The American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) found that technician recruitment, retention, and training are back on the list of fleet managers’ top five maintenance concerns from Winter to Spring 2025. Although these concerns were not the top issue rated for the Spring 2025 Survey, they did encompass 60% of the list.
For the Spring 2025 Survey, over 400 TMC fleet members selected their top five concerns from a list of 85 possible options. From those, managers selected the following as their top worries:
Diagnostics
Technician Shortage
Tires
Technician Staffing and Technician Training (tie)
Cost Containment and Technician Retention (tie)
Of this list, only Tires kept its place from the last quarter. Additionally, Labor Rates, Parts Shortage/Availability, and Preventative Maintenance Inspection ranked sixth as fleets’ top concern, with other issues such as New Technology Challenges, Aftertreatment, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and Brakes filling out the top 10 issues.
Between winter and spring, Emissions/GHG, Aftertreatment, and Inflation all dropped off of the top five list. Here’s the Winter 2025 Survey top maintenance concerns
Emissions/GHG
Aftertreatment
Tires
Cost Containment
Inflation (Parts, Oil, Fuel, Equipment)
Additionally, TMC found that fleet managers added Cost Add Ons, Cost of Replacement Components, Component Service Life, and Lack of Root Cause Analysis by Vendors.
