Few operators in Ashby-de-la-Zouch went into business to manage maintenance. A contract hands that job to one team. Your vehicles are serviced and inspected on schedule, defects are repaired before they turn into breakdowns, and when one does stop on the A42 at night, the people you ring are the people who already know its history.
A town of mixed fleets
The work that keeps Ashby busy produces every kind of commercial vehicle. There is food manufacturing and distribution, with the town's largest employer a distribution centre shipping nationwide; there are retailers and their delivery vans; and there are the hauliers, tradespeople and service businesses spread across North West Leicestershire. One contract can cover HGVs, trailers, coaches, minibuses, vans and light commercials, along with specialist and emergency-service vehicles, so an operator with a mixture of them deals with one team rather than four.
How the year runs
When a contract starts, we plan the calendar for the whole fleet: services to the manufacturer's schedule, PMI safety inspections at the intervals on your operator licence with brake performance checked every time, and preparation before each annual test. Planned work happens at our Melbourne workshop, Monday to Friday from 07:30 to 17:00, or at your premises if that keeps vehicles earning. Faults picked up on drivers' walkaround checks can be fixed in your yard by our mobile technicians, often before the next shift.
Breakdown cover can sit inside the same agreement. A tractor unit that stops between the M42 and the M1, or a van that won't start in a yard off the A511, goes through 01332 916028 to the same team, any hour of the day. Because they serviced it, they aren't meeting the vehicle for the first time on the verge, and a fault that keeps returning gets noticed and fixed properly rather than patched again.
Every visit is written up: what was inspected, what was found, what was done. Inspections happen on time because they were planned months ahead, and the paperwork is ready when DVSA, an auditor or a customer asks for it. That is what protects your OCRS score and, in the end, your licence.
Switching doesn't mean starting again. Tell us when each vehicle is next due for its inspection and service, share recent inspection records if you have them, and we pick up the schedule from there so nothing falls through the gap. We agree the scope with you at the start, and fleet customers are set up on account. Ring 01332 916028 and tell us what you run, how many and where they are kept.
