Leesburg counts 2,598 companies inside its 50.59 square miles, runs its own electric, gas, water, reuse and wastewater utilities for more than 50,000 customers, and has an airport with manufacturing tenants on its edge. If your company’s work in that economy depends on diesel trucks or vans, RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet maintenance program, can put them on a plan. Our technicians come out from the Brooksville shop, and much of the routine work happens at your yard, so trucks do not leave Leesburg just to get their oil changed.
What Leesburg’s economy puts on the road
- Utilities. Leesburg Electric, in service since 1924, reaches over 27,500 customers from 5 substations, and the city’s gas system runs 276 miles of pipe. The city scheduled a groundbreaking for a new Gas Operations Building in 2026.
- The airport. Leesburg International handles more than 100,000 takeoffs and landings a year, sells Jet A and 100LL, and hosts manufacturers such as Wipaire, which designs and builds aircraft floats, and Skybolt Aeromotive, which makes aerospace fasteners. Brainerd Helicopters flies aerial firefighting and lifting from the field.
- Healthcare. UF Health Leesburg Hospital is on Lake County’s list of employers with more than 1,000 staff.
- Transit. LakeXpress runs circulator routes in the city.
The point of the list is the mix, not any one name on it. If your fleet is a service fleet, with units that cover short distances and spend the day parked at the work, its maintenance should be planned that way.
Hours, not miles, for Leesburg service trucks
A bucket truck or a service body that runs a PTO at a job site can put on engine hours all day while the odometer barely moves. Set its oil and filter intervals by mileage alone and wear builds up quietly. RDI Fleet sets intervals by miles, engine hours or calendar time, whichever describes the unit’s work, starting from the manufacturer’s schedule.
For units that idle a lot, we track DPF soot loading and how often the truck regenerates, test batteries and look closely at the cooling system, because those are where idle time shows up first. Highway units that run the Turnpike get mileage intervals, with brake linings measured and tires checked for tread depth and wear pattern each visit. Light duty pickups follow the manufacturer’s schedule or oil life monitor, shortened when they tow or idle.
Yard days that work around US 27 traffic
FDOT counts about 51,000 vehicles a day on US 27 near Leesburg. Every shop drop-off on that road means a driver off the route and a unit out for the day, and often a second vehicle to bring the driver back. Yard visits remove most of those trips. A technician arrives on a date set ahead, works through the units on the list, and leaves the trucks ready for the next shift, or works around the ones that are out.
Findings that are not urgent are written up as planned work, so you can schedule them. Fleet accounts also get priority service when something unplanned happens, and jobs that need a lift, such as engine or transmission work, are booked into the Brooksville shop with that priority.
Annual inspections on a Leesburg fleet calendar
Commercial vehicles of 10,001 lb GVWR or more in interstate service need an annual inspection, and the report must be kept for 14 months. Between inspections, drivers are responsible for a pre-trip check. RDI Fleet lines each unit’s annual inspection up with its PM visit, so the truck is serviced and inspected on the same day, and anything that fails is photographed and written up for your approval before it is repaired. The checklist itself is laid out on our DOT inspections page, along with the paperwork a Leesburg unit should carry.
What a Leesburg fleet manager gets after each visit
Each visit produces a digital inspection per unit, with photos and the technician’s notes, and those inspections build into a history for every truck. When a unit’s repair bills start climbing, that history turns the repair-or-replace decision into a question of record rather than memory.
Getting there starts with a unit list built together: year, make, engine, mileage or hours, and what each truck does all day. If you do not have a clean list, the first yard visit builds it, and units with open problems are flagged before anything else goes on the calendar. From that inventory we set intervals by class and line up the annual inspection dates.
Fleet repairs carry a 2-year / 24,000-mile warranty, and fleet accounts have 24/7 roadside assistance for the night a truck quits on US 441 or the Turnpike, answered by people who already have that unit’s records.
To see how a breakdown between visits is handled, read mobile diesel repair in Leesburg. Operators who also work around the county seat can compare fleet maintenance in Tavares, and the RDI Fleet program page covers onboarding step by step. Bring a list of your units when you call (352) 433-3800.