Engagement: Fleet Maintenance Review, 52 coaches across two depots
Challenge: Rising parts spend with no clear pattern. Workshop blamed road conditions; finance suspected supplier pricing.
Our approach: Six-week review including three days on site. We reconciled 14 months of invoices, tagged repairs by axle position and route gradient, and interviewed six drivers about recurring vibrations.
Outcome: Report identified that 70% of excess suspension spend came from eight units assigned to a single steep route. Operator shifted those units to flatter routes and renegotiated one supplier contract based on our parts-category breakdown.
Client note: "The visit felt like an audit at first, but the analysts ate lunch with our mechanics and asked about things we had stopped writing down."