Maintenance for plumbing, electrical and HVAC companies: ten vans and a whiteboard, sorted.

Your vans are your workshops on wheels. Cargovate reminds you when each one is due, lets technicians do the monthly van check on their phone, and keeps the repairs and costs for every van in one place.

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The problem

Ten vans and a whiteboard

In a trades business the van is the job site, and maintenance usually lives on a whiteboard and in the owner's memory. Oil changes get stretched, a technician drives on a warning light because nobody asked, and the real cost of each van is spread across a dozen card statements.

Get your vans into Cargovate in about ten minutes. 0:57 · Watch with chapters and transcriptDemo tenant — the companies and data shown are fictional.

What you get

Built around the way trades fleets work

Reminders before the van is due: Oil, tire rotation and brakes by miles, the annual service by date. You see which van is due this week before it becomes a breakdown on the way to a customer.
Van checks without the clipboard: Technicians do the daily vehicle check (DVIR) on their phone: brakes, lights, tires and emergency equipment. Your own monthly van check — ladder rack, extinguisher, first-aid kit — comes due every month for each van as a task. A problem goes in with a photo and stays open until it is fixed.
What each van really costs: Repairs, parts, labor and fuel per van, with miles per gallon and cost per mile — the numbers you need when deciding to replace one.
Your vehicles: Cargo vans, pickups and a trailer or two. Type them as you call them — the import recognises the usual names.

Start in minutes

A starter workbook for plumbing, electrical & hvac

An Excel workbook with the services a trades fleet usually tracks already listed. Change the intervals to your manufacturers' schedules, add your vehicles, save each tab as CSV and import it — or import the spreadsheet you keep today.

Oil and filter change
Tire rotation
Brake check
Monthly van check (lights, ladder rack, extinguisher, first-aid kit)
Annual service

Download the trades workbook (Excel)

Price

Fleet Lite or Fleet, by card, from the first day

Fleet Lite: $49 a month for up to 10 vehicles and equipment, any number of users — start today
Fleet: $249 a month for up to 50, adding tires, warranties, technician assignment, teams and Motive — order Fleet
Annual: Ten months' price for a year, paid up front. Full pricing

Questions

Plumbing, electrical & HVAC: common questions

Do my technicians need training?

The van check is a short list on their phone. Any number of people can use Cargovate, so every technician has their own sign-in.

Can I see fuel costs per van?

Yes. Log fill-ups per van and Cargovate shows the miles per gallon and the cost per mile.