Whip Around Launches Advanced Maintenance, Connecting Fleet Inspections with AI-Powered Shop-Floor Execution

Expanded capabilities help fleets improve maintenance accuracy, understand asset costs, and apply automation to optimize fleet performance.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Whip Around, the trusted fleet maintenance and compliance software platform, today announced Advanced Maintenance, expanding its connected inspection and maintenance capabilities to help fleets coordinate shop-floor work, capture actual labor costs, and turn fleet data into more informed maintenance decisions.

Whip Around connects mobile-friendly inspections with preventive maintenance schedules, work orders, and service history across vehicles, equipment, and multiple telematics systems. Advanced Maintenance deepens that connection by bringing technician scheduling, labor tracking, cost-based approvals, and AI-assisted review into the same workflow. Teams gain a clearer view of what needs attention, who is responsible, and what it takes to return an asset to service.

"Fleets need more than a record of what happened. They need visibility and a system of intelligence that helps efficiently move work forward," said Noah Hickey, CEO of Whip Around. "Whip Around's easy-to-use platform simplifies life for drivers and equipment operators and delivers high-integrity inspection detail to the fleet maintenance teams. Whip Around's AI-powered platform helps maintenance teams efficiently assess defects and manage the end-to-end cycle. Fleets operate at higher performance levels when drivers and maintenance teams have high-integrity digitized workstreams working together in harmony, delivering higher safety performance, lower maintenance costs, and better employee retention."

Advanced Maintenance helps fleets:

• Connect fleet data to maintenance action. Bring inspection findings, asset information, and maintenance activity into a connected operational record. Teams can move identified issues through assignment, scheduling, approvals, and completion without manual entry while gaining clearer visibility across technicians and locations.
• Understand the maintenance costs that shape total cost of ownership. Capture actual labor time and costs alongside parts and service history to understand what it takes to maintain each asset. More complete maintenance records help inform repair and replacement decisions, while cost-based approvals provide greater control over spending.
• Make labor more visible and accountable. Schedule work across technicians and locations and record actual time against work orders. Managers gain a clearer view of the resources each job requires, helping them coordinate shop capacity and optimize workforce and schedules.
• Use AI to improve review and reduce manual work. Leverage AI to audit inspection photos for missed defects and damage, automate defect handling decisions based on predefined conditions, and automatically load work order invoices and receipts. These capabilities help teams reduce repetitive entry, improve record accuracy, and act on maintenance needs faster.
• Build a stronger data foundation for predictive maintenance. Connect inspection evidence, service history, and actual repair costs to create a more complete view of asset condition and maintenance activity over time. That history supports more informed preventive maintenance planning and establishes the data foundation needed for future predictive insights.

Together, these capabilities connect issue identification with the people, work, and costs required to resolve identified issues. Fleets can address maintenance needs earlier, coordinate execution more efficiently, and build a more reliable operational record to support safety, compliance, and asset readiness.

Built for increasingly complex fleet operations

Fleets are managing more assets, locations, technicians, vendors, and maintenance activity, often across disconnected systems. When inspection findings, labor records, and service costs are scattered, teams spend more time reconciling information and have less confidence in the data guiding operational decisions.

"Advanced Maintenance represents an important step toward a more intelligent and connected maintenance operation," said Shai Bhula, Chief Technology Officer at Whip Around. "Our approach is to use AI and automation to remove repetitive work while keeping people in control of the decisions that matter. By connecting inspection data, maintenance activity, and shop-floor execution in one platform, we can help fleets reduce administrative overhead, act on issues faster, and improve how maintenance work is completed."

About Whip Around

Whip Around is the trusted fleet maintenance and compliance platform that helps organizations turn safety and compliance into an operational advantage. Its AI-powered mobile and web tools connect inspections, maintenance, compliance, and fleet data so teams can identify issues, coordinate action, reduce downtime, and keep assets and drivers ready to work.

Whip Around works across the connected-vehicle and asset ecosystem, integrating with ELDs, telematics platforms, cameras, and other fleet technologies to provide a more complete operational view. The company serves vocational, freight, and passenger transportation fleets seeking greater visibility, control, and efficiency.

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