heavy & duty · Sun Belt

Booking & Missed-Call Recovery for Truck A/C Repair

Redline Revenue installs the full system for truck A/C shops — tracked phone, missed-call text-back, online booking with vertical-specific intake, deposits, SMS reminders, and Google review automation. $397/mo flat. One sleeper a/c compressor replacement covers it.

Quick Answer

Truck A/C shops need a booking system because peak season is may–september and you can't return calls fast enough to keep up. Redline Revenue installs the full intake stack — missed-call text-back, online booking with vertical-specific fields, deposits, SMS reminders, and Google review automation — for $397/mo flat. $650–$2,400 avg tickets mean one captured job covers Defense by itself.

The Math

$650–$2,400 avg ticket × 1 job covers $397/mo.

Every job past that is pure upside. Peak season is May–September and you can't return calls fast enough to keep up.

$1,200

Sleeper A/C compressor replacement

$1,500

Carrier APU compressor + clutch

$2,200

Thermo King reefer evaporator coil

$3,800

Full reefer unit rebuild

What You Get

The full system, tuned for truck A/C shops

When a fleet dispatchers in 110°f yards calls during a job, they get a text inside 60 seconds. When they pick a slot, they pay a deposit. Reminders fire. Reviews happen. You don't touch the phone unless you want to.

Custom-Coded Website

Built around your specialty — real schema, real trade vocabulary, your actual service list. Not a Lato-template auto repair site.

Booking Calendar & Quote Request Form

Customers pick a time, describe the job, and upload photos. Vertical-specific intake fields capture exactly what you need before you roll a truck.

Missed Call Text-Back

When you can't answer, an auto-SMS fires inside 11 seconds. The lead doesn't have time to call the next shop.

Automated SMS Reminders

Confirmation, 24-hour, and 2-hour reminders. Deposits at booking. No-show rate drops from 23% to under 4%.

Webchat + Tracked Phone

Chat bubble routes to your phone as SMS. Tracked phone number tells you which ad dollar booked which job.

Smart Review Routing

Happy customers go to Google for a public review. Unhappy ones route to a private feedback form. Your star rating compounds without public damage.

Why truck A/C shops need a booking system

Truck A/C is a seasonal monopoly business. The phone barely rings November through March, then in April it goes off the hook and doesn't stop until October. The bottleneck isn't demand — it's intake. You can't answer 30 calls a day while you're in a bay swapping a Carrier APU compressor or recharging a TK reefer unit. Every unanswered call between May and September is a $1,000+ job that went to the next shop on Google.

Fleet accounts are the prize, and they buy on responsiveness more than price. A FedEx or Carvana dispatcher running a yard with 80 tractors needs a vendor who can respond in minutes, send a quote in hours, and have the rig back on the road by Friday. The shops winning those contracts have a quote-request form that captures unit number, fault code, and photos — not a 'leave a voicemail' line. That's a system, not a hustle.

The repeat economics on truck A/C are excellent if you don't drop the ball at intake. A reefer rebuild is $1,800–$2,800. An APU compressor swap is $1,400. A full evaporator replacement on a Volvo or Freightliner sleeper is $1,200. Capture the work systematically — bilingual intake form, deposit at booking, SMS reminders — and the calendar fills itself in peak months. Defense pays for itself in the first week of June.

The structural pain we fix

  • Peak season is May–September and you can't return calls fast enough to keep up

  • FedEx, Carvana, Penske dispatchers call three shops the same hour — last to respond loses the contract

  • Reefer units down on a Friday afternoon = $40K of cargo at risk and you missed the ring

  • No bilingual intake form means half your Spanish-speaking owner-operators bounce before they book

Where we install it

Truck A/C Repair markets we cover

Built for truck A/C shops across the Sun Belt. See your city's page for vertical-specific market context, FAQs, and economics.

Pricing

$397/mo. Month-to-month. One-email cancel.

Full Throttle (Google Search ads + LSA management) is an optional +$600/mo add-on, available only to Defense clients after Day 30. See full pricing.

Profitable in 60 days — or we work free until you are.

Every missed call is a truck a/c repair job that went to the next Google result.

20-minute call. We'll tell you inside the first 5 whether you're a fit. If you're not, we'll tell you who is.