Purcell Tire & Service in Joplin, MO

Roadside work goes faster with the right five details, and a driver who has them ready usually gets the correct tire on the first trip:

1. Where the unit is, by highway and mile marker where possible.
2. The tire size and position, read off the sidewall.
3. Whether the unit is loaded, and with what.
4. The company, the unit number, and who authorizes the work.
5. A phone number that stays reachable.

The size is the one that decides the outcome. A technician sent with the wrong tire has to go back, and the unit waits through both trips.

Casings collected here are retreaded at the Purcell plant in Potosi and returned ready to run.

What ends most casings is not mileage. It is a tire run flat for the last few miles to an exit, which destroys the structure that makes retreading possible. For a fleet running long distances, the discipline of stopping when a tire fails is worth more than any purchasing decision. See retreading.

A fleet based here does not stay here. Trucks cross into Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the course of a normal week, and tire problems do not respect the border either.

Fleet services is built for that. One set of agreed specifications, so the same tire goes on wherever the unit happens to stop. One account, so the invoice makes sense. One record, so the numbers can be read rather than reconstructed from receipts.

Purcell runs fleet services from 49 locations across 12 states, including Springdale and Mabelvale in Arkansas. Talk to this store about how an account covers units running outside the area.