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You’re heading up north.Rough roads, long miles — the usual. But something’s off.The cab doesn’t just rock — it floats.It feels wallowy, like you’re steering a tinny on the ocean. You try to ignore it.Turn the music up. Shift your weight.Still there.By the time you...

You’re driving along, keeping an eye on the gauges like always.The engine temp starts creeping up. Strange. You’ve got coolant.It’s not even that hot outside.No heavy loads. No hills.But the needle keeps climbing. Something’s not right. You ease back, try to take it...

What Started as a Leak Nearly Became a Catastrophe A small oil leak doesn’t always stay small. An Iveco rolled into Webbie’s Mechanical with what looked like a routine problem. The driver pointed out a steady leak under the cab — nothing dramatic, but enough to raise...

A Snapped Hose and a Whole Lot of Coolant One radiator fault nearly turned into a full-blown disaster. A customer called us in a panic — their dash had lit up with a red fault code and a loud warning to stop immediately.Those alerts are never good… and this one was...

It always starts the same way — a knock you can’t quite place. You turn down the radio. You check the dash. And you wonder: “Is that my engine?” That was the case for one of our recent customers, who’d been hearing a strange knocking sound while driving their white...

A customer recently brought in their newly purchased green Mack for its first service. Everything seemed normal — until we drained the oil. That’s when our mechanic spotted it: a shimmer of metal on the sump plug. Not what you ever want to see. Fine metallic swarf in...

You’re 100km out of Perth, truck temp is climbing, and you’ve got a load to get on the road.That’s exactly the spot this Freightliner driver found himself in. Instead of risking a full breakdown, he did what smart operators do — he nursed it in, dropped his trailer...

Air pressure isn’t just a number on the dash — it keeps your suspension stable and your brakes working.Lose pressure too quickly, and you’re in for a rough ride — or worse, all your brakes could lock on. That’s exactly what happened with this Kenworth T909. The driver...

You’d never think a split rubber hose could write off an engine — but that’s exactly what came close to happening here. This white Kenworth had just come back from a job up north when the driver noticed a turbo fault code pop up on the dash. He did the right thing —...