PLM Equipment Leasing Solutions for Fleet Optimization
Personalized Leasing Solutions to Customize Your Fleet Plan
PLM Fleet’s financial policy is built around flexibility, transparency, and cost control to save your business time and money. We offer clear, predictable leasing models, so you can budget confidently. With lease options from one to ten years available for refrigerated trailer equipment of all specs and design – including your unique configuration – PLM maximizes fleet flexibility. Developing a plan around your goals and managing to key metrics that define success for your fleet is what PLM does best. Leasing provides the financial support to execute your fleet strategy.
Why Lease?
- Walk-away lease options for known replacement plan
- Short-term equipment to fill seasonal fleet gaps
- Web-based management tools on MyPLM for fleet visibility across all locations
- Immediate inventory available in key markets across the nation
The PLM Fleet Expert Consulting Team provides comprehensive fleet reviews including benchmarking against 15,000 trailers with additional analytic resources for special projects unique to your fleet operations.
FMV (Fair Market Value) Leasing
Providing flexible leasing solutions to optimize refrigerated fleets to meet business needs.
Long term trailer leasing
- Flexible terms from 12 months to 10 years
- Match equipment to your contract
- Lease funding available for all trailer orders, regardless of the source
- Guaranteed disposition allows your fleet to be ready to take in new technology and meet new regulations
New equipment leases
- Customized to your fleet needs
- Includes decals, transport, complete title & license service
- Our Design & Application team of experts will craft a trailer specifically designed to meet your product and routing requirements
additional options
- Full-Service Maintenance
- ColdLink Telematics
- End of term flexibility: You can return the equipment, renew the lease, or purchase the equipment at its then-current fair market value
- Benefit from PLM’s optional maintenance structures, including full-service or managed maintenance programs
TRAC Leasing: Flexibility Without the Capital Commitment
Optimize fleet lifecycle, control costs, and retain financial flexibility with PLM Fleet’s TRAC Lease
TRAC leasing is a proven financing structure that combines the predictability of leasing with the financial flexibility. Partner with PLM Fleet and you can leverage TRAC leasing to maintain greater control over asset outcomes while preserving valuable capital.
TRAC leasing supports fleet strategies focused on flexibility, cost control, and long‑term equipment planning. Prioritize term flexibility with predictable lease cash flows. Assume asset risk in exchange for a more economical, flexible and open end lease. With an Open End Lease, we put you in control to manage the lease term to
your operation and business needs.
While you may know PLM as a refrigerated equipment provider, TRAC Leasing applies to flatbeds, dry and refrigerated trailers.
Open-End Lease Sructure
Equipment may be retained beyond the minimum lease term, allowing fleets to align usage with operational needs.
Open-End Lease Sructure
Predictable payments help reduce operating expenses and support budget certainty.
Open-End Lease Sructure
Obsolete equipment can be disposed of cost‑effectively and hassle-free at lease end.
Financial Planning Experts
The PLM Personalized Customer Solutions team is available to all customers to create custom opportunity assessments of your fleet – identifying cost savings and efficiencies from trailer design to disposition and everything along the lifecycle. The team can conduct an analysis with your fleet team and provide ongoing management through the PLM suite of web-based tools.
PLM’s strategic planning team takes a consumption-based approach for effective refrigerated fleet management and optimized replacement planning.
Flexibility: Lease options range from one to ten years.
Cost-Effective: We can compare your fleet against benchmark data to identify competencies and improve inefficiencies.
Versatility: Guaranteed disposition allows your fleet to be ready to take in new technology and meet changing regulations.
Fleet Planning Analysis Case Study
Fleet Planning Analysis: Customer wanted to evaluate the optimal life cycle of its fleet, based on usage, maintenance spend, lease payments, and warranties with the goal to reduce total fleet costs by 10%.
PLM Solution: Through segment benchmarking and scenario testing, it was determined a shorter replacement cycle would reduce downtime and maintenance expense that exceeded increased fixed costs in the fleet. Through tightly managed replacement strategies, the fleet achieved 13.7% cost reduction with an astounding 68% decrease in downtime.
PLM’s Cold Chain Fleet Solutions
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