# Fleet, equipment repair & towing tenders and contracts across Canada

By: CrewBid Team. Live open bids and numbers: https://crewbid.tech/trades/fleet-repair

Towns, regional districts, school districts, transit agencies and crown corporations run fleets of pickups, buses, loaders, graders and mowers, and many send the servicing, repairs or towing out to local shops. These contracts are steady work for repair shops and tow operators near the buyer's yards.

## Who buys fleet repair and towing?

- **Municipalities and regional districts**, for light duty servicing, heavy equipment repairs their own shop can't handle, and towing of city vehicles or abandoned cars.
- **School districts**, for bus and maintenance vehicle servicing.
- **Police and bylaw services**, for towing and impound contracts by zone.
- **Federal and provincial sites**, for vehicles at parks, ports and yards.

## What does the work include?

Scheduled servicing (oil, filters, brakes, tires), commercial vehicle inspections, diagnostics and repairs, hydraulic and engine work on heavy equipment, mobile repair at the buyer's yard, and towing on call. Towing contracts set zones, response times, storage rates and how vehicles are released to owners.

## How is it priced?

Repairs are usually an hourly shop rate plus parts at cost or a set markup, with a rate for mobile service and after-hours call-outs. Servicing is often a fixed price per vehicle type. Towing is priced per tow by vehicle class, plus a daily storage rate, and the contract usually runs two to five years.

## What do you need to bid?

Licensed technicians (journeyperson or Red Seal for heavy equipment), a shop close enough to the buyer's yards, the right inspection facility designation if commercial vehicle inspections are in scope, garage and liability insurance, and a safety program. Towing tenders ask for truck sizes, a secure storage lot and guaranteed response times.

## When do these tenders come out?

Servicing and towing contracts come up when their term ends, often in winter for a spring start. Heavy equipment repairs are tendered as one-off jobs when a machine goes down or before the snow season.

See [general maintenance and handyman work](https://crewbid.tech/trades/handyman) for other work buyers send out to local businesses.

## Sources

- [Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement (Government of BC)](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/vehicle-safety-enforcement)
- [Heavy Duty Equipment Technician (Red Seal)](https://www.red-seal.ca)