Design a preventive maintenance programme that keeps vehicles legal and out of the workshop at the wrong moment — intervals set by duty cycle, the inspection items that actually cause roadside failures, and the defect-reporting loop that closes. Use when asked to build a fleet maintenance schedule, set PM intervals, reduce breakdowns or roadside violations, or design a vehicle inspection programme. Produces the interval schedule by duty cycle, the inspection checklists by level, the defect-reporting and rectification loop, the parts and downtime planning, and the compliance record structure.
“Design a preventive maintenance schedule for our fleet”“How often should we inspect our vehicles?”“We keep failing roadside inspections — what should we change?”“Our drivers report nil defects every day — is that a problem?”“Build a defect reporting process for our fleet”
What to give it
▸The fleet — vehicle types, ages, mileages, and how each is actually used
▸The duty cycles — trunking, multi-drop, off-road, refrigerated, and their loading
▸Current position — existing intervals, breakdown history, and any roadside or inspection findings
▸The workshop — in-house or contracted, capacity, and lead times for parts
▸Your regulatory framework — the inspection frequency, record retention, and roadworthiness duties that apply where you operate
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Intervals differ by duty cycle rather than one fleet-wide number
✓Both time and distance triggers are used
✓The inspection list is informed by the fleet's own failure and roadside data
✓Nil-defect reporting rates are monitored for implausibility
✓Every step of the defect loop has a named owner and a timescale
✓Authority to take a vehicle off the road sits with a named role
✓Deferred defects require written justification
✓Recurring failures feed back into intervals or specification
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**One interval for the whole fleet.** Simultaneously wasteful and unsafe.
**Distance-only triggers.** Low-mileage vehicles corrode and go uninspected.
**A generic checklist.** Ignores what is actually failing on your vehicles.
**Celebrating a 100% nil-defect rate.** It means drivers are not really looking.
**A defect loop with no sign-off.** Reports vanish and the record shows compliance.
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp