An articulated haul truck lives or dies by its hinge — the articulation hitch that lets it pivot through soft, rutted haul roads is also the joint that wears, and it's rarely the thing a calendar service remembers in time. Articulated haul truck maintenance software fixes that by running every service on engine hours, keeping the hitch, driveline and brakes on a schedule per truck, and holding the full repair and parts history where a planner can actually use it. When a service comes due or a defect turns into a repair, it's a tracked work order, not a note on a whiteboard. Book a demo to see a truck's maintenance record live.
Articulated Haul Truck Maintenance Software
Engine-hour PM, articulation-hitch and 6×6 driveline service, and full work-order history — one maintenance record per truck, so services never slip.
An articulated truck isn't a rigid rock hauler — it bends in the middle, drives all six wheels, and works the kind of soft, uneven ground that punishes a hinge, a driveline and a set of struts. Its maintenance is specific, and it runs on hours, not a calendar. Tie an articulated haul truck service to a date and you'll grease the hitch too late and change driveline oil too early on half the fleet.
The maintenance points on an ADTwhere articulated haul truck maintenance software keeps a schedule
The components that drive an ADT's maintenance program are specific to a hinged, all-wheel-drive machine — and the big-cost ones hide in the driveline and the hitch. Articulated haul truck maintenance software holds a service schedule for every one of these on the truck's own record.
This is the maintenance side of the machine — separate from the pre-shift checks covered on our articulated dump truck inspection software, this page is about the service schedule and the records behind it. HVI runs it on a configurable preventive maintenance system. Book a demo to see an ADT service schedule.
Maintenance by engine hourswhy an articulated haul truck PM schedule runs on hours, not the calendar
A truck hauling two shifts on a big earthworks job reaches its services far faster than one that sat through a wet week. Tie the schedule to a date and you'll service one truck too early and the next too late. Articulated haul truck preventive maintenance fires on engine hours per machine — hitch grease, driveline oils and the big services all ride the same clock. Here's the ladder the software should drive for you.
Set it once and the software counts the hours for you, so a maintenance management workflow raises each service as a scheduled work order instead of a missed one. You can start a free trial and load your own hour schedules in an afternoon.
The ADT maintenance software checklistwhat to require before you standardize on a platform
Score any shortlist against this before you commit. These are the capabilities that decide whether software actually runs your ADT maintenance program — or just stores a form. A tool worth standardizing on should tick nearly every line.
A platform that meets these runs the program instead of filing it, as part of the wider construction equipment maintenance HVI supports, with parts and inventory tied to each job. You can start a free trial and build an ADT schedule in an afternoon.
Where ADT maintenance actually hidesthe hitch and 6×6 driveline a generic PM plan under-services
The reason an ADT needs its own schedule isn't the engine — it's the two systems a rigid-truck plan ignores: the articulation hitch and the all-wheel driveline. Both wear on hours, both are expensive to put right once neglected, and both are easy to under-service on a one-size plan.
Pins, bearings and steering cylinders take the full twist of the load on uneven ground. On schedule, it's grease and a check; off schedule, it's play, then a pin kit, then downtime. Software keeps the greasing interval and the wear history on the record so a slipping joint is caught as a trend, not a breakdown.
Differentials, final drives and driveshafts all carry oil that degrades on hours and hauls. Miss a driveline service and the repair is an order of magnitude bigger than the oil change. Software holds each driveline interval per truck and raises it as a work order with the parts already listed.
Keeping these two on hours is the difference between a planned spend and a surprise one — and it's what a connected program delivers over a paper book. For the pre-shift side of the same machine, see the pre-shift ADT inspection workflow. Book a demo to see the driveline schedule.
The record you're actually buyingwhat an articulated haul truck looks like inside the platform
What you're evaluating is this view: the truck's hours, its next services, its open work orders and the parts and cost against them — the single maintenance record a planner reads to build the week.
When the planner builds the week, they read this record and the analytics and reporting dashboard behind it — which turns the whole ADT fleet's services and cost into the numbers the maintenance meeting runs on.
From an earthworks fleet manager on digitizing the ADTs
Our articulated trucks were on a calendar PM, and it was always wrong — the busy ones blew past their hours and the hitch greasing slipped, the quiet ones got serviced for no reason. The driveline was the one that hurt: we lost a final drive because the oil change sat on a list nobody actioned. Once the schedule ran on engine hours and every service came up as a work order with the parts attached, the surprises stopped. Now I can see the next service and the open jobs on every truck, and the cost-per-hour is a real number instead of a guess.
Articulated haul truck maintenance FAQs
What is articulated haul truck maintenance software?
How is this different from ADT inspection software?
Can it schedule PM by engine hours instead of calendar?
Does it cover the articulation hitch and driveline service?
How long until it's running on our trucks?
Run the whole ADT fleet on hours, not guesswork
Articulated haul truck maintenance software turns a calendar guess into one maintenance record per truck — every service on its hours, the hitch and driveline held on schedule, and each repair tracked from defect to parts to sign-off. Bring the demo, load your schedules, and stop losing trucks to a service that slipped.
