No metro area in the country grew faster than Ocala’s in 2024 or 2025, by the Census Bureau’s ranking, and much of that growth moves on diesel. Ocala is the county seat of Marion County, the anchor of a distribution cluster beside I-75, home to a fire apparatus manufacturer and surrounded by horse country. Our fleet program, RDI Fleet, gives operators here a maintenance plan built around their units, preventive work done at their own yard or farm by technicians from our Brooksville shop, and a photo record of every truck. We list the companies below because they show the scale and variety of truck work in Ocala, not because any of them are RDI customers.
Ocala’s distribution and logistics cluster
A single business park holds 4 big distribution buildings. Per the Ocala CEP, FedEx Ground’s hub (about 2,000 jobs today), plus fulfillment or distribution centers for Amazon, Chewy and AutoZone, all sit in the Ocala/Marion County Commerce Park, each between roughly 440,000 and 617,000 square feet. The Ocala International Commerce Park holds a McLane distribution center. Dollar Tree and Family Dollar run their statewide Florida hub from Ocala, an automated warehouse with racking close to 148 feet tall. Newer arrivals keep coming: ID Logistics started up in the fall of 2025, and Averitt is building out more dock doors and freight capacity. CSX serves many of the area’s business parks directly, and the short line Florida Northern offers switching and transloading.
For a carrier or distribution fleet, that means 3 very different kinds of truck in one place: linehaul tractors that run I-75 for hundreds of miles, yard trucks that shuttle trailers between docks all day, and delivery vans and box trucks that run the city and the county.
Specialty vehicles, transit and public fleets in Ocala
Ocala builds fire trucks. E-ONE, the fire-rescue vehicle maker, appears among the city’s 10 largest employers in its 2022 financial report, and the company is expanding its emergency vehicle production floor in 2026. SunTran, Ocala’s fixed-route bus system, runs diesel buses from a base at 2100 NE 30th Avenue under its operator, RATP Dev. Marion County Public Schools, with about 7,000 employees, and the Marion County Board of Commissioners are also among the largest employers. Emergency apparatus, buses and municipal trucks all fit an RDI Fleet plan, with intervals built for vehicles that have to be ready on demand. See first responder vehicles for that side of our work.
Equine fleets in Ocala’s horse country
Ocala counts over 400 thoroughbred farms and training centers plus the World Equestrian Center, and the equine economy accounts for roughly 44,000 local jobs. Farm fleets look nothing like freight fleets: diesel pickups and tractors pulling horse trailers on irregular schedules, and farm trucks that idle and crawl around the property. For those units, an RDI Fleet plan runs on calendar time and engine hours, inspects every trailer’s brakes, lights, tires, bearings and floor along with the truck that pulls it, and puts the work on the farm’s slow days.
Setting intervals for Ocala carriers, yards and contractors
Each unit gets the interval that fits its work:
- Linehaul tractors. Mileage-based oil service, with tires, wheel ends, brakes and the cooling system at the center of each visit.
- Yard trucks. Engine hours, since a spotter can run a full shift and barely leave the lot. Brakes, hydraulics, the fifth wheel and air connections take the wear.
- Delivery vans and box trucks. Stop-and-go wear on brakes, starters and batteries, plus regeneration history from the engine computer.
- Construction trucks. With Marion County permitting thousands of new homes a year, dump trucks and contractor pickups run on hours and towing-adjusted mileage.
Units that need an annual federal DOT inspection get it during PM.
Yard and farm visits around Ocala
Technicians come out from Brooksville on a schedule set around your operation, at a terminal, a contractor’s yard or a farm, when the units are parked. Several are serviced in one visit. Major engine and transmission work and anything that needs a lift go to our Brooksville shop, where fleet accounts get priority and we plan the downtime with you.
Reports, warranty and roadside for Ocala fleet accounts
Every visit ends with a digital vehicle inspection for each unit: photos, notes and findings ranked by urgency. Over time those records become a full service history that makes budgeting and replacement decisions straightforward. Work done for fleet accounts is backed for 2 years or 24,000 miles, and a fleet truck that stops on I-75 or SR 200 at 2 in the morning still has someone to call.
For a single breakdown, see mobile diesel repair in Ocala. South of the city, our Liberty Triangle fleet maintenance page covers fleets around Exit 350, and RDI Fleet maintenance explains the whole program. Call (352) 433-3800 with your unit list.