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Damage Assessment
A truck is a sizeable investment and more often than not the team at ALRO find themselves repairing rigs worth up to $250,000. When a truck is so highly valued it’s not uncommon for the repair price itself to reach close to $100,000. A good relationship with the insurance community gives Barry Parker, the ALRO manager, and his staff a head start when beginning any job. It is, he says, a situation that benefits all parties, since a quick turnaround means that the firm has its vehicle back on the road and earning money with minimum delay.
Job Preparation, Administration & Completion
In tandem with an array of other computer software, Barry uses an updated version of Autoquote to manage the inventory of parts and labour spent on a repair. Certainly, with 12 to 15 vehicles on site and any where up to three dozen jobs on the go at one time, a high level of organisation is essential. Staff can appraise the status of a job instantly by logging on to one of ALRO’s networked computers. From here a range of important details can be viewed—estimated duration of the job, parts ordered, labour already expended, insurance breakdown, and digital imaging of a vehicle are among the options. In particular, the digital photo record allows images to be e-mailed instantly to acquire parts, quote prices and keep all relevant parties informed about the restoration progress of the vehicle.
Cutting Edge Equipment Restores Any Vehicle
Man power alone, of course, is no where near enough to repair a truck weighing in at many tonnes. Only a state of the art machine like the Blackhawk Power Cage, capable of straightening a heavy truck chassis in next to no time, can remodel a twisted wreck into something recognisable. Indeed, it is thanks to technology such as laser alignment and other advances that ALRO have been able to expand their scope of repairs beyond trucks, cars, vans and utes, to include fibreglass vehicles and equipment like boats and jet skis...
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