Maintaining a diverse fleet can be complicated, confounding and occasionally problematic. But there’s one thing it rarely is: boring. You need equipment that can keep up with the wide range of work happening in your bays, and you need it to last. In order to invest in...
There’s always plenty to do when you’re in charge of a fleet. In fact, there’s so much work that it’s easy to forget about stepping back and evaluating your fleet repair output. What things could you improve? That’s where we come in. We’ve...
This southern Indiana facility helps maintain a fleet of 165 school buses for the New Albany Floyd Consolidated School Corporation. If you maintain a fleet, you know that your primary job is being able to get vehicles serviced efficiently and back on the road, ready...
There’s a reason why regular two post and four post lifts are industry standards—they’re reliable and sturdy, and most techs are used to working with them. But in shops and dealerships that regularly deal with truck fleets, buses and vans, standard lifts...
You know the drill. If you’re changing tires, then odds are you’re also balancing those tires. The two go hand in hand. Do you have a reliable and safe wheel balancer ready to go for your techs? Any time you purchase new equipment, there are a lot of options and...
Tire margins are getting tighter every year. Selling tire protection is one way to regain the lost revenue caused by shrinking margins. Another way to increase your profitability is by selling alignments. But as most tire dealers will tell you, it’s not always easy....
Tire service can be a great way to create an additional revenue stream without blowing up your cycle times. Any time you add equipment to your shop, you want to make sure you’re getting your money’s worth on a product that’s safe and effective. When shopping for a...
If you were asked to name the most important pieces of equipment for fleet maintenance, we’re guessing tire changers wouldn’t be very high up on that list. After all, you don’t necessarily need one to change a tire. But it does beg the question: Why are you still...
In some shops, wheel and tire repair is offered as an add-on service. When customers come in for other issues, they get the benefit of a one-stop shop for all of their general maintenance needs. What those shop owners may not realize is there are many benefits to...
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