Auto Advocate Fleet
Reduce downtime. Control costs. Improve safety.
Protect the vehicles that keep your business moving.
Whether your vehicles carry service technicians, make deliveries, support construction crews or travel between jobsites, they need to be ready when the work calls.
When one becomes unavailable, what happens to the work? Who adjusts the schedule, finds a replacement or handles the customer waiting on service?
Those interruptions can become routine without their full cost ever being counted.
We explain the available approaches, examine their costs and terms, and help you assess how they fit your operation.
You may already know exactly what needs attention. You may simply know that the same problems keep costing you time and money.
Either way, you have a place to start.
We help service businesses, delivery operations, construction and oilfield companies, utilities and municipal fleets work through safety concerns, recurring tire problems, maintenance expenses, unexpected repairs, and vehicle replacement questions.
Depending on your needs, we can help evaluate safety tools, tire prevention and protection, customizable maintenance programs, vehicle service contracts, and vehicle purchasing or replacement options.
Start with your biggest challenge
Start with the issue that keeps costing you time, money or attention.
When a vehicle goes into the shop, what happens to the work it was supposed to do?
A crew may wait, another vehicle may take over or jobs may move to another day. We help you examine those interruptions and their cost.
Talk About Fleet Downtime
Is maintenance happening on schedule, or does it get pushed back when the operation gets busy?
Inconsistent service and recurring repairs can make expenses harder to control. We help review your current practices and evaluate maintenance program options.
Explore Fleet Maintenance
When a driver gets a flat, does only the vehicle stop, or does a crew or customer lose time too?
We help you understand the full cost and evaluate tire maintenance, PermaSeal and Tire & Wheel protection where appropriate.
Explore Tires & Downtime
After a collision, who handles the repair, the claim and the work left behind?
We help examine your incident history and operational costs, then evaluate relevant safety approaches, including Brake Plus.
Explore Fleet Safety
As factory coverage expires, which repairs would put the most pressure on your budget?
We help review your exposure and compare vehicle service contract options, including coverage, exclusions and terms.
Explore Vehicle Protection
What tells you it is time to replace a vehicle?
We help bring repair history, downtime, current value and replacement costs into the same decision.
Talk About Vehicle ReplacementTell us which problem keeps landing back on your desk.
We can help you work through its impact and identify where a closer review would be useful.
Why fleet operators choose Auto Advocate
Auto Advocate is led by founder and CEO Scott Williams and COO John "Erik" Davis.
Our dealership experience gives us a practical understanding of vehicle purchasing, trade values and protection products. We understand how pricing and coverage are presented, and why the details deserve a closer look.
We bring that experience to decisions about the vehicles your business depends on. You bring the knowledge of your operation. Together, we can examine the problem, the numbers and the available approaches.
Our work is guided by honesty, integrity and transparency. We explain what we recommend, why it may fit and which terms or limitations matter to your decision.
Get help reviewing vehicle pricing, trade values and protection options so you can make a more informed decision.
Your repair records, incident history, and operating costs help guide the discussion. We consider the expense and disruption of the problem alongside the cost of a proposed approach.
Vehicle types, mileage, operating conditions, and replacement schedules matter. We help evaluate maintenance and protection options around how your vehicles actually work.
Fleet needs change. Our goal is to become someone you can call when a recurring problem needs attention or a vehicle decision deserves a closer look.
A simple, consultative approach
Before we recommend anything, we need to understand what is happening, how your team handles it today and what a useful improvement would look like.
Learn how your vehicles are used and what gives your team the biggest headache.
Identify recurring problems and the conditions behind them. Confirm that we understand the issue.
Bring together expenses, downtime and employee time to understand the impact.
Agree on priorities and develop an approach around your operation, budget and timing.
Evaluate relevant changes, services and protection options against the needs we identified.
Work through the practical details of putting the selected approach in place.
Look at what changed and use that information to guide the next decision.
External fleet examples
Fleet examples help show what an approach has delivered under particular operating conditions. We help you consider how that experience relates to your own vehicles and recurring problems.
An Oklahoma fleet comparison evaluated approximately 90 million miles of operation, with roughly half driven by vehicles equipped with Brake Plus and half by vehicles without it. The equipped vehicles experienced an observed 34% reduction in being rear-ended.
In a testimonial published by PermaSeal, Grant Hardman of Australia Wide Trailers for U-Haul reported that tire-related issues fell from approximately 200 to one within a month after installation.
These are external fleet examples. They illustrate available approaches rather than Auto Advocate client results. Your operating conditions and results may differ.
Tools, guides and insights
Our Fleet pages explain the costs and considerations behind safety, maintenance, tire downtime and repair exposure.
Use them to review your operation, identify questions and prepare for a more useful conversation.
Look beyond the repair invoice. Consider employee time, replacement transportation, interrupted work and customer impact.
Explore Tires & DowntimeExamine how service is scheduled, how records are kept and whether practices are consistent across your vehicles.
Explore Fleet MaintenanceConsider your vehicles, existing coverage, expected ownership period and the repairs that could put pressure on your budget.
Explore Vehicle ProtectionBring together repair history, downtime and replacement needs before deciding what to keep or replace.
Explore Fleet ConsultingStart with the problem that keeps interrupting your operation.
We'll ask about your vehicles, how they are used, what happens when the problem occurs and how your team handles it today. We'll listen and make sure we understand the situation.
Then we can work through the expenses, downtime and employee time involved, and identify which issue deserves attention first.
If you have a vehicle list, recent repair invoices, maintenance records or incident history, those can help. You can also start with what you know and bring additional information later.
Once we understand the problem and your priorities, we'll agree on the next step with you. That may involve a closer cost review, evaluating a maintenance or protection program, or working through a vehicle decision.
