Is your fleet really protected against wheel offs?

Neglecting your wheel nuts will eventually cost you money, the question is when and at what cost? How will your company be affected if your truck causes a fatality and how much will you spend on lawsuits and public relations afterwards? Will your new insurance premiums put you out of business? How do you explain to the shareholders that this could have been avoided for less than one tenth of one percent of the overall cost of the truck?

The US National Transportation Safety Board reported in March of 2011 that over 1000 wheel offs occur every year; that’s on average 2-3 a day. When will your business become a statistic?

If you say no to any of the folloiwng questions, you are at risk of a wheel off:

1. Do your technicians pre-clean all studs before removing fasteners?
2. Do you have PTFE coating on your fasteners (only good to 400hrs of salt spray)?
3. Do your technicians lubricate flanged nuts and studs?
4. Do you understand how rust and debris causes dangerous clamp load, even with the right torque?
5. Do your technicians follow the Tire Industry Associations Wheel and Rim installation guidelines?
6. Are you familiar with TMC RP 222A (wheel nut maintenance)?
7. Do you have a wheel and rim retention program?

Can you afford a multi-million dollar lawsuit?

The Tire Industry Association attributes the prevention of wheel-off incidents directly to the proper cleaning of wheel fasteners.

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No Cover: Requires pre-cleaning, maintenance and lubricating pre-assembly

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Chrome Cover:  TMC recommends removal from service immediately

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Bud-Eze cover: No 

maintenance required; best insurance of 50,000 PSI clamp load

 

Top Reasons To Use bud-eze Covers

1. bud-eze nut covers keep flange nuts clean and safe eliminating the need to follow OEM recomended cleaning procedures.
2. OSHA regulation 29CFR 1910.177 dictates that corroded or damaged fasteners be removed from service.
3. A fleet of 100 tractors and trailers will spend $25,000 annually on wheel fastener maintenance, if they do it right.  Virtually all of this is eliminated when using bud-eze
4. bud-eze cuts roadside emergency downtime by preventing seized nuts

A simple air-tight cover for wheel fasteners will reduce wheel-off incidents and lower your fleet maintenance costs by controling the environment of the fastener and ensuring that your wheel mechanics get the right clamp load.

Corrosion & debris combined with inadequate cleaning jeopardizes the required 50,000 psi clamp load, even when nuts are torqued to 500 ft lbs.  This is because a lot of the torque is used to overcome rust and debris on the stud. 

Our product eliminates the potential for human error in wheel fastener maintenance.

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