Welcome to FMS

FMS provides the highest level of experienced hands on inspectors in the business.  Our staff have been performing this work since 1979.  Our inspectors have hands-on experience performing in plant quality assurance inspections.  Each inspector is trained to approach every manufacturing plant and inspection project in a uniform way to insure consistency from plant to plant and from heavy duty vehicles to light duty vehicles.  We utilize a shared cloud approach which allows our clients to view the process as quickly and as technically practical.  If your agency is truly looking for your new vehicles to hit the road as soon as possible after the vehicles reach your property, then Fleet Maintenance Specialists is the inspection team for you.

Have you been struggling to find a vehicle Inspection support team that not only documents in detail the condition of the fleet, but does it utilizing a tablet format that allows you to watch as the inspection evolves.  FMS provides the highest level and experienced inspectors in the business.  Our staff have experience since 1979 with hands-on maintenance and contract oversight and our staff have been performing fleet condition assessments  since 1995 including vehicle maintenance quarterly audits and contract turnover audits.  This experience gives us the highest degree of understanding of the overall vehicle integrity inspection process.  We have found that the documentation process as well as the aggregation of data is key in order to insure this process is transparent and eliminate any delays in documented findings.  This includes speedy documentation and turnaround of the data as well as identification of trends in system categories.  We have improved this process significantly by utilizing tablet input, which allows as close to real time data upload to our clients.  We can also provide an estimate the cost of the final defects.

FMS provides a high level of engineering support to agencies that are looking to perform mid life rehabilitation of their transit vehicles from heavy duty transit buses to rail cars and light rail vehicles.  We have performed this services since 1979.  We partner with agencies to develop a technical scope of work and provide valuable insight as to issues that could cause pitfalls during the rehab process.  It is critical to insure that the technical specifications are solid, as well as, the vehicle startups are evaluated to the highest standards.  In addition, it is critical that the pitfalls or critical condition of the vehicles or production processes are identified so that they do not cause schedule slippage.