Downtime is the real cost of fleet maintenance — the repair bill is usually the smaller number. Scheduled servicing that catches faults early keeps vehicles earning instead of waiting.
We work with businesses running anything from a couple of vans to a mixed fleet, and we will arrange servicing around your schedule rather than ours.
Fleet vehicles fail differently from private ones. They cover their mileage in short, loaded, stop-start cycles with several drivers and no single person who notices that the steering has started pulling. Brakes, tires and transmissions wear at a multiple of the private-car rate, and the small faults that a private owner reports in week one go unmentioned for a month. Scheduled servicing exists to catch those on a calendar rather than on a complaint, which is the difference between a van off the road for a booked morning and a van off the road on a Tuesday with a job on it.
Keeping a written record per vehicle is what makes the economics visible. It shows which vehicles are costing more than they earn, it supports the resale value of the ones that are not, and it gives you the maintenance history that a commercial insurer or a buyer will ask for. We keep the work consolidated per vehicle rather than per invoice, and we will work to your operating hours rather than expecting you to work to ours.
What the service covers
- Scheduled preventative maintenance
- Servicing arranged around your operating hours
- Mixed fleets, passenger and light commercial
- Consolidated record of work per vehicle
Signs you need fleet service
- Vehicles going off the road unexpectedly rather than on a booked date
- No single record of what has been done to which vehicle
- Servicing driven by driver complaints instead of by a schedule
- Tires and brakes being replaced far sooner than expected
- Several vehicles due at once because nothing is staggered
- Downtime costing more than the repairs do
What affects the cost
Every job is quoted before we start. These are the things that move the number — call the shop and describe the car and we will give you the figure for yours.
- How many vehicles, and how mixed the fleet is
- Whether servicing is scheduled and staggered or handled reactively
- Vehicle class: light commercial vans carry heavier loads and wear consumables faster than passenger cars
- How much of the work can be batched into planned visits rather than dealt with as breakdowns
Fleet Service questions
How small can a fleet be?
Two vehicles is a fleet as far as we are concerned. The reason to treat them as one is scheduling rather than volume — servicing planned around your operating hours instead of around a breakdown is worth having whether you run two vans or twenty.
Can you service vehicles outside our working hours?
We arrange servicing around your schedule rather than ours wherever we can. The shop's hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm; what is workable within that depends on your operation, so it is worth a conversation. Call the shop and we will work out what fits.
Do you handle mixed fleets?
Yes — passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, foreign and domestic, across the 26 makes we service. A mixed fleet is the normal case rather than the exception.
Do you keep records for each vehicle?
Yes. Work is recorded per vehicle rather than per invoice, so you have a maintenance history for each one. That matters for resale value, for insurers, and for seeing which vehicles in the fleet are costing more than they are worth.
How do we get set up?
Call the shop on (604) 727 4831 and describe the fleet — how many vehicles, what they are, and how they are used. We will work out a servicing schedule from there.