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 the source behind every call.

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.