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Fleet servicing and maintenance
Fleet servicing is scheduled maintenance for a business running several vehicles.
What fleet servicing means
The point is planning: inspections at set intervals, work grouped so vehicles are off the road as little as possible, and records kept in one place. Many garages will also handle MOT booking and collection.
What the job covers
- Scheduled servicing across a vehicle fleet
- Fleet MOT management
- Downtime planning and courtesy vehicles
- Consolidated monthly invoicing
- Defect reporting and compliance records
When you might need it
- You are running more vehicles than you can track on a spreadsheet.
- Vehicles are being taken off the road unexpectedly rather than to a plan.
- You need maintenance records you can produce quickly.
What it costs, and what changes the price
Typically by contract.
- Usually agreed as a rate per vehicle or a contract, rather than job by job.
- Van and car mixes are priced differently.
- Collection and delivery, and out of hours work, are common extras worth asking about.
How long it takes
Individual jobs take the same time as they would for a private car. The saving is in the scheduling, not the spanner work.
Common questions
How many vehicles make it worth arranging?
There is no fixed number. Some garages will set terms for three or four vehicles, others want more.
Can one garage handle vans and cars together?
Most can, provided they are authorised for the van classes. Every listing here says which classes it may test.
What records should I expect?
Dated inspection sheets, what was done, and what was advised and declined. That last one matters if a vehicle is ever looked at after an incident.