Inflation Tops TMC’s Summer 2024 Maintenance Concerns List, According to Recent Council Survey
TMC Fleet Members Top Maintenance Concerns Continue to Shift in 2024
Inflation Tops TMC’s Summer 2024 List, According to Recent Council Survey
The things that keep fleet managers up at night continued to shift through the middle of July 2024, according to a summer survey conducted by ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC)— at least when it comes to TMC fleet members’ top maintenance worries.
More than 400 TMC fleet members were asked to share their current top five fleet maintenance concerns, based on a wide-ranging list of 85 possible choices from which to select. Of those responding, the following were identified as the top reported concerns in descending order, even though the list did not prove to be a clean top five:
1. The top maintenance issue identified in the summer 2024 survey was Inflation (Economic).
2. Brakes and Cost Containment were identified as the number two maintenance issue facing fleets (tie).
3. Technician Training was identified by fleets as number three.
4. New Technology Challenges and Labor Rates were identified as number four (tie).
5. Technician Retention and Technician Staffing were tied as number five.
Warranty Awareness just missed the top five coming in at sixth place.
Inflation and Brakes appeared in the TMC top five list for the first time in the ongoing series, significantly placing as first and second top concern respectively. Dropping from the top 5 since the last survey was conducted in the fall of 2023 were Aftertreatment, Roadside Breakdowns, Data Management and Vendor Reliability.
The list changed from the last time TMC surveyed fleet members on this question in November 2023. At that time, members said their top five concerns were:
1. Technician Staffing
2. Aftertreatment
3. Roadside Breakdowns
4. Data Management, New Technology Challenges, and Vendor Reliability (tie)
5. New Equipment Availability
— Robert Braswell, TMC Executive Director