Mining Fleet Services in Jonesboro, AR

Every program proposal eventually comes down to whether it is worth the money, and most operations try to answer that by comparing tire prices. That is the wrong comparison and it is also the harder one.

The number that settles it is what an unplanned stoppage costs. Not the tire and not the labor, but the hour of production, the crew standing, and whatever downstream of that machine stops with it.

Work that out once, honestly, for your two or three most important machines. It is usually larger than people expect, and it reframes the whole discussion: a program that converts two unplanned stoppages a year into planned ones has paid for itself before anybody argues about tire prices.

• Specification by machine and application, because a loader at a face and a haul truck on a road are different problems.
• Scheduled inspection, including pressures, which is where most of the saving comes from.
• Removal decisions, so casings come off while they are still worth retreading.
• Wheel refurbishing, since the wheel under an OTR tire is expensive and repairable.
• OTR services for the fitting and repair itself.
• Reporting, which turns the above into a cost you can act on.

Mobile service. Springdale is the Arkansas location for planned tire work at your site, so a program run from Jonesboro is built around work at the store and arrangements you make.

Say that early in the conversation rather than assuming either way.

Bring the machine list with makes, models, tire sizes and quantities. The application and surface for each. Hours per shift and shifts per day. What is failing now. Site access and induction requirements. The stoppage figure above, if you have worked it out.

The Jonesboro store runs seventeen services, opens at 7:00 AM, and is managed by Tony Kuehnel. Mabelvale and Springdale also run mining programs in Arkansas.

See the national mining fleet services page for all 13 locations.