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Our Articles
Diesel repair notes from the shop floor — maintenance intervals, diagnostic workflows and the failures that were cheap to prevent and expensive to fix.
Jan 6, 2026
From U-Joints to Axle Shafts: How Driveline Problems Travel Down to Your Axles
How a worn U-joint becomes a differential, then a set of axle shafts, then a tow — the failure chain, the early warning signs, and the checks that stop it at the cheap end.
Oct 8, 2025
How Misalignment Eats Tires, Fuel, and Uptime: The Real ROI of a Fleet Alignment Program
Where misalignment actually shows up on the balance sheet, a conservative per-tractor ROI model, and the inspection sequence that makes an alignment number hold.
Jul 25, 2025
Alternator vs. Battery: How to Pinpoint the Real Culprit Behind Electrical Failures
A meter-first workflow for separating a failing alternator from a failing battery, with the voltages that decide it and the lifecycle records that keep the answer from being a guess.
May 23, 2025
5 Diesel Battery Mistakes That Can Leave You Stranded (And How to Avoid Them)
The wrong battery type, corroded terminals, an unfound parasitic drain, a bad installation and an alternator nobody tested — five avoidable reasons a diesel truck does not start.
Apr 7, 2025
7 Tire Maintenance Tips to Prevent Blowouts and Extend Tire Life
Pressure, tread depth, rotation, alignment, load, damage and tire choice — the seven checks that decide whether a set of heavy-duty tires reaches its expected life or fails early.
Jan 24, 2025
The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining Heavy-Duty Truck Suspension Systems
What a suspension system actually does, the six signs it needs attention, and the maintenance routine that keeps leaf springs, shocks and bushings from taking the tires with them.
Jul 22, 2024
Introductory Article
The first entry in the archive, and the note that opened it: what this section is for, and what the technicians who write it intend to put in it.
Note
These are written by the people who do the work, mostly in answer to a question that came up at the counter more than once. If a piece here saves someone a tow, it has paid for itself.
The entries live under /articles and this index under /company, which is the live site’s arrangement rather than a choice — they were never nested under it, and moving seven URLs to make them look nested would spend ranking to buy tidiness.