SK-Kaivin improves fleet utilization with BussiPro's TruckCare service
SK-Kaivin introduced BussiPro's TruckCare service concept at the beginning of 2024 to improve the efficiency of its fleet of heavy duty vehicles. SK-Kaivin is a company specializing in excavation and rock construction in Huittinen. It offers excavation work, rock construction, underground excavation, shotcrete and tunneling work.
The TruckCare point is equipped with spare parts and supplies needed for daily work. SK-Kaivin's maintenance mechanic Johny Malm says that the point includes spare parts, including batteries for the whole feet. The quick availability of spare parts, instead of having to search for them in stores miles away, prevents downtime and ensures the continuous use of vehicles.
The TruckCare service is designed to improve the utilization rate of heavy equipment and reduce workshop days, which increases the productivity of vehicles. The aim of the service is to anticipate maintenance measures and ensure the quick availability of spare parts.
The service includes a TruckCare point, which enables the customer to continuously use their basic spare part stock in the workshop. The TruckCare point is tailored based on the customer's fleet, usage and maintenance programs.
TruckCare service reduces downtime and unexpected repair needs, which saves costs and improves fleet productivity.
"This has proven to be an excellent concept for our company, and I can recommend it to other companies," Malm says.
SK-Kaivin utilizes also BussiPro's Jaltest diagnostics, which covers trucks, trailers and excavation and earthmoving machines. BussiPro organized in-depth training for the company's personnel to ensure that the tool is put into effective use.
Ylijoki Metsäenergia Oy is a significant player in the field of recycling and biomass deliveries for sawmills, pulp mills and energy plants in southern and western Finland. In addition to logistics solutions, the company also provides the industry with chipping services off-road and in terminals.
The company operates 32 vehicle combinations and 15 chippers. The fleet also includes a number of wheel loaders and terminal machines.
“Our need for spare parts is considerable since we operate such a large number of vehicles and machines,” says Marko Ylijoki, who is responsible for fleet maintenance.
The partnership with BussiPro started years ago, when Ylijoki noticed a new player on the market and contacted BussiPro about spare parts and consumables. Since then, BussiPro has supplied Ylijoki Metsäenergia with replacement engines and spare parts for engines and brakes and provided maintenance and installation services for fire suppression systems.
BussiPro’s expertise, quality products and fast delivery have been the cornerstones of the long-standing partnership.
“We have received everything we needed quickly and reliably,” Ylijoki says with appreciation.
He recalls a good example of this: a situation when one of the company’s chippers suffered an engine failure. BussiPro delivered a replacement engine so quickly that the chipper was back in use on the work site within days.
Helokivi has found a solution together with BussiPro. Helokivi operates a fleet of nearly 100 units of tankers, shunters, construction machines and other heavy equipment around Southern Finland. Now the fleet is serviced in cooperation with BussiPro's TruckCare concept, which means that the most commonly required spare parts can be found in BussiPro's warehouse directly on the shelf in Helokivi's own service hall.