The Mobile Oil Change Podcast
What happened in the oil change world today - and what it means for your van.
Tyreese breaks down base-oil markets, quick-lube consolidation, technician labor trends, and fleet tech - the operator playbook from 13 years running MOMS Mobile Oil Change in Philadelphia.
The Archive
7:2810:497:248:379:1610:54October Is the Trust Month - October 11, 2026
Marcus, Zoe, and David on ASE's pre-winter checklist, the Brakes for Breasts cause-marketing campaign running all October, and the Calgary glass shop making ADAS camera calibration standard — why October is the independent shop's trust-building month.
6:54Gas Price Records and 13-Year-Old Cars - October 10, 2026
AAA reports record-high October gas prices as the AAPEX media guide pegs the average American car at nearly 13 years old. Marcus, Zoe, and David on what record fuel prices mean for maintenance demand, fleet math, and the independents who already do 72% of the repair work.
8:316:38The Tech Gap - October 8, 2026
Tyreese digs into the AAPEX student engine-teardown competition and the one-point-two-million-tech shortage - why the labor gap is a mobile oil change operator's recruiting edge, and how to build your own pipeline instead of fighting Ford over the same techs.
5:32The Fleet Bundle - October 7, 2026
Tyreese breaks down the Kooner Fleet Management + Global Partners fuel-and-maintenance partnership (Oct 6) and FuelFox's move into consumer mobile fueling — why the fleet yard is the new service bay, and why operators should partner, not become the fueler.
5:55The Wrench Went to the Pros - October 6, 2026
Tyreese breaks down Advance Auto Parts' numbers: DIY sales down double digits while the pro channel grows — why the home-garage oil changer is disappearing, why that's demand moving to mobile operators, and the October Fall Car Care Month playbook to capture it.
6:03Car Wash Money Is Coming for Oil Changes - October 5, 2026
Tyreese breaks down private-equity car wash firm QC Capital launching the Cruz Express Oil brand, CNBC's report on shops charging software fees just to reset oil lights, and AAA's twelve-thousand-eight-hundred-dollar-a-year ownership number — and why the driveway is the moat money can't buy.
7:096:086:076:246:32Car Wash Money Moves Into Oil Changes - September 30, 2026
Tyreese breaks down QC Capital's Cruz Express Oil launch - a car-wash private equity firm stepping into express oil change in Atlanta - and why capital keeps converging on the oil change bay while mobile operators hold the driveway.
6:08The Hundred-and-Seven-Dollar Barrel: Oil Prices Spike Again - September 29, 2026
Brent crude jumped back over a hundred dollars a barrel after the weekend's failed Hormuz deal — Tyreese breaks down what it means for van fuel costs, input pricing, and how mobile operators should price through the chaos.
0:487:007:55When Stellantis Changed the Recipe - September 27, 2026
Tyreese breaks down Stellantis switching dealer bulk oil from zero W twenty to five W twenty and shortening intervals to seven thousand five hundred miles, the customer unbundling of oil and labor, Fleetio's AI Service Advisor, and the operator playbook for a rule change mid-game.
6:28Shell Sells Jiffy Lube: The One Point Three Billion Dollar Shake-Up - September 26, 2026
Tyreese breaks down Monomoy Capital's one point three billion dollar buyout of Jiffy Lube from Shell, why Big Oil is exiting the service bay, what private equity does with nineteen million customers a year, and the playbook for mobile operators.
7:523:366:315:505:20Straight talk from the truck
The original Mobile Oil Change Podcast is back — a daily briefing for mobile oil change business owners: industry news, margins, and straight talk from the truck.