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What are the signs for a misaligned truck?

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Picture this; You’re driving on the highway from Pretoria to Cape Town. Following the speed limits and suddenly your truck pulls to a side. Not sure of the cause but you keep on driving you have a deadline to meet. This is tiresome, you have to fight to keep the truck straight. You are already running late because you had to stop for fuel more than what you anticipated. Once you reach the destination you notice that your new tyres that you fitted for this trip, has rapid tyre wear-beyond repair. What do you do?? Nothing else but to buy new tyres and repeat the process?! Unless you could have prevented the cause all together. We have come across a few questions about bad alignment or also known as bad wheel alignment, but the correct term is: misalignment. a few key factors was chosen out of numerous signs that could point to misalignment to provide better clarity on the subject; · Tyre wear on the inner or outer sides of the tyres. Wave type of wear and...