Depending on the type of business you own, your fleet vehicles might be daily drivers—like sedans and economy compacts—or larger work trucks—like heavy duty pickups or tractor trailers. But no matter the type of fleet vehicles you have in your lot, they all require routine maintenance to ensure they run strong and last a long […]
Every experienced commercial vehicle owner knows the importance of checking tire pressure; optimal tire pressure ensures the highest levels of safety and efficiency. What a lot of people don’t take into consideration, however, is how much your load can affect what the proper tire pressure is. The tire manufacturer actually defines the ideal tire pressure […]
Choosing tires for a commercial vehicle used to be a much simpler task because there were only a few options to choose from. Today, however, tire manufacturers have recognized the importance of designing and modifying commercial tires to meet specific performance needs to a perfection, which means there are an overwhelming number of tire options […]
The average cost for operating a semi truck is about $1.38 per mile, which doesn’t sound too painful until you realize that $1.38 per mile amounts to an annual cost of $180,000. Although the trucking industry is a profitable one, at such high operating costs, there is a fine line between profit and losses if […]
We’ve all seen it happen—the semi-truck driver going 65 down the freeway when suddenly all you see is a cloud of smoke and tire pieces flying all over the road. Tire failure is a common occurrence in the trucking industry, but the fact that it’s common doesn’t make replacing semi truck tires any less annoying […]