Winter Park keeps its power in-house. The city has run its own electric utility since June 1, 2005, and its utility department calls putting the whole system underground by 2030 a top priority. Work like that runs on trucks. If you run bucket trucks, digger trucks, crew trucks or equipment haulers on utility work around Winter Park, or any other mix of diesel work trucks here, RDI Fleet is how RDI Power keeps them on schedule.
PTO hours and idle time on Winter Park work trucks
The odometer on a work truck lies. A bucket truck can sit at one site for a full day with the engine turning a PTO, and its mileage barely moves. Set its oil changes by miles and it will run far past the point the manufacturer intended. RDI Fleet plans count engine hours, PTO time included, for units like these, and save mileage-based intervals for the trucks that actually cover ground, such as a unit that spends its day on I-4, where FDOT counts about 11,751 trucks a day near Winter Park.
The same thinking applies to the rest of the PM. Cooling systems carry extra load when a truck works stationary in Florida heat, so belts, hoses and coolant get checked every visit. Batteries and charging systems are tested, because a truck that runs lights and equipment at a site asks a lot of them. Our lifting page covers the crane, boom and bucket truck side of what we work on.
A paper trail for every Winter Park unit
What you get from each visit is a digital vehicle inspection, with a photo for each finding, the technician’s notes and a clear split between what needs attention now and what can wait. Over a season, those reports become a service history per unit. That record answers the questions that matter to a manager or an auditor, from when a truck last had its brakes measured to what was found at its last annual inspection, without anyone digging through a glovebox.
Winter Park yard visits planned from Brooksville
Winter Park units are serviced where they park, because a yard visit beats a long haul to our Brooksville shop. Visits are scheduled around your operation and grouped so a technician can work through several units in one trip:
- Send the unit list and any driver complaints ahead.
- Pick a window when the trucks would be parked anyway, such as the end of a shift or a day between jobs.
- Have a contact at the gate and a level spot to work.
When a unit needs a lift for engine internals or a transmission rebuild, we book it into our bays on a date that fits your work, not the other way around.
Annual inspections and the 10,001-pound line in Winter Park
Interstate commercial vehicles at or above 10,001 pounds GVWR need an annual inspection, and each report must be kept 14 months. On an RDI Fleet account, each annual goes on the calendar with that unit’s PM so the truck is out of service once. Drivers keep their daily pre-trip; the plan handles the rest. For bucket and digger trucks, the plan also keeps that date from colliding with a busy stretch of utility work, so a truck is never pulled off a crew for paperwork. The digital report from that visit goes straight into the unit’s file, ready for anyone who needs to see it.
Setting up a Winter Park fleet plan
Starting is simple. Tell us what you run and how it works, then a technician walks the yard and records each unit: VIN, engine, hours, miles, PTO use and condition. Units with open problems go first. Intervals are set from that list and the manufacturer’s schedules, annual inspection dates are lined up, and you get a calendar showing what is due and when. If your unit list has gaps, the walk-around fills them in.
Priority service when Winter Park work trucks break
A bucket truck that goes down in the middle of a job holds up a crew, not just a truck. Fleet accounts jump the queue when something breaks, and because each unit’s history is already on file, the technician starts with context instead of from zero. When the failure needs our Brooksville bays, we plan the timing around your work.
Coverage when a Winter Park unit goes down after hours
Fleet accounts have 24/7 roadside assistance when a unit stops at night or on a weekend. Any repair done under the account is covered by RDI Fleet’s 2-year / 24,000-mile warranty.
The full program is on our RDI Fleet maintenance page. For a truck that is down today, see mobile diesel repair in Winter Park, and operators to the northwest can compare fleet maintenance in Maitland. Call (352) 433-3800 to walk us through your units.