet plan provides.
Yard visits versus the 40-minute run from Lecanto
The shop is about 23 road miles from central Lecanto, roughly 40 minutes each way by CR-491, US-98 and Cobb Road. A unit that makes that round trip for an oil change has lost most of a morning before a wrench turns. So a Lecanto plan leans on the yard:
- At the yard: mobile technicians handle inspections, oil and filter service, chassis lube and many repairs where the trucks park.
- In the shop: engine, transmission and lift work comes to Brooksville, and each visit is loaded up with the unit’s PM, any open repairs and its annual inspection; see DOT inspections in Lecanto.
- When it breaks: fleet accounts move to the front of the shop schedule.
Setting intervals around Lecanto duty cycles
A single mileage number does not fit every truck. A dump truck that idles at a pit or a bucket truck that runs a PTO all day can rack up engine hours with almost no odometer movement, so its oil, filters and inspections follow the hour meter. A tractor that runs highway miles fits a mileage plan. Buses do best on a calendar that lands work before the school year starts, and trailers get brakes, bearings, lights and tires checked on their own schedule, timed to the tractor that pulls them.
We start from the manufacturer’s schedule, adjust for Florida heat and the job, and revise as the inspection history shows what each truck actually needs. Our fleet diesel engine maintenance article lists the checks that belong in every PM stop, whether it happens in Lecanto or in our bays.
Reports, warranty and roadside for Lecanto fleet accounts
Every visit ends in a digital vehicle inspection with photos and the technician’s notes, sorted into what needs attention now and what can wait for the next scheduled stop. A year of those reports is a service history you can hand to an accountant or a buyer. Repairs done under the account carry the RDI Fleet warranty of 2 years or 24,000 miles, and a fleet truck that stops on SR-44 after the shop closes is still covered by 24/7 roadside assistance.
Everything the program includes, from onboarding to reporting, is laid out on our RDI Fleet maintenance page. Operators who run west toward the Gulf can read our Crystal River fleet maintenance page. Call (352) 433-3800 with a rough list of your units, and we will sketch what a Lecanto plan looks like.