Fleet PM and DOT Inspection Cost Estimator

Pick your truck count and the inspections that are due, and this prices a yard visit from the same ranges published on the pricing page. It does not ask for an email and it does not hide the number behind a call.

The reason yard PM is priced per truck rather than per hour is that the work is predictable: oil, filters, grease, fluid levels, belts and hoses inspected, brake adjustment, and a walk of the air system. What is not predictable is what the PM finds, which is the point of doing it. A brake chamber or slack adjuster is $250 to $600 per wheel end, an air leak is $200 to $600 plus parts, and anything found gets quoted before it is fixed.

What each answer changes

Truck count multiplies the per-truck figure. It does not discount for volume in this tool; a standing schedule is priced on a call, and that is where a rotation gets its number.
The tractor annual adds $100 to $200 per unit for the 49 CFR 396.17 inspection. Doing it on a PM day is why it sits at the bottom of the range: the unit is already jacked, greased, and open.
Trailers are the units most often forgotten until an inspector finds them. A trailer annual is the same $100 to $200, and adding a lights and wiring check is the cheapest insurance on the road, given that 49 CFR 393.9(a) requires every required lamp to be capable of being operated at all times.

Why fleets around here schedule instead of react

The duty cycle in Pinal County is hard on trucks: short hops between the Casa Grande, Coolidge, and Eloy docks, long idle periods on gravel yards, a July normal high of 105.7 degrees at the Casa Grande National Monument station, and monsoon dust heavy enough that ADOT runs a detection system on I-10 between mileposts 209 and 219. That combination plugs DPFs, cooks batteries, loads air filters, and finds every marginal hose. Almost all of it is visible on a PM and almost none of it is visible from a dispatch screen.

The fleet PM and DOT inspection page lists exactly what a visit includes and what appendix A to part 396 requires the annual to cover. If a truck is already down instead, the roadside call-out estimator prices that call, and the problems pages explain the symptom before you spend anything.

Estimator

What will a yard PM visit cost?

Pick how many trucks are in the yard and what inspections are due. The ranges are the ones published on our pricing page, per truck, with the work done where the units are parked.

How many trucks in the visit? DOT annual inspection on the tractors? Trailers in the same visit?

Estimated range Typical Casa Grande pricing, before anyone visits

Everything here is per truck and then multiplied by the count, because that is how a yard visit is actually priced. What it cannot see is a repair found during the PM: a brake chamber or slack adjuster is $250 to $600 per wheel end, an air leak is $200 to $600 plus parts, and a truck that needs a forced regen adds $250 to $500. Those are quoted before anyone turns a wrench, not added afterward.

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An estimate, not a quote. Standing fleet schedules are priced on one call, and the number written before the visit is the number on the invoice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do these numbers come from?

The pricing page: a full PM service in the yard is $350 to $700 per truck, a DOT annual inspection is $100 to $200 for a tractor or a trailer, and trailer lights and wiring run $150 to $500. The estimator multiplies the per-truck figure by your unit count and adds the inspections you select. Nothing here is a number the site does not publish.

What does the DOT annual inspection actually cover?

49 CFR 396.17 requires every commercial vehicle to be inspected at least once in the preceding 12 months against the standards in appendix A to part 396, and the carrier has to keep the report or a compliant decal. Done in your yard on a PM day it sits at the bottom of the $100 to $200 range, because the unit is already open and on the ground.

Is a yard visit really cheaper than sending trucks to a shop?

For scheduled work, yes, and the saving is mostly the driver's day rather than the labor rate. A truck in your yard is not burning fuel to a shop, not sitting in a queue, and not out of service on a load. It also catches the failures that otherwise become roadside calls at $150 to $350 a call-out, or $250 to $500 after hours.

Can you set up a standing schedule?

Yes, on one call. The usual shape is every unit on a rotation with the annual folded into whichever visit it falls nearest, so nothing lapses and nothing gets inspected twice. Give the truck count, the units, and the mileage interval you run and the schedule and the rate are set together.