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A recent JD Power reliability study shows users find electric vehicles far more troublesome than gasoline and hybrid vehicles.
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ADAS features are increasingly optional or standard even in mainstream vehicles, yet repairing those systems when they malfunction after a crash requires a unique skillset. A new certification test for technicians to qualify them to diagnose, service, and calibrate ADAS.
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The latest addition to Spiffy’s Complete Car Care marketplace connects customers with independent mechanics for major repairs.
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Fleet car and truck maintenance costs have been trending upward during the first half of the 2021-calendar year as total fleet miles driven have increased in response to a recovering economy compared to 2020-CY. Prior to this, work-from-home mandates and the idling of non-essential fleets exerted downward pressure on fleet maintenance costs as fewer business miles, in the aggregate, were driven.
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Vehicle maintenance expenses declined in CY-2020 primarily due the COVID lockdowns, but are trending upward in 2021. The forecast for CY-2022 is for maintenance costs to further increase due to higher labor rates and tire expenses.
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Fleet is a department, not unlike human resources, legal, or accounting, and it interacts with all of these and others. But can fleet management stand alone within the corporate structure?
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RepairSmith has acquired More Automotive Group, a provider of mobile repair and maintenance services for fleets, property managers, and corporate office parks in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, Calif.
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Now is when the fleet industry should be proactively identifying these future technicians. The fleet industry has a window to tap into this idled labor pool, who will look attractive to other industries experiencing labor shortages leading to increased competition to recruit this talent.
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The vehicle maintenance and repair industries are experiencing a skilled labor shortage as technicians in the Baby Boomer demographic retire in greater numbers than those replacing them. The skilled labor shortage requires shops to pay more for skilled technicians, which translates into higher shop labor rates.
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Higher labor costs will continue to increase the maintenance spend for routine repairs in 2020, especially at service facilities located in high-cost-of-living metro areas.
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