How can Fleet maintenance software help prevent wheel-off incidents and improve truck and bus safety?
5 tips to integrate into your process
The safety of truck drivers, bus passengers, road users, and maintenance operators is top priority for companies. The risk of wheel-off is real and can be tragic in most cases! This risk must be eliminated to avoid accidents. Discover how Fleet maintenance software can transform your maintenance process and keep your vehicles safely on the road.
Wheel-off incidents are recognized as a global road safety issue. The consequences are dramatic: damage to roads, vehicles, street furniture and many more. Companies that own vehicle fleets have big responsibilities regarding their wheel maintenance. It is also an economic issue. Breakdowns such as vehicle downtime and recovery costs result in additional expenses and reduced profits.
A nut well tightened is a wheel well attached to a safe vehicle
The most likely causes of wheel-off are due to tightening issues during maintenance of vehicles.
Improper tightening of nuts, in the wrong direction, causes weak points on the wheel, and that is where incidents can occur:
- The nut is not tightened enough
- The nut is over-tightened
- Lack of regular tightness checks
- Incorrect tightening sequence
5 key points for wheel checks to boost road safety
To ensure the safety of each of your vehicle's wheels, here is your maintenance priority checklist:
- Set the precise torque value for each nut of each wheel on a specific vehicle to significantly limit tightening errors;
- Streamline the process to standardize and customize torque values for large-scale deployment across your entire fleet and workshops;
- Give technicians the exact torque value for optimal tightening, tailored to the vehicle they are working on;
- Monitor each maintenance operation to track what has been done, enabling corrective actions and continuous improvement;
- Then, produce detailed data reports to analyze issues and prevent maintenance to avoid incidents.
At Chicago Pneumatic, we offer a solution to get complete traceability of nut tightening
The CP8609 eBlueTork battery torque wrenches have been created for the maintenance of the heavy truck and transportation industry. This tool brings more comfort for the operator; there is no noise, no vibration, no dust. This tool reduces maintenance costs because just one operator is needed.
With this tool, we developed the new Fleet maintenance software CPLinQ PRO HTB to go much further in safety. CPLinQ PRO HTB is a process software management system that will support your wheel changing process. This software allows managers to integrate specific settings for nut tightening of each vehicle. These settings can be sent to eBlueTork during maintenance operations so that technicians have the perfect torque value, applied in the correct order.
Chicago Pneumatic has helped us to secure our process through the precision of tightening and traceability of our fleet's data, introducing new technologies into our workshops to find a cutting-edge technical solution.