mercer transportation

Next silly question: does Mercer-town have open wifi for the drivers? I will need to be updating our spreadsheets and such, but can't really do that until we get thru orientation.

 

Free coffee @ WiFi.

 

I agree with @skateboardman. Most everything on my truck I try to fix before failure. But tires, I will go 5-6-7-8-9.............. hundred thousand miles with out an alignment, if I am happy with tire wear.

 

Big Moe's in Birmingham, AL is absolutely amazing with alignments. I have been going there for 6 years & they always stand behind the work they do. They use old school techniques & I have never had a problem. I'm sure many others on here have good places to recommend as well. Just my personal favorite.

 

There is one in Memphis as well with a great rep. The shop is in a rough part of town, but they do a lot of work. Just stay inside the building..lol. Let me know if you need the name a d contact. Myself or a friend has it somewhere.

 

You need to get an account with IT? Then you can use it. There is an email posted on the wall in the drivers lounge house.

 

It's wearing bad on the outside of the right steer, a little extra on the inside of the left steer. They adjusted the steer toe +.45 on each tire and adjusted the the front drive axle +.4 on the left, -.4 on the right toe, adjusted scrub angle +.36 supposedly putting everything in the +/-.02 range. They were claiming it was all out of whack before they did it. If so, I like it out of whack, put it back lol

 

If the steers are wearing like that the drive axles are set closer together on the right side. You will see inside and outside wearing on alternating drive tires also. I always like to set my toe at 1/64 to 1/32 toe in. The resistance of the tires rolling will try to toe the wheels out. Any wear in the bearings, king pins or tie rod ends will automatically cause toe out when driving.

 

Also, any rear suspension wear will cause the right side drives to close up under power no matter how they are set when still. That was a big problem on KWs with the AG100 and AG200. The AG400 I don't know a whole lot about, but I suspect the lower bushings will wear on them around 400k doing the same as the other series.

 

I will double check, but I haven't noticed any odd wearing on the drives.