Preventive Maintenance & DOT Inspections
Mondak Equipment provides preventive maintenance and DOT periodic inspections for commercial trucks and trailers, with repair capabilities in the same shop when something needs attention.
The Best Breakdown Is the One You Catch Before It Happens
You already know equipment wears.
The question is whether you find the developing problem during scheduled maintenance, or after the truck is loaded, dispatched and supposed to be working.
Commercial Truck & Trailer DOT Inspections
Mondak performs DOT periodic inspections on commercial trucks and trailers.
Inspection areas include applicable items such as:
- Brake systems
- Steering
- Suspension
- Tires and wheels
- Axles and wheel ends
- Lighting and electrical
- Coupling devices
- Exhaust systems
- Fuel systems
- Frames and chassis components
- Other required safety components
If an inspection identifies a problem, we can handle many of the repairs without sending the truck or trailer somewhere else.
Find it. Fix it. Document it. Get the unit back into service.
Preventive Maintenance Should Fit the Truck
A highway tractor, service truck and hydraulic crane truck do not live the same life.
Maintenance should reflect the equipment, application, mileage, operating hours and manufacturer requirements.
Depending on the unit, preventive maintenance can include:
- Engine oil and filters
- Fuel filters
- Air filtration
- Fluid levels and condition
- Cooling system inspection
- Belts and hoses
- Battery and charging system
- Brake inspection
- Steering and suspension
- Driveline inspection
- Wheel ends
- Tire condition
- Leaks
- Lighting and electrical
- A/C and heating checks
- Hydraulic system inspection
- PTO and wet kit inspection
- Body and mounted-equipment checks
A PM Is a Chance to Look at the Whole Unit
Changing the oil is easy.
The value of preventive maintenance comes from noticing what is beginning to change.
A small coolant leak, loose driveline component, damaged hydraulic hose, developing wheel-end problem or electrical issue may not have stopped the truck yet.
That does not mean it should be ignored until it does.
The goal is not to manufacture a repair list. It is to catch legitimate problems while there is still time to deal with them.
Work Trucks Need More Than Chassis Maintenance
Vocational trucks may have another machine mounted behind the cab.
That can mean:
- PTOs
- Hydraulic pumps
- Wet kits
- Reservoirs and filters
- Aerial equipment
- Cranes
- Service bodies
- Hydraulic cylinders
- Hose and fittings
- Electrical controls
- Outriggers and stabilizers
Where appropriate, Mondak can incorporate those systems into the maintenance picture instead of looking only at the truck chassis.
Fleet Maintenance With Better Records
Mondak uses Tinnacity to help manage preventive maintenance and service records around the actual equipment.
For fleet customers, that can include:
- Equipment-specific PM schedules
- Service and repair history
- Maintenance records
- QR codes on equipment for service requests
- Operator-reported repair needs
- Authorized customer access to equipment history
Over time, that history can help show more than what was repaired today.
It can show what keeps happening.
Repair What the Inspection Finds
An inspection is more useful when there is a repair shop behind it.
Mondak can handle many of the problems found during PM or inspection, including:
- Brakes
- Suspension
- Electrical
- A/C
- Cooling systems
- Drivetrain
- Hydraulic systems
- PTO and wet kits
- Hoses and fittings
- Trailer repairs
- Welding and fabrication
- Diesel emissions problems
That keeps inspection, diagnosis, repair and maintenance connected.
Keep Maintenance Ahead of Downtime
Whether you need a DOT periodic inspection, routine PM or a maintenance program for multiple units, give us the equipment information and how the fleet is being used.
We'll help build the service around the equipment, not force the equipment into a generic schedule.