Next door to Pine Ridge, in Lecanto, Citrus County keeps the shop that maintains more than 700 county vehicles and pieces of equipment, along with its fuel site and its transit base at 1300 South Lecanto Highway. The county does that because a public fleet cannot run on luck. A private fleet based in Pine Ridge faces the same arithmetic on a smaller scale. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, brings planned maintenance to operators here: technicians drive out from our Brooksville shop on a set schedule, service the units at your yard and leave a record of everything they found.
Pine Ridge fleets: pickups, trailers and service bodies
Pine Ridge grew from 9,598 residents in 2010 to 11,042 in 2020. For a business that builds, repairs or services homes, a fleet is often less like a freight yard and more like a row of 3/4-ton and 1-ton diesel pickups, a few service bodies and the trailers they pull. If that describes your Pine Ridge operation, the mix has its own maintenance needs:
- Light duty diesels. Power Stroke, Duramax and Cummins engines on fuel filters, oil changes and glow plug checks that fit how hard they work. Newer diesels still use glow plugs, and a failing one shows up first as a rough cold start.
- Towing wear. Brakes, transmission fluid condition, hitch hardware and wheel bearings take the load of a trailer every day.
- Idle time. Trucks that run at a job site all day to power tools or lights add engine hours faster than miles.
- Trailers. Lights, wiring, brakes, tires and bearings, inspected on the same visit as the truck that pulls them.
Our Power Stroke diesel service page goes deeper on the Ford side, and the Ford specialist on our team spent more than 30 years at a Ford dealership.
How a Pine Ridge RDI Fleet plan is built
The first conversation is a list: every unit by year, make, engine and mileage or hours, plus what it does all day and what keeps breaking. From there we set intervals unit by unit, by miles, hours or calendar time, and put annual inspection due dates on the same calendar. Plenty of operators start without a written unit list; the first yard visit produces one. The plan fits your budget as well as your trucks. Findings at each visit are sorted into what needs attention now and what can wait, so repairs become planned spending instead of emergencies.
Yard visits in Pine Ridge around your crews
Technicians come to your yard on dates we agree on together. If crews leave early, the visit is set for when the trucks are parked; if one weekday is slower, that becomes PM day. One trip can take care of the whole row of trucks instead of a single unit. Work that needs a bay, such as major engine or transmission repairs, is booked into the Brooksville shop, and fleet accounts get priority there.
Annual inspections for heavier Pine Ridge trucks
Federal rules require an annual inspection for commercial vehicles used in interstate commerce with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 pounds or more, and the inspection report has to be kept for 14 months. Some heavier pickups are rated above that line; the rating is printed on the label in the driver’s door jamb. Drivers remain responsible for a pre-trip check every day. On an RDI Fleet plan, each qualifying unit’s DOT inspection is scheduled into its regular PM visit, so the truck is checked once for both and nobody has to remember a due date.
Reports, warranty and roadside for Pine Ridge units
Each visit produces a digital vehicle inspection with photos and technician notes. Over time those reports become a service history for every truck, which shows you where the money goes and when a unit is due for replacement. Fleet repairs carry a 2-year, 24,000-mile warranty, and fleet customers have 24/7 roadside assistance when a truck stops after hours.
For one-off on-site help, see Pine Ridge mobile diesel repair. Operators just to the south can read about fleet maintenance in Citrus Hills, and the whole program is explained on RDI Fleet maintenance. A phone call to (352) 433-3800 with your unit list is the first step.