Overhead doors on trucks and trailers require the same care as garage doors

Garage door repair and maintenance services usually come to your home or office to repair or maintain your garage door. But what if the overhead door that you need to repair or maintain isn’t on your home or office garage? What if your overhead door is a mobile door on the backside of your trailer?

The overhead doors that roll up in the back of a truck or trailer are very similar to the garage door in a garage. Most of the parts are the same. The required experience and expertise to maintain and repair an overhead door in the back of a truck or trailer is quite similar.

If the overhead door in the back of your truck or trailer breaks down, you have a problem. Business can come to a screeching halt until the overhead door is fixed. This makes access to an overhead repair service that can respond quickly imperative. It also makes timely overhead door maintenance crucial.

Maintenance of the overhead door on the back of your truck or trailer will go a long way towards keeping you on the road and in service.

Imagine if your overhead door gets stuck in the upright position. What will you do with valuable equipment and merchandise in the back of the truck or trailer? How will you protect it?

What if the overhead door gets stuck in the closed position? How will you access equipment and merchandise in the back of the truck or trailer?

Most often, an overhead door in the back or a truck or trailer will break while in use. What if it collapses as you’re opening or closing the overhead door? What if the spring breaks and parts go shooting off the overhead door mechanism like bullets? When an overhead door breaks, someone could get hurt. That someone could be you. Embarrassingly, it could also be someone else.

Rather than wait until you require repairs, it’s a good idea to find an overhead door company that can maintain and repair the overhead door on the back of your truck or trailer before you have an emergency.

Maintenance is critical for overhead doors at your Crystal Lake business

Folks in Crystal Lake generally have one or two garage doors to maintain, though many neglect that maintenance until the need for maintenance turns to the need for repairs or replacement. You, on the other hand, have a warehouse of overhead doors to maintain. You can’t afford to allow yourself to fall behind maintaining all those overhead doors.

You understand that maintenance is inexpensive insurance to keep your overhead doors operating properly.

When an overhead door breaks down, it’s not just a matter of the cost of repair or replacement; it’s also a question of losing access to that particular loading dock. If the overhead door breaks in the upright position, you may also have to board up the opening until repairs to the overhead door are implemented.

Your overhead doors see a lot more use, and receive a lot more abuse than the garage door at the Crystal Lake home of someone nearby. Forklifts are liable to run skids into the rails for the overhead doors. There’s more ‘stuff’ in the air with your loading docks than folks generally see in the garages at their homes. The doors themselves will experience strikes from forklifts and other equipment.

Keeping the doors clean and properly lubricated is essential and a greater challenge with all that activity going on in your loading docks. And there are dollars depending on the continued smooth operation of your overhead doors.

The best way to ensure the continued smooth operation of your overhead doors is to establish a relationship with professionals dedicated to servicing overhead doors. You want someone who will be there when you need them, will have the tools, materials and equipment needed to maintain and repair your overhead doors properly, and will have the knowledge and experience to expeditiously do the job right.

On the other hand, you could wait until you have a problem and then scramble to find someone to help with your overhead doors. There are plenty of companies who service the Crystal Lake area. Unfortunately, they’re not all the same. Some are more experienced and have better reputations than others. It’s more difficult to determine the difference when you’re scrambling to find someone in an emergency.