April 22, 2026
How landscape contractors lose money on truck parts (and how to stop it)
The hidden cost of poorly tracked truck inventory — and a 30-day playbook to fix it.
Most contractors do not lose money on the cost of the part itself. They lose money on the trip back to the shop, the crew time spent looking, and the customer who waits while a $3 fitting holds up a $3,000 install. This post walks through how to set up truck-level inventory so that does not happen.