Reduce your fleet’s fuel and tyre expenditure with Levanta’s advanced equipment
As a heavy vehicle fleet operator, did you know that carrying out regular complete truck wheel alignments is one of the most effective ways to reduce your operating costs?
That’s why it’s time to ditch high maintenance costs, extended downtime, compatibility issues, challenges with tyre pressure monitoring, preventable wheel problems, and unsafe workshop practices.
Levanta’s advanced truck wheel alignments equipment is precision engineered to overcome the pain points faced by all heavy vehicle workshops and fleets with in-house truck wheel alignments.
In this news post, we look at the effects of wheel misalignment, draw on some examples, and show you how Levanta’s advanced truck wheel alignment equipment can help mining, agriculture, and other heavy vehicle operators save money over the long term.
The costs of truck wheel misalignment
The negative effects of wheel misalignment include:
- Increased fuel costs
- Increased tyre wear
- Increased mechanical wear
- Poor steering responsiveness
- Increased tracking sensitivity
- Increased air resistance and fuel consumption
- Potential hazard to other vehicles
- Increased driver discomfort & fatigue
- Increased safety hazards
How wheel alignment equipment can improve your fleet’s economy
A heavy vehicle with properly aligned wheels can benefit from up to a 5% reduction in fuel consumption, as well as greatly reduced tyre wear.
Let’s look at a couple of real-world examples of the benefits of regular truck wheel alignments.
Example 1: Reduced fuel costs
| Distance travelled per annum | 200,000 km |
| Diesel fuel price | $2.20/litre |
| Fuel consumption: | 4 litres/10 km |
Fuel cost reduction thanks to truck wheel alignments: conservatively, say 3%.
Total cost reduction: 0.03 x 200,000 x 2.2 x 0.4 = $5,280 per year – per truck.
Example 2: Reduced tyre wear
| Tyres changed prematurely thanks to wear | 2 tyres each year |
| Tyre cost | $500 per tyre |
Total cost reduction: $ 1,000 per year, per truck
Even using the conservative figures above, you can see the massive extra cost that wheel misalignments add to your bottom line.
A wheel alignment diagnosis allows you to plan ahead. With the help of the wheel angle measurements from a diagnosis, you can make the necessary adjustments and avoid these unnecessarily high fuel consumption and tyre wear costs.
How the JOSAM Cam-Aligner solves truck wheel misalignment
The JOSAM Cam-Aligner compact wheel alignment system enables truck and bus workshops to carry out truck wheel alignments quickly and accurately.
The patented camera technology uses the chassis centre line of the vehicle as a reference to measure wheel angles like toe, steering box position, camber, out-of-square, parallelism, and axle offset, along with castor, KPI, Toe Out On Turns, and max turn.
Importantly, its unique rolling method lets you take toe and camber measurements while the vehicle is in the driving position. No lifting of the axles with run-out compensation is required. It’s a massive improvement to your workshop efficiency.
JOSAM’s wheel alignment systems are used all over the world by OEM workshops, independent workshops, fleet owners and tyre workshops. They strive to serve workshops with products that can improve their profitability and make their customers even more satisfied. Levanta is proud to distribute JOSAM wheel aligners throughout Australia and New Zealand.
The rolling method of wheel alignment
The measuring is carried out as the vehicle stands on the floor, followed by rolling the vehicle so that the wheels turn half a turn and the cameras automatically take the readings.
This method allows the camera system to measure before, during and after rolling, without the need for any run-out compensation. Toe and camber values will be displayed automatically and adjustments can be made if needed.
The axle offset value together with out of square is also presented as a result of the measurement.
By adding two more wheel adapters two axles can be rolled and measured simultaneously.
Talk to Levanta about heavy vehicle wheel alignment machines
To upgrade your heavy vehicle workshop and ensure more efficient running for your fleet, you simply must consider a wheel alignment system.
Call Levanta now on 1300 577 541 or get in touch online to find out more about wheel alignment technology for your heavy vehicle workshop.
