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For a technician, is vehicle fleet maintenance a more secure career or working on regular consumers vehicles? I realize fleet maintenance may only be PM type of services, but companies and municipalities require full functioning vehicles to get jobs done. On the other side consumers may need heftier work done to their vehicles, but the way I’ve seen the industry go now a days people are just leasing and getting rid of their lease cars in 5 years tops.
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Everyone I have talked with, if you can get in with fleet and on hourly pay with good benefits that’s the way to go.
Honestly it all depends on the area and type of retail your going after. Are you talking independent or dealer type work?
In my area we are very seasonal, when the snow birds come in mostly. The Mazda dealer I currently work for, Some do maintenence and up keep on their vehicle, but many just trade off when their basic warranty or lease is up. Usually our bread and butter here are used cars.
When I was at Chevrolet, things were a little different. Especially truck and corvette owners. They kept their vehicles and kept up on maintenence very well typically.
Now there’s a new independent diesel shop that opened 10 minutes from my house, that they are thriving big time right now. But we have many truck and diesel owners in the area and few know how to diagnose and work on them without loading the parts cannon up. On the one side of things, fleet services depend on their vehicles to make them money. If they are down, that means that truck and/or business is not making money for the time that vehicle is down. Especially if it’s the companies only vehicle. So there are multiple things to acess when looking between the two.
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