Services and Tasks: the hierarchy that organizes fleet maintenance
Plan, Service and Task are three levels with different roles. What each one decides, the costliest granularity mistakes and how to build the hierarchy.
Mileage-based or time-based maintenance: which one applies to your fleet
Each Service in the plan is triggered by kilometers, by time or by whichever comes first. How to decide based on the component and the real usage profile.
Comparing fuel efficiency between drivers: how to build it and how to interpret it
How to compare fuel efficiency between drivers using the model’s expected fuel efficiency, what distorts the result and how to discuss it.
Maintenance plans by vehicle model: how they are structured
Why the plan is designed once per model and not vehicle by vehicle, how it is structured into Plan, Service and Task, and in what order to implement it.
Corporate fuel policy: how to write it and how to enforce it
The components of a corporate fuel policy, which ones can be verified with system data and which ones depend on a manual review.
Maintenance for owned, leased or rented fleets: who pays for what
Who pays for maintenance under each acquisition scheme, where the fine print of long-term rental hides and how to record costs so the numbers add up.
How the digital checklist automatically creates the corrective ticket (and why it matters)
When the checklist detects a fault, the corrective ticket opens on its own. Why this integration changes the operation and how to configure it.
How VEC Fleet automatically detects invalid fuelings: the algorithm in plain language
How VEC Fleet validates every fueling against four checks, explained in plain language with no black box.
How to cut fuel costs by 12-18% with the 5 control levers
Fuel costs can be cut by 12-18% without changing the operation. The 5 levers that work and the order in which to activate them.
Scheduled preventive vehicle maintenance: how to build a calendar that actually gets followed
Preventive maintenance only works if it gets done. How to build a scheduled maintenance calendar that doesn’t fall apart in the first week of operation.