Miles tell only part of the cost story for vocational fleets. Connecting maintenance, utilization, PTO hours, upfit costs, and other truck-level data can give finance a clearer picture of what each asset really costs and when it may be time to replace it.
A bucket truck raised at a utility pole, a dump truck waiting its turn at a job site, a service body idling while a crew works nearby: none of them earns its keep by racking up highway miles. Yet the cost data that reaches most finance departments is organized around the odometer, the fuel receipt, and the repair invoice.
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