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How Fleet Owners Can Miss a Simple Trick When Aiming for Maximum Productivity

by Roy West

You may be at the helm of a successful distribution company and have found that you can maximise your yield for a particular make and model of truck, to enable you to replicate using a fleet of identical vehicles. Of course, you're always looking for efficiencies and may think that you have exhausted your options with this lookalike fleet. However, you may be overlooking something relatively straightforward that could make a big difference to your bottom line.

Here, you will learn about truck wheel alignment and how you can take better care of your vehicles and your drivers if you apply the following advice.

In Balance?

You need to make each vehicle in your fleet its own successful profit centre and in order to do so, you do need to pay more attention to wheel alignment on a weekly or monthly basis.

Each truck goes through a set of tyres over a predictable lifespan and when new ones are fitted, they are properly balanced and adjusted for the road ahead. However, you may have noticed some inconsistencies as some vehicles seem to wear through their tyres more quickly than others, and you may wonder why this is the case, given your attention to detail. Almost invariably, this will be due to poor alignment as time goes by and as the original adjustments fail.

Dealing with Reality

If Australian roads were straight and true with a perfect surface, then wheel alignment would be far more predictable. However, this is a utopian situation that is not replicated in real life, and you will need to look at your wheel alignment far more often than you might have thought necessary.

If you don't, you will find it difficult to predict tyre replacement with any accuracy and not only that, you may find that some vehicles use more fuel than others. You may even hear more complaints from your drivers as they find it difficult to control their trucks because poor alignment causes them to pull to the side of the road instead.

Worthwhile Effort

When you pay close attention to each truck as a profit centre and wheel alignment as a priority, you will generate sizeable savings as you calculate your figures across the entire fleet. For more help and assistance, contact services that provide truck wheel alignment. They can likely come on-site and perform tests to determine any and all allignment issues.

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