Long Road Repair · Tacoma, WA
Our full-service shop sits at 1616 E 26th St in Tacoma, minutes from the Port. We keep heavy-duty trucks, trailers and drayage fleets moving across the South Puget Sound with in-shop repair plus mobile and roadside service throughout the region.
Call (425) 900-6212Local semi-truck repair, DOT inspections, brakes, alignment, tires, AC, electrical and roadside — near you.
Call first, then read. A dispatcher confirms the real ETA for your exact location — we will not quote you a number from a map.
Have ready: your location (mile marker or cross street), truck or trailer, what it is doing, whether you are loaded, and whether you are somewhere safe. That is the whole conversation — it takes a minute and it decides whether we send a truck or tell you to keep rolling to the shop.
Distances are approximate road miles from the shop at 1616 E 26th St in the Tacoma tideflats. Bands are how the work is actually dispatched, not a marketing radius.
Tacoma, Fife, Milton, Edgewood, Puyallup, University Place. This is our own doorstep and the reason the shop is where it is. A drayage tractor that goes down at Husky, WUT or PCT is minutes away, and minutes matter here because the box on the chassis is accruing per-diem while the truck sits.
Federal Way, Sumner, Lakewood, Parkland, Spanaway, Auburn, Pacific, Algona, Frederickson, Bonney Lake, Gig Harbor, Kent. Straight runs on I-5, SR-167 and SR-512. Most mobile calls we take land in this band, and most of them are air leaks, no-starts, tires, batteries and lights.
DuPont, Des Moines, SeaTac, Tukwila, Renton, Burien, Covington, Orting, Graham, Lacey, Buckley. Regularly served, scheduled rather than instant — at this distance a truck rolling to you is a real block of a technician's day, and the dispatcher will tell you honestly whether waiting for us beats coming in.
Seattle, Olympia, Tumwater, Maple Valley, Enumclaw, Yelm, Port Orchard, Bremerton, Silverdale, Centralia, Chehalis. We go, and fleets in this ring do run with us — but for a single truck it is usually cheaper to bring the unit to Tacoma than to pay for a technician to drive an hour each way. We will say so on the phone rather than after.
The honest split. A mobile call that was never going to work is the most expensive hour in this business — yours and ours.
It is not a coincidence and it is the practical argument for using us.
1616 E 26th St is inside the Port of Tacoma industrial area, minutes from the container terminals and a straight run to I-5 and SR-167. For a drayage operation that is the difference between a tractor going down and the load still making its appointment. For an over-the-road truck it means you come off the freeway, get diagnosed, and get an answer the same day instead of waiting for a dealer slot next week.
We work the whole unit — tractor and trailer — so a truck with a brake problem and a trailer with an ABS fault is one visit, not two vendors and two invoices.
Across the four bands above, out to roughly fifty miles. Inside twenty miles it is routine. Beyond thirty it becomes a scheduling decision, and the dispatcher will tell you on the phone whether a roadside call or a tow to the shop is the cheaper answer for your situation.
No — there is one shop, at 1616 E 26th St in Tacoma, and mobile units that run out of it. We would rather say that than list a fake address in every city. What you get instead is one team, one set of records on your unit, and the same people on the phone every time.
Both, and that is deliberate. Air systems, ABS, suspension, landing gear, doors, floors, lights and welding on trailers; the full tractor side as well. One visit covers the whole rig.
It depends on distance, time of day and what the truck needs, so we quote it on the call rather than publishing a number that would be wrong for most jobs. Shop labour starts at $130 per hour, a DOT annual inspection is $80 and a CARB emissions inspection is $150.
Yes, and the useful version is to pre-inspect first: we find what would fail, you decide what to fix, then we inspect. That is one visit instead of two, which matters more than the inspection fee.
Yes. Fleets get priority scheduling, inspection due-date tracking and maintenance records per unit. If you run more than a handful of trucks in the South Sound, that is a conversation worth having before the next breakdown rather than during it.