Gilchrist County added more than 2,600 residents between 2020 and 2025, growing from 17,864 to an estimated 20,488, and its economic development office on SE 1st Street in Trenton is openly recruiting agribusiness, light industrial manufacturing, and logistics and distribution. Much of the county is still farmland and timberland. RDI Fleet, RDI Power’s fleet program, is built for operators whose trucks work that mix. We have no office in Trenton. Our technicians drive out from Brooksville to your yard or farm, on visits scheduled around your work.
Farm, timber and delivery fleets in Trenton
The industries the county is chasing each bring their own kind of truck. Agribusiness means farm trucks, trailers and the pickups that run between fields. Timber means heavy loads on rough ground. Logistics and distribution mean box trucks and tractors keeping a schedule on US 129, SR 26 and SR 47. If your operation sits in any of those lanes, or in more than one, the question is the same: how do you keep every unit working without a mechanic on the payroll? That is the gap a plan is meant to fill.
Farm roads and highway miles on a Trenton plan
A truck that spends its mornings on a sandy farm road and its afternoons on SR 26 wears in two ways at once. The farm side loads up air filters with dust, works the suspension and tires hard, and shakes wiring and lights loose. The highway side piles on miles. A sound plan accounts for both. We set intervals by miles, engine hours or calendar, whichever reflects how each unit works, and add checks that match its conditions: air filter restriction and intake leaks, spring and bushing wear, tire cuts and sidewall damage, and the condition of harnesses and connectors exposed under the chassis.
Timing Trenton visits around the busy months
Most farm and timber operations have stretches when no truck can be spared. Tell us when yours begin and end, and the plan front-loads preventive maintenance and annual inspections into the weeks before, so units go into the busy months freshly serviced rather than overdue. The same logic works in reverse: deferred repairs that can wait get scheduled for the slow weeks after.
A Trenton plan sized for a few units
Plans are written around fleet size as well as fleet type, so 4 trucks and 2 trailers get a plan built for 4 trucks and 2 trailers. The first step is a conversation about what you run, then a walk-around at your yard or farm to record each unit’s VIN, engine, odometer or hour reading and condition. Units with open problems get flagged first. From that inventory we set intervals, line up annual inspection dates for trucks and trailers that need them, and give you a calendar. Light, medium and heavy duty trucks, trailers and buses all qualify.
Visits to a Trenton yard or farm
Most of the work happens where your trucks are. A technician brings diagnostic tools and service equipment, works through every unit due that visit, and leaves a report on each. Doing PM on site means nobody spends a day driving a truck to a shop and back. Major engine or transmission repair, or any work requiring a lift, happens in our Brooksville bays, timed for when the truck can be spared. When something breaks between visits, fleet accounts get priority on our schedule. Our agriculture page describes the farm side of that work in more detail.
Trenton records, warranty and after-hours help
Each visit produces a digital vehicle inspection for every unit serviced: photos of what the technician found and notes on what was done and what comes next. Kept together, those reports become a history for each truck, which makes budgeting simpler and the replace-or-repair decision far less of a guess. On a Trenton fleet account, repairs are warrantied for 24,000 miles or 2 years. And because breakdowns do not wait for business hours, fleet customers get roadside help at any hour, including a truck stopped on US 129 on a Sunday night.
When a single unit needs help before it is on a plan, see Trenton mobile diesel repair. Operators whose routes run east on SR 26 can also look at fleet maintenance in Gainesville, and the program as a whole is under RDI Fleet maintenance. Start with a call to (352) 433-3800 and a list of what your Trenton operation runs.