Updated August 18, 2022, to reflect the most current maintenance-related coverage.
While you can’t influence how bad a roadside or weigh-station inspector’s day has been before you see him, you can make the inspection easy by not taking any chance on whether your rig will pass muster.
These following Overdrive articles offer tips on maintenance of lights, brakes and other common areas of equipment failure and inspectors’ priority. Use these resources as you need them to help prepare yourself for the road ahead.
Overdrive‘s Partners in Business manual contains a wealth of maintenance-related material, including the dedicated maintenance chapter. Find plenty more outside the manual in the PIB series of stories via this link.
Tires and brakes
Tire safety risks can rise with the temperature
The five most common reasons wheel seals fail -- and other wheel-end resources
Proper wheel end play the difference between bearing life and loose wheels
Newly updated: The CCJ air-brake ebook
An assist for avoiding brake-adjustment violations
Dramatic, disastrous wheel-off incidents: A new way to prevent
Winter tire management for greater tread life
The team effort for owners, shops to combat brake 'rustjacking'
Prime time for air disc brakes
Keeping brake adjusters in their groove
Auto-slacks: To adjust or not to adjust?
Tread pattern, compounding, maintenance considerations in-depth
The skinny on maintaining brakes to reduce cost, downtime
Data underlies benefits of low-rolling-resistance tires
Tire spec’ing, retreading for life-cycle cost containment
How-to: Build a closed greasing system
How-to: Replacing brake linings and more
How-to: DIY tire maintenance
CSA and Tire Basics
Spec’ing tires
Preventing tire/brake failure
Avoiding top tire killers
CSA and tire basics
Tire pressure and load
