what does your company fleet use?

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I was looking in the one of the nypd precinct garages a while ago and saw a drum of petro canada. The other day in another precinct i saw service pro full synthetic. Probably use service pro filters like most of ny..
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Our vans are scattered all over Houston and other neighboring counties. GMC/Chevys - they usually use what ever bulk oil is at the GM dealers closest to them.
 
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The KCPD uses bulk Castrol GTX dino 5w20 and Motorcraft filters. Around 900 cars I believe. I don't know what they use in the few vehicles we have that are not Ford products but my guess would be they dump the same in those too.
 
I use VIOC for my fleet van, 5W20 Maxlife & Valvoline filter religiously every 5K. No problems, nor consumption of any kind, the '12 E-250 just turned over 86K on Friday. Unfortunately the rest of the van is aging rapidly, transmission bangs between gears, steering gearbox is also noisy & failing. Hoping they don't renew the lease when it's up at 100K.
 
Our small vehicle fleet is mostly Ford E-Series vans and Rangers, most of which call for 5W-20. There are a few Chevy Astro vans and Dodge minivans in there too. They get this oil along with Carquest Red filters at 5000 mile OCIs.



Our larger trucks are Internationals. They get the same brand 15w40 at 10,000 mile OCIs. They get OEM filters from the International dealer, which surprisingly are cheaper than getting anything else.
 
Bulk 5W30 in our GMT800 local delivery trucks. It's a Shell oil we get from a bulk supplier out of TN. We have had multiple trucks go 400K+ miles on it...4.3s, 4.8s, and 5.3s. Between changes, they get topped off with AC Delco 5W30. I believe this is also what our C6500 with a 454 gets.

Our International with a DT466E gets Delo 400.
 
The Company Ford transit i drive has a lease plan. I take it to Valvoline Instant oil change every 5k miles. They fill it with 5w20 maxlife and valvoline filter. 75k miles on it all put on by me, mostly reeming the snot out of it. doesn't use a drop, and looks like brand new down the fill hole.
 
I'm assuming its QSGB and a Motomaster (Fram) filter; that's what the shop bulk oil is (Canadian Tire).
 
The cheapest stuff they can buy, serviced as per the manufacturer, which for most of our vehicles is 15,000km. If another oil supplier offers a cheaper deal, they switch. Doesn't seem to worry the vehicles, they all go 100,000km plus with next to no oil related failures.
 
Mobil Delvac 15w40 & 10w30 - otr engines
Mobil DTE ND30 - pumps
Mobil special 5w20 in the ford 5.4/5.0s

That all changed from shell rotella and formula shell not too long ago. I like the Delvac but I'm not a fan of the mobil special.
Carquest (wix) and Donaldson filters
 
our very small fleet of 3500 GM vans and 1500 Silverados get whatever synthetic and filter is on sale changed by the OLM since 2004.

Engines are all 5.3 and 6.0 V8's. Routinely sold at extremely high mileages, last unit had over half a million on it!
 
Whatever I can get drums of at a decent price.
ATM, we have two drums of Eco Power, a re-refined oil, in 5W-20 and 5w30. This ran about $385.00/drum.
I've bought Kendall and we've used plenty of Service Pro.
I've seen 190-200K Ford 4.6s opened up after years of Service Pro and they looked really clean, so it may be that regular maintenance matters more than choice of oil.
One of these engines need valve guide seals and the other a timing chain.
 
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