PM Service
Preventive maintenance is the cheapest work you will ever buy from us, because it is the work that stops the expensive kind. A wheel seal caught on a PM is an hour in the bay. The same seal found on the shoulder of I-10 is a tow, a missed load, and a driver sitting.
The interval is set to your trucks, not to a chart
A truck running plant gates in Port Neches and a truck running I-10 to Baton Rouge do not wear the same way. Short runs and long idle hours are hard on aftertreatment, batteries, and brakes in a way highway miles are not, and highway miles are hard on tires and cooling in a way yard work is not. Tell us what your trucks actually do — miles, hours, idle time, what they haul, where they run — and we will set an interval against that and put it in writing so your dispatch can schedule around it instead of reacting to it.
What a PM covers
Oil and filters, fuel and air filtration, and a full fluid check. Then the walk that actually finds things: brakes measured rather than glanced at, air system tested for leaks, tires read for depth and wear pattern, steering and suspension checked for play, driveline and U-joints, wheel seals and hub condition, belts and hoses, cooling system, charging system and batteries under load, every lamp and the wiring behind it, and a scan for stored and pending faults before they set a light. On a trailer, add landing gear, king pin, air lines, and the running gear.
You get told what we found, not just what we did
Every PM comes back with three lists: what we corrected, what is legal now but will not be at the next interval, and what is fine. The middle list is the one that matters — it is how you plan a repair into a scheduled slot instead of taking it as a breakdown. Nothing gets fixed beyond the service without you agreeing to it first.
Pair it with the DOT inspection
The annual federal periodic inspection covers a lot of the same ground, so running them together saves you a trip and a day of downtime. Two certified DOT inspectors work here, Luke Dugas and Mark Dugas Jr., which means the inspection happens on our schedule and yours rather than a third party's. For a fleet we work through your units a few at a time so you are never grounding half the fleet in the same week.
Drop it and leave it
PM does not need a driver waiting. Drop the unit in the gated yard, leave a number, and pick it up when it is done. That is the whole point of scheduling it — it comes out of a slow slot in your week instead of out of a load.
What gets checked on a PM
- Engine oil and filter, fuel filters, air filter
- All fluid levels and condition — coolant, steering, transmission, differentials
- Brakes measured: lining thickness, pushrod travel, drums and rotors
- Air system tested for leaks; chambers, S-cams and slack adjusters
- Tires — tread depth, pressure, and wear pattern read for what is causing it
- Steering and front end checked for play; suspension, air bags and bushings
- Driveline and U-joints
- Wheel seals and hub condition
- Belts, hoses, and the cooling system
- Batteries under load, charging system output
- Every lamp, plus the grounds and wiring behind them
- Scan for stored and pending faults before they set a dash light
- Trailer: landing gear, king pin, air lines, running gear
Where we run this
Port Arthur, Nederland, Port Neches, Groves, Beaumont, Orange, Vidor, Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Baytown, Sulphur, Lake Charles — and the rest of the 75-mile service area.