When a commercial big rig you are driving across the country has a mechanical failure in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma what are you going to do? Most over the road truck drivers put 100,000 miles on their trucks each year. Whether the truck is your or the company’s, that’s a lot of miles.
Even with the best preventative maintenance, breakdowns can and do still happen. However, if you know the major reasons why the big rigs breakdown on the highway, you can build a better preventive maintenance program and a better preventative maintenance schedule.
Carry this over to your pre-trip inspection plans and policies and you will have much less chance of an on-road breakdown. If you don’t do this and you cause an accident because of a breakdown on your truck then you, your employer, and the truck manufacturer might all be held liable in the accident. You or your company are required by law to prove your truck meets federal safety standards before going on the road.
Everyone will have issues with their trucks trailers repair in Tacoma at one time or another but there are some very routine things that cause breakdowns for most truckers. If you keep your eye on these things, you should be in good shape on the road.
Pre and post-trip inspections are the way you prevent these things from happening on the road. No matter how good your preventive maintenance is, you need to check all of these items before you pull out on your trip or trucks trailers repair in Tacoma and again when you pull in after completing it. Don’t risk it. Inspect it.