Truck and Trailer Repair Services in Etobicoke | Mobile Truck Repair Service
Continuous quality truck repair and maintenance are crucial for being a good truck owner, especially during the most dangerous time of the year, the winter.
Accidents in the wintertime to vehicles in Canada, especially in December and January, increase on average by 3.1-4.7%. Just in 2020, heavy snow was present during approximately 1,500 accidents, and light snow active in the role of 900 accidents and counting. Who’s to say that you and your truck won’t be affected by such weather conditions next?
Such statistics and numbers are scary, but it is vital to know them so you can avoid becoming a number in those statistics. Knowledge of these statics can help you save time, money, and most importantly your health in the long run.
If you want to know how you can save and preserve the quality of your truck and save yourself valuable money and time, keep reading!
It’s a typical Canadian winter night, and you’re driving in the dark with the snow falling. Everything seems fine, after all, as a responsible truck driver you made sure your lights were working just this morning, right?
After a few minutes on the road in the dark and as the snow builds, your truck’s headlights go off.
Now you’re in the dark unable to see what’s in front of you and other vehicles can’t see you either. What happens next, you can probably take a guess. A devastating vehicle collision.
Many people think that you can simply check the lights yourself and go on your way but that is simply false. Every winter, you should be bringing your truck for maintenance and repair services, to get your lights professionally examined.
After all, there is a reason why only true professionals are hired at truck repair stops. These people have a trained and experienced eye and can foresee whether your lights will soon burn out or not. Niva Services wouldn’t want you to get into a collision that can threaten your life as well as your bank account for such a simple reason as not getting your lights checked professionally which is why we only hire the most qualified experts.
Driving a truck can be difficult even in the easiest circumstances but the difficulty only increases in the wintertime, with the snow and icy roads.
Slippery conditions on the road can cause your truck to steer unexpectedly and even worse, sudden movements such as
can cause you to lose control of the truck and perhaps even jackknife.
Such matters are complicated even further when your truck has an unknown deficiency in the brakes. Having deficient brakes is terrifying in any situation but when you are on a road that’s filled with ice and snow, the matter is simply nothing more than life-threatening. This is why you must bring your truck in for truck repair services even if you are confident that everything is functioning properly.
Such a one-time, once a year payment, to bring your truck in for truck repair services, is simply an investment that can prevent you from paying for long term consequences such as insurance claims and hospital bills.
Windshield wipers and the windshield itself, power cords, trailer doors, and much more aspects of a truck can become frozen due to the cold of the ruthless Canadian winters. You simply cannot escape nor can you prevent the cold temperatures which are due to happen, but you can outsmart it and prevent your truck from long-lasting damages.
Windshield wipers become iced by freezing temperatures and other winter-related phenomena. When the wipers become frozen they have the subsequent and devastating effect of binding themselves to the windshields of your truck.
Whilst the idea of just simply turning on your wiper system to get the wipers unstuck as well as clear any ice and snow may present itself as smart and a convenient thing to do, that is not the best course of action to pursue. Turning on your truck’s wiper system to do such tasks can burn out or even overheat the wiper motor as well as permanently damage the assembly transmission of the wiper.
To make sure that your truck can adequately thaw components within, it needs an operating and functional heating system. Yes, it is recommended that in the winter you should only warm up your vehicle for 30 seconds as the engine will warm up whilst it is being driven, but what if your heating system has a dysfunction you aren’t aware of?
Your heating system may put unnecessary pressure on your truck’s engine. And what if your engine has been frozen?
These “what-ifs” may seem unnecessary and simply incessant worries, but a responsible truck driver, one who cares about their well being, their truck as well as the safety of others, can and should be asking themselves such “what-ifs”.
Tires that have been incorrectly inflated and are in a bad condition during the wintertime is simply a death wish.
As a truck driver, you know the importance of quality when looking for winter tires as well as recognize why it’s crucial to change from your regular tires for winter-specific ones. But it would surprise you how many truck owners overlook the highly important aspect of tire pressure.
In cold temperatures, tire pressure falls 1 psi for every 10 degrees of outdoor temperature. Having low tire pressure affects your truck’s ability to brake efficiently and results in unresponsive steering. This is problematic when it comes to winter driving as sudden breaks and unforeseen swerving is common due to the unpredictable road conditions.
This is precisely the reason why you should be reaching out to truck repair services to get a checkup on your tires and pressure so you can avoid unfortunate incidents on the winter roads.
Winter, although it can be beautiful with the snow covering the land in pure white, can equally be horrific. The wintertime creates dangerous situations by encompassing the roads with ice and obscuring your vision with heavy snow. Alongside such effects, winter can cause unexpected issues such as freezing your truck’s window wipers and decreasing the tire pressure.
As a truck driver, you have a certain responsibility on the road that you owe not only to yourself but to other drivers as well. That responsibility is to be extra careful during the wintertime. We all know how hectic the roads can get even when you’re simply just driving a regular car, but the risk for truck drivers on the road only increases as the temperature steadily drops.
Obtaining truck repair services at Niva Services will enable you to get ahead of the winter cold and beat it. Even if you are confident that there is nothing wrong with your truck, or that you can just check everything yourself, that is an unadvisable attitude to foster as when you are on the road, you are not only endangering yourself but other driver’s lives.
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Our company has been serving GTA community for its truck, trailer and heavy-duty equipment repair needs for more than 30 years, who understand that there is a need for a reliable repair service in this area. We specialize in “VOLVO”, International, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Western Star, Freightliners, providing diagnostics, electrical and mechanical repairs of trucks, trailers, buses and light duty trucks.
Niva Services specializes in “VOLVO”, International, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Western Star, Freightliners, providing diagnostics, electrical and mechanical repairs of trucks, trailers, buses and light duty trucks. We are locally owned and operated from Etobicoke (Toronto).
