Our shop offers a wide range of services including engine repair, brake service, transmission repair, oil changes, and more.
Yes, we only use genuine Peterbilt parts for repairs to ensure the highest quality and compatibility with your vehicle.
Our technicians are highly experienced and trained specifically in working on Peterbilt trucks, ensuring that your vehicle is in good hands.
Yes, we offer towing services to help bring your Peterbilt truck to our repair shop for service.
Our shop is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, and on Saturdays from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm for your convenience.
Yes, we offer warranties on all repairs and parts used in your Peterbilt truck to provide you with peace of mind and assurance of quality service.
Every make fails in its own way. These are the jobs that come through the bays in Tacoma on Peterbilt units — 579, 567, 389 and the vocational 348 — running Paccar MX-13 and Cummins X15.
Same engine family as Kenworth, same failure pattern: EGR valve and cooler, DEF dosing, plugged filters and the derate that follows.
567 and 348 units doing short, heavy, high-cycle work wear brakes, suspension and driveline far faster than the highway trucks. We set PM intervals against the duty cycle, not the odometer.
The routine roadside call, and the one most easily prevented at PM.
Older chassis, more accessories, more connectors — intermittent faults that need tracing rather than parts.
The order matters more than the tool. We pull codes and freeze-frame data, read the history rather than the active fault, and measure before anything comes off the truck. On an aftertreatment complaint that means soot load, differential pressure and regen history; on an electrical complaint it means tracing the circuit instead of replacing the component the code names. You get a written estimate before the work starts, and a road test after it.
Two reasons, and neither is price alone. The shop sits at 1616 E 26th St inside the Port of Tacoma industrial area, so a drayage tractor is minutes away rather than an hour — and while the truck sits, the box on the chassis is accruing per-diem. And we work the trailer as well as the tractor, so a unit with an engine fault and a trailer ABS lamp is one visit and one invoice.
Related reading: Paccar MX common problems.
Call (425) 900-6212 or book a slot. We are open Monday to Friday 8:00–18:00 and Saturday 8:00–16:00, and we run mobile and roadside service across the South Sound when the truck cannot come to us. Shop labour starts at $130 per hour; a DOT annual inspection is $80.
1616 E 26th St, Tacoma, WA 98421
Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday: Closed
