Put the trailers on the list
When a contractor or a small hauler sets up a fleet account, the list they bring is nearly always the trucks. The trailers get forgotten, and they are often where the money is quietly leaking.
A trailer has no driver paying attention to it. Nobody feels it pull, nobody hears it vibrate, and nobody notices a tire running low until it fails. Equipment trailers, dump trailers and utility trailers also tend to sit for stretches between jobs, which brings its own problems: pressures drift, tires age without wearing, and bearings and brakes go unchecked.
A fleet record that includes the trailers changes that. Each one gets its tire sizes on file, its own inspection history, and a place on the schedule rather than an appearance only when something breaks. For a business with three trucks and six trailers, that is two thirds of the axles moving from guesswork to a plan.
What to bring
- Every powered unit and every trailer, with tire sizes and positions.
- Which trailers sit for long periods and which run daily.
- Who authorizes work, and how you want it billed.
- What has failed in the last year, and on which units.
What sits behind the account
Seventeen services at one address, including trailer alignment, heavy-duty truck alignment, wheel refurbishing, retreading through the nearby Potosi plant, and the full car and light truck list for the pickups. Roadside assistance runs faster when authorization is settled in advance.
The store is open until 5:30 PM, which gives a crew a little more room to drop a unit after a job.
Nearby stores
Fenton and Washington also run fleet accounts, and one account across stores is worth asking about at setup.
About this store
The De Soto store carries all nine Purcell tire categories and is managed by Cathy Bequette.
See the national fleet services page for the other 48 locations.