Bus and Fleet Vehicle Repair for Tustin Operators

A district transportation yard in Tustin does not have a downdraft paint booth, and a city corp yard does not have a frame rack. That gap is what this building fills. OCRV Center is a 35,000 sq ft shop on La Palma Ave in Yorba Linda, a short run up the 55 and across the 91, and the fleet bays here take buses, ambulances, fire apparatus, tow rigs and service bodied trucks for one narrow band of work.

Worth saying plainly, because it saves a call: engine work and drive system work are not performed at this address. Your own garage, dealer or apparatus service center keeps that. What arrives here is sheet metal, aluminum, fiberglass, composite panel, glass, doors, floors, seating, compartment hardware, striping and every bracket that holds mounted equipment to a vehicle. That is the whole list, and it has been the whole list for a long time.

Fleet owners tend to arrive with two questions, cost and calendar. Both are answerable in a first walk around, and both get answered before anything is torn down.

These four share one structural fact: the passenger compartment is a structure in its own right, riveted, bolted or bonded to a chassis somebody else engineered. Damage crosses that boundary far more often than a first walk around suggests, and the crossing point is where an honest estimate gets written.

• School Buses, Type A, C and D, riveted steel skin running between rub rails, and skirt panels that meet every driveway apron in the district.
• Transit Buses, low floor coaches with bonded composite side panels and a ramp aperture that has to stay square or the door will not seal.
• Shuttle Buses, cutaway coach bodies on a van or truck cab, fiberglass caps front and rear, luggage bays under the floor line.
• Paratransit Vans, lowered floor conversions, lift and ramp mounting, and floor track anchorage that has to carry a loaded chair.

Public safety units carry mounted equipment worth more than the body wrapped around it, and they are judged by one number: how fast the unit goes back on the board. Repair sequencing on these vehicles is planned around that number, not around bay convenience.

• Fire Engines and Fire Trucks, welded aluminum compartment boxes, roll up shutters, diamond plate and high gloss red.
• Ambulances, Type I, II and III modules, the cab boot, and a patient compartment that has to come back cleanable.
• Police Vehicles, sedan, SUV, utility and command builds with push bumpers, cage partitions and console mounts.
• Command and Emergency Vehicles, mast, antenna and shore power penetrations that all have to be resealed after body work.
• Tow Trucks, wrecker body and carrier deck damage, sub frame mounting, toolbox and light work.

Municipal trucks live a low speed, high contact life. The damage that shows up here is rarely a highway impact. It is a compartment door bent against a bollard, a fender crushed by a loader bucket, a corroded rocker under a salt or slurry body, a cracked weld at a torsion point. Nine of the eighteen pages in this category sit in this group.

• Municipal Fleet Vehicles, mixed light and medium duty units on one purchase order.
• Refuse and Recycling Trucks, packer body panels, hopper skin and tailgate hinge repair.
• Street Sweepers, hopper shell, broom housing and water tank mount work.
• Utility Trucks, service body install, compartment door and shelf repair.
• Bucket Trucks, boom rest, outrigger pad, body and platform cosmetic repair.
• Snow Plow Trucks, plow frame mounting, hitch plate and corrosion treatment.
• Water and Sewer Maintenance Vehicles, reel body, hose bed and tank cradle repair.
• Traffic Signal Maintenance Vehicles, aerial body, ladder rack and lighting install.
• Forestry and Parks Maintenance Vehicles, chip body, dump bed and cab guard repair.

Fleet collision repair and paint refinish is posted at $1,500 to $50,000 across a range of 10 to 250 hours, and that spread is real: a scuffed quarter and a rolled coach are the same line item on the price sheet. Every posted band lives on the prices page.

Equipment side, a service body or utility body install runs $2,500 to $15,000 at 15 to 60 hours, and a pre trip cosmetic and structural body inspection is $250 to $600 at 1 to 3 hours. Body and paint labor is billed at $210 per hour, mechanical and electrical at $260 per hour, with paint supplies at $55 per paint hour and body supplies at $5 per body hour.

Jobs over $2,000 take a 50 percent deposit at authorization. Jobs over $10,000 take an additional 25 percent when parts land. Final balance is due at pickup. Sales tax of 7.75 percent applies to parts and materials; labor is not taxed. There is no charge for insurance walk ins.

Most Tustin fleets run up the 55 to the 91 and come east, or take the 5 to the 57 when the 91 is stacked. Doors are open Monday to Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday 9:30am to 3:00pm, closed Sunday, and a Saturday drop is how a lot of agencies avoid pulling a unit out of a weekday rotation.

OCRV Center is licensed BAR ARD00288521 and EPA CAL000367879, and handles roughly 20 collisions a month alongside 50 to 100 paint jobs. Carriers including Progressive, State Farm, Mercury, Liberty Mutual and Wawanesa are billed direct, and self insured agencies are billed on a purchase order. Bring the unit by, or start with a Request a Quote. We stand behind our work.