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Squarerigger Fleet Software
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April 2, 2026

What’s Actually Causing Your Fleet Downtime? (And How to Fix It)

Most fleet downtime isn't caused by the breakdown. It's caused by everything that happens after. The truck stops. A driver calls in. A technician gets dispatched or doesn't. Someone else calls a vendor. A work order gets created — maybe in the system, maybe on a notepad. Parts need to be ordered. And somewhere in that chain, an hour becomes a day and a day becomes three. The repair itself might take two hours. The coordination around it takes the rest of the week. This is the part that rarely shows up in the downtime ledger, and it's the part that's costing you the most.