5 Questions With Rig Runner’s Jay Rincker

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Jay Rincker joined Rig Runner as its director of upkeep and asset administration earlier this yr. Previous to Rig Runner, Rincker was the director of upkeep with Jetco Supply. As an skilled technician and director, he shared a few of his ideas concerning the trucking business in addition to the restore and upkeep sector.

“I consider everybody desires to win or succeed,” Rincker stated. “My job is to take heed to the technicians and provides them the instruments to make that occur.”

What are your prime maintenance-related challenges, and the way are you working to beat them as director of upkeep?

My prime problem is getting the tools scheduled within the store for repairs as our world has been turning right into a extra “as wanted” and “on time” supply. One of the best ways I’ve been in a position to overcome that is working hand-in-hand with the dispatch staff to make everybody conscious of what will be out there for them to make use of on the deliberate routes. Our subsequent problem is ensuring that we’ve all of the components that shall be wanted for the providers or repairs. We’re in a position to overcome this by ensuring that we inventory the components that shall be wanted for the precise service or repairs earlier than the unit comes into the store.

With the emergence of electrical automobile fleets and a number of other advances in upkeep know-how, how does your staff navigate via these improvements to function extra effectively?

As of but we’ve not had expertise with the EV models. This can be a route that the business is heading and one which all of us will have to be educated on. We should leverage our know-how as a lot as we are able to to assist us make strong selections with repairs and with service intervals. The times of simply having one preventative upkeep merchandise for all the pieces has handed. We proceed to guage how our tools is getting used so we are able to have our tools on the street as a lot as doable, whereas preserving security a prime precedence.

What are probably the most urgent procurement points you’re encountering and the way have these issues been remedied? How do you domesticate your OEM and aftermarket companion relationships?

One of many greatest challenges for us in 2022 has been availability of components or buying tools. Now we have constructed robust relationships with our OEM companions and our distributors. Now we have seen our partnership with the aftermarket staff develop stronger as they’ve been in a position to step up and supply nice worth for us.

What’s your philosophy in main your group of technicians?

My philosophy has modified through the years because the technicians have continued to evolve. The principle factor I do is ask the staff what they should succeed, I be sure that we perceive that there are need to’s and need to’s and they aren’t the identical.

The very first thing we work on are the need to’s after which transfer on to the need to’s. Now we have to need to appropriate software program to work on the unit and do a correct prognosis and restore. Nonetheless, it is perhaps less expensive for us to ship a unit to a vendor for repairs because the ROI to buy the software program isn’t the place we wish to have it.

How do you envision the fleet upkeep and restore setting for industrial vehicles evolving within the subsequent 5 to 10 years?

The subsequent 5 to 10 years goes to be one other leap ahead for our business; after all there shall be some challenges, we had a studying curve when regeneration got here to our subject. To start with, we stumbled however the business picked itself up by doing the coaching together with enhancements to the system. We are actually all higher for it. We’ll undergo this once more because the emission programs proceed to enhance with greater requirements.

We’ll see electrical automobiles, pure gasoline automobiles and different hybrids make their method into the business. There shall be challenges on the technician facet because the overwhelming majority shall be experiencing one thing new. We’re naturally afraid of what we have no idea, or as I prefer to name it “the darkish.” These fleets that embrace the challenges of the brand new world have the chance to scale back prices and downtimes of models. Now we have seen how automated transmissions have gained a stronger footprint on our business and I don’t see that altering anytime quickly. I additionally see electrical automobiles actually pushing their method in to the sphere we’ve already seen this with firms preordering models. Now we have seen the business change over because it finds one of the simplest ways to do what is required and I see no cause consider that we’ll not proceed on this path.