Van, Truck and Fleet Repair Pricing

Vans are the volume of commercial work in this region and the damage is remarkably consistent. Sliding door tracks and lower rails from curb strikes. Rear corner and door skin damage from loading docks and tight alleys. Roof damage from parking structures, which on a high roof Sprinter is a weekly occurrence in Orange County.

The variable that surprises fleet managers is paint. A white commercial van is not one white. Mercedes, Ford and Ram each run several factory whites, and a repair panel sprayed to the wrong one reads instantly on a vehicle carrying your logo. We spray to a sprayed-out and verified match, not to a code off a door jamb tag.

On medium duty trucks we handle the body, the cab, the box and the paint. Cab corner and door repair, hood and fender replacement, box wall and floor sections, roll-up and swing door assemblies, translucent roof panel replacement, and structural repair where a box has separated from its subframe.

Box bodies are usually cheaper to repair than fleet managers expect, and the reason is that a box is modular. A damaged rear frame, a torn side wall panel or a floor section can be sectioned and replaced without touching the rest of the body. The number that gets expensive is a box that has racked on its subframe, because that is a structural realignment and it has to be measured, not eyeballed.

Trailers take more structural abuse than anything else in a fleet because they are the part nobody inspects until something goes wrong. Frame cracks at the coupler, spring hanger separation, cross member failure under a load point and rear door frame damage from dock impacts are the four repairs we write most often.

Welding on a trailer frame is not a place to economize. A frame repair that fails on the I-5 with a load behind it is a liability event, not a maintenance issue. We weld to certified procedure with the joint prepped and the geometry verified before and after, and we document it, which matters when a trailer is part of a regulated operation.

A repaired panel with no graphics on it is an unfinished vehicle when the vehicle carries your brand. We do graphics and wraps in house alongside the body work, which means the vehicle leaves once, not twice, and you are not coordinating a repair shop and a sign shop against each other.

Fleet graphics run $1,500 to $9,500 per unit depending on coverage and vehicle size. Partial coverage on a cargo van with door logos and a rear panel sits at the bottom. Full wrap coverage on a 26 foot box truck with a designed layout sits at the top. When we do a multi-unit rollout, we build and proof one vehicle first so you approve the real thing rather than a rendering.

Volume changes scheduling more than it changes rate. Our posted labor rates are our posted labor rates. What a fleet account buys is a reserved bay slot, batch scheduling so multiple units move through in a planned sequence, consolidated invoicing on your terms rather than ours, and an estimator who already knows your unit numbers and your damage history.

Deposit terms flex for established accounts with a credit application on file. Standard retail terms of 50 percent at authorization over $2,000 apply to new accounts and to one-off repairs. For fleets running purchase orders, we bill against the PO. Card payments over $1,000 carry a 3.5 percent surcharge, so most fleet accounts settle by check or ACH.

Body and paint labor is posted at $210 per hour. Mechanical and electrical is $260 per hour. Diagnostics run $285 per hour with a one hour minimum that is credited back against an authorized repair. Ranges below reflect jobs we have actually completed.