Stop fighting fires. Start planning smarter. Bus CMMS automates your PM scheduling, streamlines work orders, and gives you real-time visibility into every maintenance task—so you can keep buses on the road and reduce costly downtime.
A maintenance planner is the backbone of efficient fleet operations—coordinating all preventive and corrective maintenance to keep buses safe, compliant, and on the road.
In bus fleet operations, maintenance planners are responsible for creating maintenance schedules, generating work orders, coordinating parts and labor, and ensuring DOT compliance. They act as the critical bridge between maintenance technicians and operations management.
The best practice ratio is 1 planner for every 15-20 technicians. With Bus CMMS automation, planners can effectively manage teams of 25-30 technicians while improving schedule compliance and reducing emergency repairs.
Everything you need to transition from reactive firefighting to proactive maintenance management.
Configure your preventive maintenance schedules once—Bus CMMS automatically tracks mileage, engine hours, and calendar dates through telematics integration. When service is due, work orders are auto-generated with pre-built job plans, parts lists, and labor estimates.
From request to completion—manage every work order with full visibility. Create detailed job plans, assign to technicians based on skills and availability, track labor time, and maintain complete service records for compliance.
See your entire team's workload at a glance. Assign work orders based on technician skills, certifications, and current capacity. Drag-and-drop to reassign, and the system automatically detects conflicts and overloads.
No more techs waiting for parts mid-job. When work orders are scheduled, Bus CMMS automatically checks parts availability, reserves inventory, and alerts you if anything is out of stock. Parts can be kitted and staged before work begins.
Technicians receive, update, and complete work orders from iOS/Android apps. Works offline and syncs when connected.
Driver inspection defects automatically create work orders with priority flags for immediate planner review.
Auto-import mileage, engine hours, and fault codes from Samsara, Geotab, Verizon Connect, and 50+ providers.
Complete maintenance history for every bus. Past repairs, costs, recurring issues, and warranty tracking.
Track PM compliance rates, work order completion times, technician productivity, and backlog trends.
Visual calendar with all DOT deadlines, annual inspections, certifications, and regulatory requirements.
Everything you need to know before getting started with Bus CMMS.
A maintenance planner schedules preventive and corrective maintenance, creates and assigns work orders to technicians, coordinates parts and resources, and ensures fleet availability while maintaining DOT compliance. They act as the bridge between maintenance teams and operations management, optimizing schedules to minimize downtime and maximize technician productivity.
You configure PM schedules once with triggers based on mileage, engine hours, or calendar intervals. Bus CMMS integrates with your telematics system to track real-time data and automatically generates work orders when service is due—complete with pre-built job plans, parts lists, and suggested technician assignments.
Maintenance planners typically save 60% of their planning time—that's 15-20 hours per week. The biggest savings come from automated PM generation, eliminating spreadsheet management, pre-built job plans, and real-time status updates that eliminate the need to walk the shop checking progress.
Yes. Bus CMMS offers native iOS and Android apps. Technicians receive work order notifications, view job details and parts lists, log labor time, add photos and notes, and mark work complete—all from their phones. The app works offline and syncs automatically when connected.
Yes. Bus CMMS integrates with 50+ telematics providers including Samsara, Geotab, Verizon Connect, GPS Trackit, and OEM systems like Blue Bird and Thomas Built. The integration automatically imports mileage, engine hours, fault codes, and GPS data for automatic PM triggers.
Join 500+ maintenance planners who've cut their planning time by 60% and reduced fleet downtime by 42%.