Town ‘n’ Country is a lot of ground to cover: 24.1 square miles and 85,951 residents in 2020, bounded by Pinellas County, Tampa Bay, Tampa International Airport and Linebaugh Avenue. Across unincorporated Hillsborough, curbside collection is contracted to private companies, which is one reminder of how much work in a community this size depends on trucks. If your operation has grown along with it, your units may be a mix of classes spread across more than one lot. RDI Fleet, the program RDI Power runs for fleets, exists to bring order to exactly that. Technicians come out from our Brooksville shop and work through each yard on a schedule set around your operation.
Setting up an RDI Fleet plan in Town ‘n’ Country
Bringing a bigger operation onto a plan happens in four moves, and RDI carries most of the load:
- A phone call about the operation. Unit count, weight classes, yard locations, daily duty, the repairs that keep coming back and who handles maintenance today.
- A yard-by-yard survey. A technician visits every lot and records each unit’s VIN, engine, odometer or hour meter, condition and open faults. Anything already failing goes to the top of the list.
- A schedule per class. Manufacturer recommendations are the starting point, then intervals are adjusted for how each class really works in Town ‘n’ Country traffic, from pickups and box trucks to tractors, trailers and buses.
- A shared calendar. Yard visits and inspection due dates land on weekdays your trucks sit idle anyway.
A messy or half-finished unit list is fine. The survey turns it into a clean inventory.
Multi-yard Town ‘n’ Country plans
When units park in more than one place, the plan is organized by unit, not by address. Each yard gets visits on the calendar, and every truck’s inspection reports land in the same history no matter where the work was done. That makes it simple to compare units, spot the ones that cost the most to keep, and plan replacements.
DOT dates on the Town ‘n’ Country calendar
Federal rules require an annual inspection for commercial motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 pounds or more used in interstate commerce, and the inspection report has to be kept for 14 months. Drivers are still responsible for their own pre-trip inspections every day. An RDI Fleet plan puts each unit’s annual inspection on the same visit as its PM, so a truck is checked once for both, and anything that fails is photographed, written up and repaired once you approve it. Our DOT inspections page goes into what the inspection covers.
Salt air on Town ‘n’ Country’s bay side
The county’s Town ‘n’ Country Community Plan area runs south to Old Tampa Bay, and trucks that live near salt water corrode faster than trucks inland. Corrosion rarely strands a truck in one dramatic moment. It works slowly on the things that carry current and the things that stop the truck: battery terminals and ground straps, trailer plugs and lighting connectors, brake hardware, air line fittings and the frame itself.
A plan for a bay-side yard checks those items at every visit. Terminals and grounds get cleaned and protected, connectors get inspected and sealed where needed, and brake components are looked at for rust that can make parts seize. The photo reports make slow corrosion visible over time, so a frame rail or a brake chamber bracket is addressed before it becomes a failed inspection or a roadside call. Rinsing the undercarriage after a unit works near the water is a cheap habit worth adopting.
Service where Town ‘n’ Country units park
Most PM and many repairs happen at your yards: oil and filters, fuel filters, brakes, tires, belts and hoses, batteries, aftertreatment checks and inspections. Heavier jobs, such as transmission rebuilds and internal engine work, are scheduled into our Brooksville shop on a day you choose. Each yard visit leaves behind a photo-backed inspection report for every unit touched, split into urgent items and items that can wait for the next round.
If trailers are part of the mix, their brakes, wheel bearings, lamps and tires run on a separate interval; our trailer repair page covers that work.
Warranty, priority and roadside for Town ‘n’ Country accounts
Fleet repairs on Town ‘n’ Country accounts are warrantied for 24 months or 24,000 miles. Fleet units get priority when they break down, and accounts include roadside assistance 24/7, which matters when a truck stalls on the Veterans or Hillsborough Avenue outside shop hours.
Town ‘n’ Country plans are one form of the program described on RDI Fleet maintenance. For a truck that is down now, see Town ‘n’ Country mobile diesel repair, and for fleets that also park near the Pinellas line to the north, see Westchase fleet maintenance. A Town ‘n’ Country walk-around starts with a call to (352) 433-3800.