Parts inventories can be intimidating to manage, and if not done well, can be costly. On average, parts are 50 percent of what labor cost is for the typical trucking fleet.

In a perfect world, every trailer you backed up to would be the exact height for your truck and hitch combination! Unfortunately, we live in reality and every trailer is different. In my world, at Palmetto Yacht Management, nothing can be more stressful than backing up to a trailer and realizing you didn’t bring the right […]

“One of the best drive tires in the market” . . . “We’re regularly getting 200,000 miles” . . . “The quality at its price level is hard to beat.” We receive feedback like this often on the Double Coin RLB400 drive tire. An extra deep 30/32″ tread with stone drilling protectors promotes long original […]

In my last post we talked about the frustrations of an executive maintenance leader. Now let’s talk about how fleet management can reduce these frustrations to help maintain and motivate their maintenance leaders.

When longtime Alabama tire dealer Ed Westmoreland says the Double Coin RR150 is “probably the best spread axle tire in the industry,” you can take it to the bank . . . he’s been selling tires for almost 50 years now.

There’s a lot of well-founded discussion in the trucking industry about the shortage of technicians. I believe an even bigger potential impact on fleet performance, however, is the lack of qualified maintenance managers.

At Palmetto Yacht Management, we have experience with GM, Ford and Dodge heavy duty trucks in hauling very large and expensive yachts up and down the East Coast.

Driver shortages . . . it’s a huge topic of discussion at every trucking conference, including the recent CCJ Spring Symposium held in Birmingham which was co-sponsored by Double Coin Tires.

Darry Stuart has helped numerous trucking fleets, both large and small, reduce their tire operating costs by focusing on three essential elements: