TMC Fleet Members Top Maintenance Concerns Continue to Shift from Summer to Fall 2024
TMC Fleet Members Top Maintenance Concerns
Continue to Shift from Summer to Fall 2024
Aftertreatment, Emissions Return to Top Five After One Year’s Absence, According to Recent Council Survey
The things that keep fleet managers up at night continued to shift through the end of October 2024, according to a fall 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:
1. The top maintenance issue identified in the Fall 2024 survey was Aftertreatment.
2. Cost Containment was identified as the number two maintenance issue facing fleets.
3. Inflation (Economic)and Technician Shortage were identified by fleets as number three (tie).
4. Emissions/GHG was identified as number four.
5. Roadside Breakdowns was identified as number five.
New Technology Challenges just missed the top five coming in at sixth place.
Aftertreatment and Emissions/GHG returned to the top five after a year of absence. Cost Containment repeated in the number two spot from TMC’s summer 2024 survey. Technician Training, Retention and Staffing dropped out of the top five entirely, after having ranked in the 3rd, 4th and 5th spots last time. Brakes also dropped out of the top five since the summer data.
The list changed from the last time TMC surveyed fleet members on this question in the summer of 2024. At that time, members said their top five concerns were:
1. Inflation (Economic).
2. Brakes and Cost Containment (tie).
3. Technician Training
4. New Technology Challenges and Labor (tie).
5. Technician Retention and Technician Staffing (tie).
— Robert Braswell, TMC Executive Director