You find out about the breakdown on the shoulder.
A tractor that derates 400 miles out costs a tow, a driver and a delivery window. Tensor Planet flags degrading units while they are still close enough to fix.
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Where a road call actually hits you
The tow is the cheapest line on the invoice
A simple towaway starts around $250. The day that truck is off the road runs $448 to $760 on its own, before the reload, the late fee and the account manager call.
Fault codes arrive too late to route around
By the time a lamp is on, your options are a shop you have never used or a tow. Weeks of warning makes it a bay slot at your own terminal, and unplanned work costs 3 to 9 times more.
Driver time is the scarcest thing you own
Hours sat waiting on a repair are hours off the clock and a driver deciding whether to stay. Unplanned downtime is a retention problem before it is a maintenance one.
Some operations get hit eight times as often
A bulk hauler goes under 10,000 miles between breakdowns. An LTL carrier goes 80,817. Same tow, same day rate, eight times as many of them, and that is before you price the load.
What we watch on a tractor
Aftertreatment and engine systems, read from your existing telematics integration. No hardware, no driver workflow changes.
- DPF inlet-pressure decay and soot load trending toward a derate
- DEF dosing and quality faults
- EGR degradation across duty cycles
- NOx sensor drift
- Engine coolant temperature and level behavior
- Battery and cranking voltage decline
- ...and many other systems
Brakebush Transportation, Inc., seven weeks in
realized savings in seven weeks
total downtime hours saved
alerts shared to act on
Source: Brakebush Transportation, Inc., Wisconsin
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We read your telematics and six months of work orders, then hand back the vehicles at risk and what they would cost you. Your team does nothing while it runs.
The questions on your mind.
Can you tell which truck will break down on the road?
Yes, typically two to three weeks ahead, from the telematics feed you already run. Brakebush Transportation, Inc. saved $26,517 and 142 downtime hours in its first seven weeks.
How is Tensor Planet different from telematics systems?
Telematics systems show vehicle location, safety events, and fault codes. Tensor Planet works with your telematics data to detect, diagnose, and prevent failures weeks before they happen. We tell you what’s likely to fail, why, and what action to take.
How long does implementation take?
Most fleets can start seeing first alerts within 1 to 3 weeks after data access, with predictions improving as the model tunes to fleet patterns.
We already do preventive maintenance. Why do we need this?
Fixed-interval PMs treat every vehicle the same. We use each vehicle’s sensor data and repair history to catch issues between PMs and flag repairs only when needed.