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Idaho Falls, Idaho
The Purcell commercial store at 4490 Andco Dr handles trucks, trailers and fleet equipment in eastern Idaho. Seven services, all nine tire categories, and 24-hour roadside assistance. Cars go to the Purcell consumer store on East Anderson.
Idaho Falls has two Purcell stores and they split the work cleanly. This one, on Andco Dr, is for trucks, trailers and fleets. The store on East Anderson is for cars and light trucks.
The current Purcell site lists this location as "Idaho Falls (Trucks)", which is the same place under a different name.
The split is worth knowing before you drive over. There are no brakes, oil changes, A/C or engine work here, and the consumer store does not handle commercial equipment or carry the agricultural and OTR tire categories.
Services
Offering both heavy-duty truck alignment and trailer alignment is the useful part of this list, and the two belong together.
A tractor out of alignment wears its own steer tires. A trailer that tracks crooked behind it drags the tractor's drives sideways for every loaded mile, and the driver feels almost nothing. Aligning the tractor and leaving the trailer fixes half the problem and leaves the half that is harder to see.
For a fleet that swaps trailers between tractors, which is most fleets, a crooked trailer spreads its wear around the whole fleet. Finding it means looking at the trailers rather than the trucks.
All nine categories are carried, including agricultural and OTR for the farm and construction equipment of eastern Idaho.
Casings collected here are retreaded at the Boise plant and returned ready to run. Nothing is retreaded on site. For a farm, the case is worth hearing: large agricultural tires accumulate hours rather than miles, and the casing routinely outlives several treads. See retreading.
Nearby
See the Idaho Falls city page and the Idaho locations page.
Questions
No. Cars and light trucks go to the Purcell consumer store at 595 East Anderson, on (208) 522-8111. This store handles trucks, trailers and fleets.
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. 24-hour roadside assistance covers commercial units outside those hours.
Usually, yes. Both services are offered here, and doing them together is the only way to be sure which one was causing the wear.
Sound agricultural casings can be. This store collects them and the Boise plant does the work. Have a casing inspected before scrapping it.
Call (208) 552-7888, or send a quote request and it will reach Bill Goode's team.