Research & studies conducted around the world show that around 80 percent of medium to heavy vehicles are incorrectly aligned, or have a mis-alignment. If your truck, trailer or bus has incorrectly aligned wheels & axles, you have what we call increased rolling resistance when travelling on the road. This means the engine is working harder than required to push the truck along the road, and the end result is an increase in fuel consumption. Given that fuel can account for up to 50% of the operating costs of a truck or fleet, smart operators must explore all avenues to reduce fuel consumption.
Generally speaking, correcting even slight alignment issues have been shown to result in a saving of 3 – 10 percent on fuel.

3% doesn’t sound too significant does it? Lets take a closer look – One truck runs Brisbane to Sydney (return) 3 times a week (6,000 kms). That’s 312,000 kms a year. Fuel consumption average is 1.85 litres/km. That’s 577,200 litres, current local prices are around $1.49 per litre. Fuel cost for the year – $860,028.00. If you reduced fuel consumption by 3%, you would save $25,800.84!!
Your scenario may be different, but you can see that small changes can make a big difference to the bottom line of your business. There are other areas where you can save on running costs, which will be covered in another article.

If you own one truck or one hundred, and you are not having a regular truck wheel alignment performed as part of your maintenance schedule, you really need to contact your local truck wheel alignment specialist for a chat.

Truckologist is a mobile truck wheel alignment business based in Brisbane, Australia.

A good logo enhances brand value, it gives you an edge over the competition, it identifies you, it makes you memorable and it captivates your target audience. There are several mistakes that people commonly make in logo design Brisbane. Understanding these mistakes will help you avoid falling into the same trap.

People often make the mistake of not translating the logo for different cultures and into different languages. You should learn from Coca Cola who have their logo in different languages, but still identifiable as the Coca Cola logo (such as Koka Kola in Cyrillic).

Many people fail to do design protection after logo design Brisbane. Protect the logo through international Intellectual Property organizations so that it cannot be stolen by other people or institutions. This is important because conventional trademark registration is limited in that you cannot lay claim to such things as the color used.

Avoid the common mistake of having a logo that is too realistic or overly complex. The best logo is one that is symbolic and simple. If you try to bring in too many design concepts, there is a risk that your logo will be confusing.

Although you do not want an overly complex logo, this is not an excuse to have a poorly designed logo. Your logo should maximize on the use of negative and positive space. The shape and the color should work well together.

Unoriginal and clichéd logos are all too common. This is a dangerous logo design Brisbane because your logo will be boring and will not attract new clients. Ensure that your logo has some movement – a simple company name inside a circle will not do. It is important that the logo is very different from that of your competitors.

Google ‘bad logos’ and you will find many logs that have unintended implications/subliminal meanings. It is important that you test your logo by having different people look at it during the logo design Brisbane stage to ensure there are no unintended implications.

You should not follow trends during logo design because trends change. Avoid bit map/raster images in your logo because these are not scalable. You should not use too many typestyles/fonts as this would be look messed up and not appealing.

There are many logo design templates available on the Internet, but you should avoid them in favor of experienced professionals, customized logo design. This will give you a unique logo. A logo design Brisbane professional has the training, experience, and tools necessary to do a good job.

Content organisation -
The grid system used by Brisbane graphic designers is a method of laying out content, in order to organise that content in a certain way. By using margins, lines, columns, rows, and grids, the system allows designers to properly arrange things out on a page, and lay them out in the most precise manner. Depending on the detail of the site, the content that is being laid out, and the manner in which it is to be seen by the end viewer, one grid, or a combination of grids can be used through all the pages on a site, in order to keep a uniform style, and to lay out the information and content in a certain manner to the end viewer of the site. Once the end result is displayed on screen (or in a magazine, newspaper, etc), the grid lines are no longer seen, but you can still see the consistent pattern if you look through all content, on all pages.

Types of grids and uses -
When graphic designers Brisbane choose the grid layout for site content, there is really no limit as to how many grids can or should be used, how they should be laid out, or how they should be created. It is simply used as a guide, to help lay out content, and give the pages some uniformity throughout. There is a common layout when it comes to grids, and some of the modifications or additions that can be made include:
- Equally sized 2, 3, or 4 column grids, which have a header at the top of the page, and full page grid of squares.
- Varied line, border, and width columns can be created using this basic pattern.
- Changes of page sises which allow for unique page designs, and content layout.
Using the grid system is a great way to lay out any page; it is a simple way to see all the content that will be used on the page, and how it will look once you are finished. Using the grids also allows designers to see whether everything fits together on the pages, how it looks, and whether changes should be made, prior to actually adding content to the sites.

Break out of grids -
Graphic designers Brisbane use the grid as a premise for design, and content layout; but, once the grid is established, and all content has been laid out, it is up to different designers how they are going to, if they are going to, and at which points in the page they are going to break out of the grid. Simple because designers break out of the traditional “grid”, does not mean that the entire system is ignored by designers; as a matter of fact, they use the grid system in many aspects of design and page layout.

Instead of throwing out the grid system, designers may choose to cross over from one grid to the next on the page layout, they choose to extend certain elements to different areas on the grid, possibly extend page breaks to create continual content, and so forth. By breaking out of the grid, designers are able to create a unique layout, they are able to create distinct content, and they are able to design a page and content that is best suited for the client that they are creating that content for.

Like any other guide or premise, Logo design Brisbane use the traditional grid system as a starting point for laying out content. It creates uniformity on a page, allows them to see what looks best where, and eventually it allows them to create, modify, and recreate the grid, in order to design a truly unique site, and one that is the best possible layout for the client they are working with.