Posts tagged with small business strong

  • 17
  • Aug2021

A Time for Safer Trailer Braking

A Time for Safer Trailer Braking

The annual CVSA Brake Safety Week is scheduled for August 22 – 28, 2021.  During this industry-focused safety event, enforcement officials will inspect commercial vehicles and place units out-of-service (OOS) until any critical brake issues or other safe-operating violations are corrected.  The last brake safety week found that 12% of commercial vehicles inspected had brake […]

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  • 04
  • Sep2020

Medium-Duty Trucks Need Heavy-Duty TLC

Medium-Duty Trucks Need Heavy-Duty TLC

People call K.I.D. Truck & Trailer Service in Oakville, Ontario to enquire curiously if we work on medium-duty trucks.  In our nearly four decades in business, we’ve serviced every make and model of diesel engine equipment, literally.  It seems like a good time to review our commitment to this class of vehicles and explain why […]

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  • 23
  • Jul2020

A Reputation for Good Value is a Certainty

A Reputation for Good Value is a Certainty

Given our current circumstances, there’s an intense focus on making every dollar go further and every purchase count. We’ve come to equate a low price with good value and there is often waste in this equation. It reminds me of a time when I met a Maintenance Manager for the first time. He kept repeating […]

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  • 23
  • Mar2020

Keep Calm and Carry on With Humanity

Keep Calm and Carry on With Humanity

I had another blog in mind for this month, although with the focus on the novel Coronavirus, it seems tone deaf to pretend we can carry on as we would normally. We’re living through interesting times to say the least. The stock market has plunged more than at any other time in history, the Saudis […]

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