Parts inventories can be intimidating to manage, and if not done well, can be costly. On average, parts are 50 percent of what labor cost is for the typical trucking fleet.

In my last post we talked about the frustrations of an executive maintenance leader. Now let’s talk about how fleet management can reduce these frustrations to help maintain and motivate their maintenance leaders.

There’s a lot of well-founded discussion in the trucking industry about the shortage of technicians. I believe an even bigger potential impact on fleet performance, however, is the lack of qualified maintenance managers.