MDJ & Son'sTRUCK & TRAILER REPAIR

Truck & Trailer Repair in Port Neches, TX

From our yard

8 miles · about 15 minutes

About 8 miles up Highway 366 and Twin City Highway from the yard — a fifteen-minute run.

(409) 460-5040Monday – Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm · Saturday 8:00am – 12:00pm

How we get to Port Neches

Highway 366 and Twin City Highway carry the truck traffic, feeding the plants along the Neches River. From our yard it is a straight shot up through Mid-County.

The trucking around here

Port Neches is a plant town on the river. The petrochemical operations along the Neches keep a steady flow of tanker, vacuum, roll-off, and contractor equipment moving through, and the river terminals add their own traffic. Much of it is short-cycle work — a truck may make a dozen short moves in a shift and never see a highway.

What breaks on this stretch

Short-cycle plant work is the classic aftertreatment killer: not enough sustained exhaust temperature to regenerate, and enough idling to load the filter anyway. Trucks working the Port Neches plants show up with soot codes, incomplete regens, and derates more than almost anything else. Air system leaks and brake wear from constant low-speed stopping run a close second.

What we get called for in Port Neches

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Port Neches questions

Our trucks keep derating on plant work. Is that normal here?

It is common and it is fixable. Short runs and long idles never let a DPF passively regenerate. We scan to find whether it is duty cycle, a sensor, a dosing fault, or an ash-loaded filter — those are four different repairs and only one of them is a filter.

Call the shop — (409) 460-5040