Fleet maintenance is operational risk management. A vehicle that fails on the road costs the business the repair, the recovery, the missed job and the time to rebook. A fleet maintenance programme built around scheduled servicing and preventative inspections reduces those unplanned costs to a fraction of what reactive breakdown repair costs over a year. At KITH Cars Garage in Hackbridge, we provide fleet servicing to businesses of all sizes.
The Preventative Maintenance Inspection, or PMI, is the most cost-effective tool in fleet maintenance. At £25+VAT per vehicle it covers all the main safety and condition items: brakes, tyres, lights, fluid levels, steering and suspension. A written report comes back with each inspection listing everything in green, amber and red. Red items are booked for repair. Amber items are tracked for the next visit. The fleet manager gets a clear picture of the fleet's condition without needing to check each vehicle individually.
Block MOT scheduling keeps the paperwork under control. Instead of tracking individual MOT expiry dates for each vehicle and making separate bookings as each one falls due, we schedule batches of vehicles on the same day or over consecutive days. Vehicles arriving together, leaving together, and the MOT dates all reset to a similar point. One arrangement, much less administration.
Fleet account vehicles are handled as a priority through our workshop. We understand that a van that cannot be used is a direct cost to the business. We turn fleet vehicles around faster than retail bookings and communicate with the fleet manager when a vehicle is ready or when an additional fault has been found during the work.
Flexible weekly invoicing replaces per-vehicle payment for approved accounts. One invoice per week covering all vehicles serviced in that period, with a line item for each vehicle and the work done. Straightforward for accounts purposes and easier to forecast.
All fleet account enquiries and pricing are handled directly by Logkith. Please call 020 4629 9469 to discuss your fleet requirements.
