Reno, Nevada

Mobile Service in Reno, NV

Purcell Tire & Service brings planned tire work to your yard or site from 470 S Rock Blvd in Reno. Seven Purcell locations offer mobile service and two of them are in Nevada. Call (775) 786-5231.

Decide in advance how you will know it is working

Mobile service is easy to start and easy to keep doing without anybody ever establishing whether it is worth what it costs. A year in, the usual position is that it feels convenient, which is not the same as knowing.

Two or three numbers settle it, and they are worth agreeing at the start rather than reconstructing later.

Vehicle movements avoided. Count them. Every unit that would have been driven to a store and back, multiplied by the time that takes, is the thing the service is actually buying. Most fleets underestimate it because the trips were never recorded as a cost.

Unplanned events. Roadside calls and failures, before and after. If the scheduled inspections are doing their job, that number should fall, and if it has not then the visits are fitting tires rather than preventing problems.

Work completed per visit. A visit where half the units were out is a visit that cost full price for part of the value, and if that happens repeatedly it is a scheduling problem rather than a service problem.

Those three are enough. A fleet that tracks them can tell at a review whether to expand the arrangement, change the frequency, or stop.

What a review conversation should cover

What changed, what the three numbers say, and what the store observed that you would not have seen: which units keep needing attention, which positions are failing, and whether the fleet's condition is improving or drifting.

That last part is the half fleets rarely ask for, and it is free.

What the visit includes

Tire work, largely: fitting, changeovers, inspection, pressures, and casing collection for retreading.

Alignment, wheel refurbishing and the vehicle repair list need the shop. A unit that has already stopped is a roadside call.

About this store

The Reno store runs eighteen services, the longest list in Nevada, is open Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and is managed by Fred Sinfellow.

See the national mobile service page for all 7 locations.

Questions

Mobile service questions, Reno

How do we know whether it is worth it?

Track three things from the start: vehicle movements avoided, unplanned events before and after, and how much of the planned work actually gets done each visit.

Why those three?

The first is what you are buying, the second is whether the inspections are preventing anything, and the third tells you if the problem is scheduling rather than service.

What should a review cover?

Those numbers, plus what the store observed about your fleet's condition. That last part is rarely asked for and it is free.

What cannot come to us?

Alignment, wheel refurbishing and vehicle repair. Those need the shop.

Set up a mobile visit in Reno

Call (775) 786-5231 with the number of units, the site and your window.