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Planned Maintenance: How to Cut Fleet Downtime and Control Costs
Every hour a truck sits off the road is an hour it is not earning, and breakdowns always seem to happen at the worst possible time. The operators who keep their trucks moving are rarely the lucky ones. They are the ones running proper planned maintenance.
The idea is straightforward. Instead of waiting for something to fail, you service to a schedule built around how each truck actually works, by kilometres or engine hours rather than the calendar. On every visit the common wear items are checked, small issues are caught while they are still small, and the truck goes back out with a clean bill of health.
The payoff is threefold. Downtime drops because failures are found in the workshop, not on the highway. Costs become predictable because you are spreading known work across the year instead of absorbing surprise repairs. And your COF inspections get easier because the truck is already in good order. Good reporting ties it together, giving you a clear record of what was done and what is coming up. If you run more than a couple of trucks, a maintenance programme pays for itself in avoided breakdowns alone.