Garbage truck maintenance is challenged by a number of factors that impact overall business performance – starting with the number of vehicles modern fleets have to manage.
While vehicle and body technologies have grown dramatically over the last decade, the means to collect data from a refuse collection vehicle have lagged – often resulting in reactive maintenance campaigns that only tackle repairs after the vehicle is out of service, or down on route. This in turn impacts fleet productivity and customer service. Ultimately, this leads to an increased spare ratio, which only adds additional cost.