Professional Truck & Trailer Repairs
Professional Truck & Trailer Repairs
Heavy-duty transmissions don’t usually fail without warning. They start slipping out of gear, hanging on the shift, grinding when you split a low-side gear, or running a few degrees hotter than they should. Catch it early and you’re looking at a clutch adjustment or a rebuild. Ignore it and you’re looking at a tow, a replacement, and a week off the road.
Top Rides is a full-service truck repair shop at 9640 Sidney Hayes Rd in Orlando, FL — about ten minutes from the Orlando International Airport off the 417. We handle semi truck transmission repair, commercial truck transmission repair, and full transmission replacement for owner-operators and fleets across Central Florida. If you searched “semi truck transmission repair near me” or “truck transmission repair Orlando FL” and ended up here, you’re in the right place. Call (407) 591-6747 and we’ll get you scheduled or rolling a tow.
We service manual and automatic heavy-duty transmissions across all the common platforms:
Trucks we see most often: Freightliner Cascadia, Kenworth T680/T880, Peterbilt 579/389, Volvo VNL, Mack Anthem, International LT, and Western Star 4900/5700. Box trucks, dump trucks, and Class 5–8 commercial work trucks too.
You don’t need to know exactly what’s wrong — that’s our job — but these are the symptoms that send most drivers to the shop:
Bring it in before any of those turn into a no-shift situation on I-4. Diagnostics on a heavy-duty transmission usually run an hour or two on the laptop plus a road test.
Three different jobs, three different price points. Here’s the honest breakdown:
Repair — for a specific failed component: clutch pack, shift fork, sensor, solenoid, range or splitter cylinder, input or output shaft seal. Fastest turnaround, lowest cost. Most jobs go out in 1–3 days depending on parts.
Rebuild — when the case is good but enough internals are worn or damaged that fixing one thing means fixing six. We pull the unit, tear it down, replace bearings, synchros, gears, seals, and clutch components, then reassemble to spec. Usually 5–10 business days.
Replacement — when the case is cracked, the damage is catastrophic, or a reman unit makes more sense than a rebuild. We source new, reman, or quality used units from suppliers we’ve worked with for years and stand behind the install.
We’ll tell you which one your truck needs after diagnostics, with the actual numbers. No upsell to a rebuild when a clutch and a fork will do the job.
If your old unit is past saving, semi truck transmission replacement is its own conversation. We’ll pull the old transmission, inspect the bell housing, flywheel, and rear main for collateral damage (you don’t want to drop a rebuilt unit into a truck with a leaking rear main), source the right replacement, and install it with a new clutch if yours is anywhere near worn. Most replacements in Orlando, FL go out the door in under a week if the part is in the region.
We don’t post fake “starting at” prices because heavy-duty transmission work doesn’t work that way. A clutch adjustment is a couple hundred dollars. A full Eaton Fuller 18-speed rebuild is several thousand. A reman Allison install is somewhere in between. We give you a real number after the diagnostic and we don’t add to it without calling first.
Call (407) 591-6747 or come by 9640 Sidney Hayes Rd, Orlando, FL 32824. Open Monday–Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM. If your truck is stuck somewhere in Central Florida, ask about our towing — we can get you in the bay the same day in most cases.
Depends on the job. A sensor or solenoid is often same-day. A clutch replacement is usually 1–2 days. A full rebuild runs 5–10 business days, mostly waiting on parts. We’ll give you a realistic timeline once we know what we’re dealing with.
Yes. We’ve got the diagnostic software for Volvo, Detroit, Mack, and the major OEMs. Most “transmission” issues on AMTs are actuator, sensor, or software problems, not gearbox failures, and we can tell the difference.
Yes. We work with fleet operators across Central Florida and can set up direct invoicing and multi-truck scheduling. Call and ask for fleet service.
Both. If your transmission is past rebuilding, we’ll source a quality reman or used unit and handle the full install, including clutch and any related driveline work.
9640 Sidney Hayes Rd, Orlando, FL 32824. We serve Orlando, Kissimmee, Apopka, Sanford, Winter Garden, St. Cloud, and the rest of Central Florida. Towing available if you can’t get the truck to us.
Yes — ASE-certified diesel technicians with years of heavy-duty experience.
Top Rides – Truck Repair Shop Orlando
9640 Sidney Hayes Rd
Orlando, FL 32824
Phone: (407) 591-6747
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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