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As the owner of a water damage restoration business, you rely on an entire fleet of trustworthy vehicles to serve your customer efficiently day in, and day out. This means that taking care of your fleet of vehicles has to be a top priority. Without trucks that run well, you simply can’t get where you need to go in a timely fashion and you can’t carry the equipment that is so important to water damage restoration work.

For busy business owners and the employees who keep the day-to-day operations running, preventative maintenance can feel like just one more thing on a to-do list that is already too full. Before you push vehicle care to the back burner, listen to what we have to say about making regular maintenance simple for your water damage restoration business.

The Benefits of a Well Maintained Fleet

The vehicles you use to serve your customer are the backbone of your business. The trucks that transport your workers and their equipment aren’t optional, and neither is their maintenance and care.

There are obvious benefits to staying on top of vehicle maintenance.

How to Prioritize Routine Maintenance

If you simply hope that your employees will make maintaining your fleet vehicles a priority, you’re making a big mistake. Essential tasks become priorities when they are systemized and automated.

A system is a process that is repeatable and that produces the same result time and time again. A system begins by outlining what routine maintenance needs to happen on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Next, those tasks need to be outlined step-by-step so that any employee, regardless of how long they’ve been with the company, can follow the system to make sure each task is carried out completely.

The best systems are automatic. Meaning, a manager or owner isn’t responsible for checking in to make sure they’re being carried out. One of the simplest ways to automate a system is to make it a required part of each day. For instance, before your employees can leave for the night, they must turn in a check-off list detailing a complete inspection of the vehicle they drove that day.

What Do Your Fleet Vehicles Need Most?

When your vehicles are used to carry out your business’s essential tasks, they may need more than an oil change every 7,500 miles. The trucks used by your employees likely experience a lot of wear and tear, and maintaining them involves daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.

While what you require for vehicle maintenance may vary based on the type of vehicle and the function it serves, we suggest making sure the basics of your system include a few things. Daily tasks may cover basic cleaning like mirrors and vacuuming the floors, as well as topping off the gas tank. Weekly tasks could include verifying that the vehicle’s load doesn’t exceed recommended weight limits and checking tire pressure. On a monthly basis, your employees should be topping off the oil, checking filters, filing wiper fluid, and more.

At More Floods, we help water damage restoration businesses making daily operations simple. We accomplish this by connecting our network members with the operational resources they need to succeed, including fleet maintenance check-off lists and truck equipment checkoff lists. To learn more about joining the More Floods network, click here or call 1-866-667-3356.

 

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