The service, maintenance and repair (SMR) costs of your equipment, machinery and vehicles can have a significant impact on the profitability of your business. How many times have you had a breakdown that has ended up losing you a day’s work and annoyed your customer? These hidden costs are usually ignored when looking at your fleet management costs but they have a significant impact on the profitability of your business. 1 – Importance of maintenance The best run businesses take a proactive approach to completing routine, scheduled and daily checks of their fleet. These preventative measures ensure that minor issues are found before they become major expensive issues. Preventative maintenance methods lower fleet costs and increase fleet reliability and safety. This increases the profitability of your business in the short and long term. Fleet maintenance is critical in reducing the time lost due to unscheduled breakdown issues. 2 - Unscheduled maintenance and scheduled maintenance