Ask a refrigerated van fleet how many miles a unit drove last week and they'll have an answer in seconds. Ask how many hours its reefer actually ran, including every minute it sat parked at a curb with the compressor working, and most fleets have no idea. That second number is the one preventive maintenance should actually be built around. See how FleetRabbit schedules reefer PM on the hours that matter.
Refrigerated Cargo Van Preventive Maintenance Software Built Around the Hours You Can't See on the Odometer
Schedule reefer PM on engine hours, watch every van's status across the fleet, and catch a small issue before it becomes a stalled delivery.
The Reefer Doesn't Care Whether the Van Is Moving
A delivery van can sit at the curb for ten minutes at every stop while the driver carries packages, and the reefer keeps running that whole time to hold setpoint. Multiply that across a full route and the compressor can log more real working hours in a short-mileage day than it would on a long highway haul. A PM plan built on mileage alone is scheduling around the wrong number, and it will eventually let a real interval slip past unnoticed.
Where Every Van Actually Stands
Illustrative fleet view. FleetRabbit builds this from each van's real engine-hour and service data.
See every van's status without asking anyone
A live board of what's healthy, what's due and what's already in the shop. Free for your first three vehicles.
The Cost of Waiting Doesn't Rise in a Straight Line
A reefer service caught right on schedule is routine, planned work. The same issue caught a few weeks late often costs meaningfully more, and caught after a full failure mid-route, it costs the repair, the lost load and the customer conversation that follows. The gap between those three outcomes usually isn't the mechanical problem itself, it's how early it was caught.
What's Actually on a Reefer's PM List
PM and Temperature Monitoring Work Together
A reefer that's on schedule for service is far less likely to drift out of range in the first place, which is why preventive maintenance and temperature monitoring aren't really separate problems. One keeps the equipment reliable, the other confirms it's actually holding, and together they cover both the cause and the symptom.
What FleetRabbit Gives a Refrigerated Van Fleet
Frequently Asked Questions
The reefer often runs while the van is parked, holding setpoint at every stop, so its engine hours can climb much faster than the odometer suggests.
It shows which vans are healthy, due soon, overdue or already in the shop without anyone having to check each vehicle individually, so nothing depends on someone remembering to look.
The same mechanical problem tends to cost more the longer it goes unaddressed, from routine service, to a bigger repair, to a full failure with a lost load attached.
No. They address different things: PM keeps the equipment reliable, while temperature monitoring confirms it's actually holding range on a given load.
Yes. Start free with three vehicles and scale up as your fleet grows.
Schedule the Van You Actually Have
Engine-hour reefer PM, a live fleet-wide status board and audit-ready records in one place. Free for your first three vehicles.
