Avon Park is the northern Highlands County stop on US 27/US 98, and that highway carries an unusual amount of freight. FDOT’s 2025 inventory counts about 11,375 trucks a day on the stretch between Valerie Boulevard and West College Drive, 32.5% of all vehicles, close to 1 in 3. RDI Power has no shop or staff in Avon Park. When a diesel stops here, we send a technician from the Brooksville shop, equipped with scan tools and stock parts, to fix the truck in place if the job can be done properly outside a bay.
Nearly 1 in 3 vehicles on US 27 at Avon Park is a truck
US 27/US 98 runs 23 miles north to Lake Wales and 10 miles south to Sebring. With a truck share that high, a breakdown on its shoulder means heavy rigs passing within feet, so getting the truck fully off the pavement and yourself well clear of it comes first. Then give us your direction and the nearest cross street or business. Inside town, cross streets such as Valerie Boulevard and West College Drive are easy references; outside it, a distance from the last intersection works.
SR 64 and SR 17 off Avon Park’s main highway
SR 64 runs 19 miles west from Avon Park to Zolfo Springs and carries about 1,440 trucks a day near town, around 12% of its traffic. SR 17 adds roughly 1,170 trucks a day, and on that road nearly 1 vehicle in 5 is a truck. On either road, make sure the truck is fully off the pavement before anything else. On SR 64, the Avon Estates Boulevard area is a useful marker; beyond it, describe the last crossroad you passed and how far back it was.
CR 64 east of Avon Park
East of town, CR 64 leads about ten miles out to the Avon Park Air Force Range, a 106,000-acre active installation, and the Avon Park Correctional Institution, which has operated on the range site since 1957. It is a long road with few landmarks. If your truck stops along it, a distance from US 27 and the side of the road you are on are the most useful things to tell us. Any facility with controlled access, the range and the prison among them, decides for itself who can come in, so we can only meet a truck there with that facility’s say-so.
Grove and ranch trucks around Avon Park
Highlands County has nearly 60,000 acres of agricultural land, and its economic development office counts it among the top producers of citrus and cattle. Mobile service covers groves and ranches as well as roads. A grove truck that will not start or a ranch truck with a charging fault can often be repaired right there, provided there is solid footing for a service truck beside it. After a downpour grove sand turns soft, so describe the access honestly, and tell us which gates to use and which to close.
Repairs finished on site in Avon Park
Before touching a wrench, the technician answers three questions: what the codes and live data say, what the tests confirm, and whether the repair can be done right where the truck sits. When the answer to the last one is yes, the work is usually one of these:
- Batteries, cable ends, grounds and starters on a truck that will not crank
- Alternators, belts and tensioners behind a charging warning
- Air lines, fittings, brake chambers and slack adjusters on a truck that will not build or hold air
- Fuel filters, water separators and air in the system after a filter change
- Coolant hoses and fittings that can be reached on site
- Sensors and wiring behind a derate, and DEF system faults
When it is done, you get a photo-documented inspection report with the technician’s notes.
Avon Park jobs for the Brooksville bays
If the third answer is no, because the engine is damaged internally, the transmission has failed or the job needs a lift, we say so and work out the move to our shop together. The diagnosis travels with the truck, so the shop orders parts before it arrives. Field and shop labor carry the same warranty, 3 years / 36,000 miles.
Reporting a Avon Park breakdown
Anyone with a stopped diesel can reach the shop at (352) 433-3800 during weekday hours, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM. After hours, 24/7 roadside assistance is a benefit of RDI Fleet accounts. Highlands County is a long way from Hernando County, and a realistic estimate beats a promise, so that is what you get when you call.
For trucks that work Highlands County every week, see fleet maintenance in Avon Park. Ten miles south, our Sebring mobile diesel repair page covers a city with no interstate at all, and everything the service covers is on the mobile diesel repair page.