Considering installing a brake tester in your workshop? here's 5 great reasons why you should do it!
Most of us in the commercial vehicle / fleet repair industry have experienced that feeling of frustration and annoyance when one of your vehicles fails on a brake test during its CVRT. Let’s take a look at the financial implications of a failed brake test:
By Installing your own roller brake tester in your workshop you can avoid these costly setbacks. Furthermore you can save even more on costs if you carry out your own preventative maintenance inspections internally. Take a look at the grid below as an example of the savings that can be made over 5 years by a medium sized fleet operator that installs a roller brake tester in their workshop whilst carrying out their own PMI’s. In this example the fleet operator has 60 vehicles with each vehicle being brake tested 6 times a year.
Number of vehicles: Brake tests per year:Year 1 ROI: 4%Year 2 ROI: 109%Year 3 ROI: 213%Year 4 ROI: 317%Year 5 ROI: 422% 60 6Save: €1500Save: €37500Save: €73500Save: €109500Save: €145500. As you can see there are massive savings to be made. Even the potential to make your investment back within 1 year! That’s why saving money is the number 1 reason you should consider installing your own roller brake tester in your workshop today.
We all know these days how important it is for fleet operators to be compliant with the standards set by the RSA. The last thing you want as a fleet operator is to end up with a high risk rating on the RSA risk register. Regular preventative maintenance inspections are key to being compliant. Brake testing your vehicles and keeping the records is an integral part of a thorough PMI. Installing your own roller brake tester in your workshop is great way of ensuring you stay compliant and save money in the meantime!
I think this one speaks for itself doesn’t it. What better way to guarantee that the brakes on your vehicles are of a roadworthy standard than carrying out a brake test on them? Did you know that in most major fleet companies that repair their own vehicles it is mandatory that once the brakes have been overhauled on a vehicle, that vehicle must be brake tested before it can leave the premises? And for good reason! That brake test report is worth its weight in gold if the vehicle is involved in an incident after repair work is carried out. Also as a fleet operator or workshop foreman this practice gives you peace of mind, you cannot physically inspect all of the repair work carried out in a workshop and we all know that mistakes can happen. So at least if the vehicle has to be brake tested before it leaves the workshop you stand a great chance of spotting any defects first!
At the end of the day a roller brake tester is just another diagnostic tool in the workshop isn’t it? So don’t be afraid to use it as one! A brake test machine can tell you the following information from a brake test:
Knowing this information in the quick time it takes to carry out a brake test on a vehicle is invaluable. No more stripping and investigating on a whim. Now you have the information in front of you, you know how the brakes are acting on the road and you know where you need to strip and investigate further.
Remember when you used to have to pay for your brake tests and it cost you a fortune? Well now you have installed your own brake tester you can create a new revenue stream for your business charge your customers for carrying out brake tests. Advertise locally for pre CVRT inspections and brake tests. A brake test on a 2 axle truck can be carried out in under 10 minutes…now that’s easy money. Plus with the additional revenue created from the brake tester you will make the return on your initial investment even quicker than planned.
So what’s stopping you? Own your own brake tester from as little as €150 a month*
So now your armed with 5 great reasons as a fleet operator or a workshop owner to install a roller brake tester in your workshop, so what’s stopping you? Contact Assetminder Garage Equipment today and enquire about our AHS Pruftechnik brake testers. We can even arrange finance for you so there is little up-front costs.
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