All-in-One Engine Care: Caltex Lubricants Services for Monitoring & Maintaining Fleet Health

When it comes to heavy-duty diesel fleets, commercial vehicles or industrial equipment, keeping engines — and by extension the entire machine — healthy isn’t a one-time job. It requires a holistic, data-driven lubrication and maintenance strategy to keep fleets operating efficiently and ensure that uptime improves and unexpected breakdowns and costs are kept at bay.

This is where the Caltex Lubricants suite of services comes in. Apart from providing world-class engine oils and fluids, Caltex supports businesses with monitoring tools, diagnostic programs, and digital solutions that help maximize engine life and reduce total operating costs.

Here’s how Caltex’s services combine to create an “all-in-one” engine care solution.

LubeWatch Oil Analysis: Data-Backed Insights for Smarter Fleet Maintenance ⍈

Caltex’s LubeWatch Oil Analysis Program is designed to give fleet operators deep visibility into engine and equipment health. According to maintenance data from oil analysis program users:

• 80% maximise equipment uptime through regular oil analysis
• 77% say using oil analysis insights improves maintenance planning and results in more reliable equipment performance
• 69% have extended oil drain intervals up to two times longer using oil analysis results
• 80% report that scheduled downtime saves significant money compared to unexpected equipment failures

For fleets operating in transport, logistics, construction, mining, and heavy industry, these numbers underline one truth: oil analysis isn’t optional — it’s essential.

What this means for fleet operators:

• Early detection of wear, contamination, fuel dilution, and coolant leaks
• Better maintenance decisions backed by laboratory data
• Longer component life and fewer catastrophic failures
• Optimised drain intervals for reduced maintenance cost
• Increased operational reliability across mixed fleets

LubeWatch helps businesses shift from break-fix maintenance to predictive, condition-based maintenance, ensuring every truck, loader, hauler, or excavator stays productive for longer.

Strategic Lubrication Planning: Best‑In‑Class Assessment (BIC) ⍈

Today’s equipment is more complex, more expensive, and more demanding than ever. Specifications keep changing, duty cycles are harsher, and the margin for error is shrinking. That’s why using the right lubricant, at the right time, in the right way is essential for keeping fleets reliable and productive.

Yet most equipment never performs to its full potential, and it is observed by experts that many assets run below OEM-designed reliability levels and companies struggle to meet their reliability and runtime KPIs. As Noria Corporation reports, 82% of component failures are a result of lubricant contamination.

Lubricants are only 3% of total cost, but poor lubrication practices can have a massive impact on performance, toppling overall costs due to unscheduled maintenance and firefighting equipment breakdowns

Caltex’s Best-In-Class (BIC) Assessment is built to fix this.

BIC evaluates your entire lubrication program and identifies where reliability, efficiency, and cost savings are being lost.

It helps fleets with:

• Full evaluation of lubrication practices — from product selection and storage to dispensing and oil-change intervals.
• Identification of inefficiencies or risk areas: maybe you’re using the wrong fluid, or your storage/handling practices are sub-optimal.
• Recommendations that can reduce maintenance costs by up to 37%, while improving equipment reliability and uptime.
• Better alignment with safety, environmental, and operational KPIs — a must in industries focused on sustainability and long-term value.

The 5 Elements of a Best-In-Class Lubrication Program

1. Product Selection – Ensures every component gets the correct lubricant for its load, environment, and OEM requirements.
2. Product Integrity – Examines storage, transfer and dispensing to prevent contamination — the cause of 82% of failures.
3. Optimized Lubricant Intervals – Aligns oil changes with real equipment conditions to avoid both under- and over-maintenance.
4. Inventory & Vendor Management – Reduces SKU complexity, improves purchasing efficiency and prevents overstocking.
5. Lubrication Program Management – Checks processes, responsibilities and documentation to improve consistency and reliability.

At the end of the assessment, you receive a clear, actionable report outlining:

• Strengths and improvement opportunities
• A plan to achieve reliability, uptime and KPI goals
• A Best-in-Class benchmark showing how your lubrication program compares to industry leaders

In short, BIC transforms lubrication from a routine task into a strategic performance driver that protects assets, boosts availability, and improves the bottom line.

Right Products for the Right Job: Caltex Product Selector ⍈
Choosing the correct lubricant for each equipment type is critical. A truck engine has different needs compared to hydraulic systems, gearboxes, or off-road machinery. The Product Selector takes the guesswork out:

• Caltex offers a comprehensive range — engine oils, transmission fluids, gear oils, greases, hydraulic oils, coolants — to cover virtually any application across trucks, buses, industrial machinery, marine engines, and more.
• Using the Product Selector ensures each part of your system gets precisely what it needs — maximizing performance and life span, while reducing risks associated with incorrect lubricants.

By matching lubricant specs to operational demands, you take a proactive step in preventing breakdowns, wear, and costly downtime.

Delo Fuel Economy Calculator: Maximise Fleet Savings ⍈
Fuel is one of the largest operational costs for fleets in transport, logistics, construction, and heavy-duty industries. The Caltex Delo Fuel Economy Calculator helps fleet operators estimate the potential savings from using advanced Delo engine oils — without compromising engine protection or durability.

How It Works

The process is simple and data-driven:

1. Input fleet details – number of vehicles, average kms per litre, average kms driven per truck per year and average price of diesel fuel per litre. 
2. Calculate potential savings – the tool estimates percentage fuel cost savings, new kms per litre per truck and estimated annual cost savings across the fleet.

Key Benefits

• Identify fuel savings per vehicle and across your fleet
• Understand the impact of switching to premium, fuel-saving lubricants
• Reduce overall fuel consumption and implement cleaner operations

With this tool, fleet managers can make informed, data-driven decisions to improve fuel efficiency, reduce operating costs, and enhance sustainability across their operations.

Putting It All Together: A Unified and Proactive Engine Care Philosophy
What makes Caltex’s engine care offering stand out is integration. It’s not about selling engine oil. It’s about building a complete maintenance ecosystem that:

• Monitors engine health and lubricant condition consistently
• Evaluates and optimizes your lubrication practices
• Matches the right lubricant to each component or machine
• Drives fuel efficiency and sustainability

The result: fewer breakdowns, longer engine & equipment life, fewer unplanned stoppages, lower operating costs — and a fleet built for reliability, performance and profitability. Contact a Caltex lubricants representative to employ any of these services for your fleet.