Give each trailer its own alignment record
Tractors tend to have a history. They have an assigned driver, a maintenance file, a service schedule. Trailers tend not to. They move between tractors, between yards, sometimes between companies, and the knowledge of what has been done to them goes nowhere.
That makes trailer alignment problems hard to see. A trailer that eats its tires on one side gets new tires, then new tires again, and nobody connects the two events because nobody has the trailer's story in one place.
A simple record changes that.
One page per trailer. Identified by its unit number or VIN, kept wherever the fleet keeps its maintenance files.
Every alignment on it. The date, what was measured, and what was adjusted. A trailer that needed a large correction is a trailer to watch.
Every tire change on it. Position, date and reason for removal. Repeated early removals on the same axle are an alignment question before they are a tire question.
Every event that could knock it out. A dock strike, a curb hit, axle or suspension work. Each is a reason to measure.
When a trailer joins the fleet, or changes hands within it, the record goes with it. When a trailer shows up with unexplained tire wear, the record shows whether its alignment has ever been checked at all, which is often the answer.
Plan the visit
The store opens at 7:00 AM. Align the tractor at the same visit with heavy-duty truck alignment where it is due, and run trailers through a fleet account so their records sit with the rest. The national trailer alignment page covers what the measurement includes.
This is the Commercial & Consumer listing; the Phoenix city page explains the others.
About this store
The Phoenix store runs eighteen services and is managed by Patrick Taylor.
See the national trailer alignment page for all 36 locations.