Unfortunately, truck breakdowns are inevitable. No preventive maintenance program is foolproof and problems can and do occur when your drivers are on the road. Having a relationship with a breakdown ...

Proactive maintenance and reactive maintenance may sound similar, but while they are not polar opposites, each is a way of performing maintenance that differs greatly. A paper published in the ...

Equipment maintenance planning is incredibly complex. It requires tracking hours and suggested service schedules on each individual asset a company owns, keeping up with unexpected breakdowns and job ...

The cost of vehicle/fleet maintenance and repairs is increasing. The Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) latest benchmarking report found that the average cost of mechanical repairs increased for ...

When most people think of maintenance, they imagine people fixing equipment that’s broken and keeping facilities in working order. The term “maintenance” itself is deceiving, because it leads us to ...

Cory Jansen, executive vice president of operations for Fastenal, knows a downed machine can cost a production line dearly. Each malfunction takes time and money to repair. Production time also is ...