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Industry insight Apr 02, 2026 · 12 min

2026 fleet downtime benchmarks: where does yours stand?

We pulled anonymized data from 1,800 fleets to see what 'good' downtime actually looks like in 2026 — by industry, size, and asset class.

· Fleet Specialist
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How we pulled these numbers

We aggregated anonymized telemetry and work-order data from 1,800 fleets running FS365 between Jan 1, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026. Fleets are grouped by primary industry and by asset count.

This data represents FS365 customers, who skew toward small- and mid-market operators. Carriers above 5,000 units are underrepresented.

Downtime by industry

Trucking is the benchmark a lot of operators measure against, but it's not the leader. Utilities actually ran tighter downtime ratios last year — largely because PMs get scheduled against hard compliance windows.

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Median unplanned downtime hours per asset per quarter, 2025.

Size matters less than you think

The spread within each size bucket is larger than the spread between them. Translation: a 40-unit fleet with good process beats a 400-unit fleet with bad process. This is the most consistent finding we see.

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