Per-unit P&L
Revenue, fuel, tolls, maintenance and fixed cost tracked per truck, per week, per lane.
Fleet Management
Fleet management services for small and mid-size carriers
Utilization, cost per mile and profit per unit — measured weekly, reviewed with you monthly, acted on daily.
- Revenue per truck per week
- Loaded-mile percentage
- Unplanned maintenance events
The short answer
What is fleet management, and what do you actually get?
Fleet management means tracking what each truck actually earns: utilisation, cost per mile, maintenance intervals and profit per unit. MSM Transit runs that operations layer for fleets of 3 to 300 trucks, with a per-unit P&L, a written weekly scorecard and a standing monthly review.
What this fixes
If any of this sounds like your operation, this service is for you.
These are the four problems carriers describe most often on the first call about fleet management.
- No reliable number for what each truck actually earns
- Maintenance handled reactively, on the shoulder, at retail price
- Utilization guessed at instead of measured
- Growth stalled because operations cannot absorb another five trucks
What we measure
The numbers you see every Monday for fleet management
A service you cannot measure is a service you cannot judge. These are on the written weekly scorecard from week one.
- Revenue per truck per week — so growth is measured per unit, not in aggregate
- Loaded-mile percentage — against your fleet target
- Unplanned maintenance events — and what each one cost the week
The systems these numbers come out of — load intelligence, rate benchmarking, ELD and TMS integration — are set out on our technology page.
What is included
Exactly what you get with Fleet Management
No vague promises. This is the scope of work, item by item.
Utilization management
Loaded-mile percentage and revenue-per-working-day tracked against your fleet target.
Maintenance calendar
PM intervals, DOT inspections and warranty windows scheduled before they become breakdowns.
Driver assignment
Trucks matched to drivers by home time, lane preference and safety profile.
Vendor coordination
Shops, tire programs, fuel networks and roadside handled by your ops team, not your phone.
Weekly ops review
A standing call with a written scorecard. No mystery about how the fleet performed.
What fleet management fixes first
Run a 30-truck fleet with the visibility of a 300-truck carrier.
Utilization, cost per mile and profit per unit — measured weekly, reviewed with you monthly, acted on daily.
Below is what changes in the first weeks, drawn from the same scope of work set out above — not a generic onboarding script.
- Per-unit P&L. Revenue, fuel, tolls, maintenance and fixed cost tracked per truck, per week, per lane.
- Utilization management. Loaded-mile percentage and revenue-per-working-day tracked against your fleet target.
- Maintenance calendar. PM intervals, DOT inspections and warranty windows scheduled before they become breakdowns.
- Driver assignment. Trucks matched to drivers by home time, lane preference and safety profile.
This matters most if you run dry van, power only or reefer, where the difference between a good week and a bad one is usually decided before the load is ever accepted.
Most carriers who take this on also hand us driver management, safety & compliance and back office support within the first month — it is the same operation, and splitting it across vendors is where things get dropped.
If you would rather read before you call: Scaling past five trucks: the operational ceiling nobody warns you about, and The owner operator profit guide: what your cost per mile is really telling you.
Get a quote
Ask us about fleet management
A dispatcher replies within one business hour — usually much faster.
Questions
Fleet Management — straight answers
We already have a TMS. Can you work inside it?
Yes. We operate inside your TMS and ELD, or provide ours. We are software-agnostic and will not force a migration.
What fleet size do you work with?
From 3 trucks to 300. Below 3 trucks, our Truck Dispatch service is usually the better fit.
Works well with
Carriers usually pair this with
Driver Management
Recruiting support, onboarding, home-time planning and daily driver communication that keeps seats filled.
Learn moreSafety & Compliance
FMCSA compliance, CSA score management, IFTA, drug & alcohol program coordination and audit readiness.
Learn moreBack Office Support
The administrative engine — setups, packets, check calls, updates and inboxes — handled off your plate.
Learn moreGo deeper
Equipment where fleet management changes the numbers most
The same service, applied to the trailer type you actually run.
Dry Van dispatch
The backbone of freight. Consistent volume, tight margins — which is exactly why negotiation and deadhead control decide profitability.
Read onPower Only dispatch
Low overhead, fast turns. The winning strategy is trailer availability and program relationships, not board scraping.
Read onReefer dispatch
Temperature-controlled freight pays more and demands more. Continuous monitoring, pre-cool discipline and claim-proof paperwork.
Read onFree dispatch audit
Ready to hand off fleet management?
Book a free 20-minute audit. We will tell you honestly whether this service will move your numbers — and what it would cost.
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