Consider what the City of Newberry itself keeps on the road. Its electric utility serves more than 3,042 homes and businesses over 27.88 miles of overhead line and 12.74 miles of underground primary line. Its public works department, based at 120 NW 260th Street, handles streets, solid waste, mosquito control and cemeteries. That is a mixed fleet by any definition, run by a small town. If your own yard looks similar, a few units each doing a different job, RDI Fleet is built for you. It is RDI Power’s fleet program, and in Newberry it runs on scheduled yard visits by technicians from our Brooksville shop.
One plan for a mixed Newberry yard
Small fleets often skip formal maintenance plans because the trucks seem too different to schedule together. That is exactly when a plan helps most. A Newberry yard with a couple of 3/4-ton pickups, a dump truck, a service body and a trailer can sit on one RDI Fleet plan, with each unit on intervals that fit its own work. Light, medium and heavy duty units, trailers and buses are all covered. When most of the yard is Super Duty pickups, it helps that our Ford specialist spent more than 30 years at a Ford dealership before joining us.
What the first Newberry conversation covers
Before any schedule exists, we sit down, in person or on the phone, and go through four things:
- Every unit you run, with its year, engine, mileage or hours, and the job it does.
- The trouble you already know about, such as the truck that always overheats in August or the trailer with a lighting fault nobody has chased down.
- Your money, meaning what breakdowns cost you now and what a planned budget should look like.
- Your weeks, so visits land on the days units are parked, not the days they earn.
Engine hours versus miles for Newberry work trucks
A pickup that commutes to job sites wears by the mile. A truck that runs a PTO, idles for hours at a work zone or creeps along a route wears by the hour, and its odometer will badly understate what the engine has done. For units like that, we set preventive maintenance on engine hours, or a mix of hours and calendar time, and adjust as the inspections come back. The typical service covers oil and filters, fuel filters and the water separator, air filter and intake checks, belts, hoses and coolant, brakes, tires, steering and suspension, batteries and charging, aftertreatment, a code scan and a leak check, all recorded with photos. The full list of PM items for a Newberry unit is on our preventive maintenance page.
A Newberry fleet that grows with the town
Newberry went from 4,950 residents in 2010 to 7,342 in 2020. If your fleet grows the way the town has, units arrive a few at a time, sometimes used trucks bought in a hurry. An RDI Fleet plan absorbs those additions: each new unit gets an intake inspection, any open problems are flagged before it goes to work, and it joins the schedule with its own intervals. That intake is also when a straight answer matters most, because a used truck with a hidden cooling or injection problem is cheaper to catch on day one than on a shoulder.
Yard visits and shop days for Newberry units
Most of the plan happens where your trucks park. A technician brings diagnostic tools and service equipment to your Newberry yard, works through the units due that visit, and leaves a report for each one. Annual inspections can be booked on the same visit as PM. When a unit needs a lift or a teardown, it comes to Brooksville, and we schedule that around the days you can spare it. Fleet accounts also get priority service when something fails between visits.
Newberry records, warranty and after-hours coverage
Every unit’s file builds up over time: inspection photos, technician notes, what was repaired and what is coming due. For a small operator, that history replaces the notebook in the truck door and makes the next budget conversation shorter. Repairs on fleet accounts carry the RDI Fleet warranty of 2 years / 24,000 miles, and fleet customers have roadside assistance 24/7.
For a truck that breaks down before it is on a plan, see Newberry mobile diesel repair. Down the Florida Northern line, our Williston fleet maintenance page covers plans for Levy County yards, and the program is described in full under RDI Fleet maintenance. Call (352) 433-3800 and tell us what is parked in your Newberry yard.