Maintenance Tips
Maintenance Tips
Maintenance Tips for Owner Operators
Maintenance is an important part of a truck driver’s daily life. A truck driver with a broken-down truck truly can’t complete their job. It’s paramount to have a reliable truck to have a successful career as an owner-operator. Here are some easy ways to maintain your truck and help take care of your rig and keep you on the road.
How to Sanitize Your Semi
Keeping a Semi Truck clean is a big job and an even bigger job during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Truckers already spend a significant amount of time on the road, which means a truck’s cab can get dirty pretty quickly. It is more important now than ever to keep your truck clean to avoid the spread of germs to other people and to keep yourself healthy.
Gas Mileage Breakdown: How to Get the Best Miles Per Gallon
Fueling a truck for a long haul is quite costly. The trucking industry currently burns about 40 billion gallons of diesel in a year, and drivers play a significant role in this increased gas consumption. The government is already playing its part by introducing new...
Driving in Flooded Areas
If at all possible, avoid driving through flooded areas. Standing water can be much deeper than it first appears. Many drivers try to drive through water only to find that it is deep enough to pull their wheels off the road or flood their engine. This can mean weaving...
Basic Roadside Emergency Care You Should Know
Being constantly on the road means that you will experience a roadside maintenance stop at some point. With all the unexpected conditions of trucking, an eventual breakdown is something you should prepare for. Jumping a Dead Battery You may have jumped a...
A Quick Pre-Trip Inspection
Pre-trip inspections are a fact of life for over the road truckers. Because they are so common place, it can be easy to skimp on the inspection, but uncovering any damage or issues before you hit the road is a must and will save yourself a lot of time and money. Here...
Why Tire Inspections are Important
As it seems with everything in life, tires fail at the wort possible time. Staying in front of problems can save you a lot of time and headache. Every year, truckers put thousands upon thousands of mile on their trucks, and conversely, their tires. Bad tires...
The Importance of Aligning Your Truck
Shredding a tire can be one of the worst feelings while you are on the road, it slows you down and it’s just an overall pain. If you’ve noticed your steer tires getting eaten up a lot faster than they used to, you may want to check your alignment. Not every fleet...
What to Know About Tire and Wheel Balancing
Many people in the trucking industry are still undecided on the importance of tire and wheel balancing. In today’s day and age tires are manufactured to a much higher standard than they were in the past, allowing for much more uniform tires to be produced. Some think...
