Casey’s General Store Approved Vendor — Fleet, Tanker & Trailer Repair

Ames Hydraulics is an approved Casey’s General Store repair vendor for tanker trailer repair, fleet truck work, aluminum welding, and hydraulic service. Casey’s fleet supervisors, procurement staff, and shop maintenance personnel who need a vendor already set up in the Casey’s system for hydraulic, welding, or fleet-equipment repair can send trucks and trailers directly to our shop without a new-vendor onboarding cycle. If you are a Casey’s employee reading this page trying to figure out who is approved to handle a specific piece of Casey’s equipment — we’re on the list, and we’re set up to handle the categories of work below.

What We Do For Casey’s Fleet Equipment

Casey’s runs a substantial fleet of over-the-road tractors, fuel tanker trailers, refrigerated trailers, dry-van trailers, box trucks, and shop vehicles across the Midwest. Our Casey’s vendor scope covers the categories that drop most often in fleet service:

• Stainless fuel tanker trailer repair — aluminum weld repair, structural weldments, hitch and landing gear service, fifth-wheel plate reinforcement, brake and suspension mechanical work
• Refrigerated trailer body repair — aluminum skin welding, floor repair, structural crossmember weld work, kingpin plate repair (we do not do reefer unit refrigeration service — that goes to your Thermo King or Carrier dealer)
• Dry-van trailer body and structural repair — aluminum and steel welding, floor work, kingpin
• Fleet tractor hydraulic and PTO work — wet-kit installation and service, fifth-wheel plate replacement, hoist cylinders on any hoist-equipped tractor
• Aluminum welding on tanker skin, saddle tanks, headache racks, and fuel tank saddles
• Hydraulic cylinder rebuilds and hydraulic pump repair on any fleet equipment
• PTO service on any fleet vehicle

Why Casey’s Ships Fleet Work To Ames Hydraulics

The value of an already-approved Casey’s vendor versus routing a repair to a new shop is turnaround. When a fuel tanker needs an aluminum weld repair, or a fleet tractor needs a wet-kit service, or a trailer needs a floor patch, sending it to an approved vendor means the truck gets fixed and back on the road without new-vendor paperwork. We understand the Casey’s paperwork process, invoicing expectations, and repair-record documentation requirements. Written estimate before we start on any repair over three shop hours. Pressure-test documentation on hydraulic work. Photo record on structural welds. Clean invoicing that fits your accounting system without a fight.

Aluminum Welding On Casey’s Stainless Fuel Tankers

The most common Casey’s repair category we see is aluminum weld work on fuel tanker trailers. Stainless-clad aluminum tanker skins take real abuse over years of daily fuel-delivery service. Common failure modes: skin panel cracks at stress-concentration points along the frame, saddle-mount weldments that fatigue from cumulative shock load, catwalk and rail weldments, and manway/dome-cover mounting flange repair. We handle all of it with a dedicated aluminum-welding setup, a welder built up specifically on the material, and clean pre-weld surface prep on every job. Tanker weld work at our shop includes tank purging protocol before we strike an arc — we require a written tank-clean or nitrogen-purge sign-off before we weld any tank that held fuel. That’s a safety line we don’t cross.

Fleet Tractor And Trailer Structural Repair

Beyond aluminum work, we handle the mechanical, hydraulic, and structural side of Casey’s tractors and trailers. Trailer floor repair with aluminum or plywood-composite floor panels, kingpin plate replacement, landing gear service, brake and suspension mechanical work (drums, shoes, air-brake mechanical components — not ABS or air-system electronic diagnostics), fifth-wheel plate repair and replacement, and general trailer frame welding. On the tractor side: wet-kit installation, hydraulic cylinder work on hoist-equipped tractors, PTO service, and structural frame welding.

Scope We Don’t Handle On Casey’s Equipment

Honest scope: we do not do refrigeration service on reefer units (Thermo King or Carrier authorized dealer only), we do not do DPF/DEF/emissions troubleshooting on tractors, we do not do engine internals, we do not do ECU or ABS electronic diagnostics, and we do not do DOT annual inspections. Those specific categories belong at Casey’s-approved specialists for each area — typically the truck-brand dealer or a reefer-authorized shop. What we own is mechanical, hydraulic, aluminum weld, and structural work — the categories that represent most fleet repair spend on stable-generation equipment.

How Casey’s Supervisors Send Work To Us

If you are a Casey’s fleet supervisor, shop manager, or procurement contact wanting to send a truck or trailer to us, contact 515-292-2599 with equipment ID, failure description, and desired turnaround window. We confirm shop capacity and set up drop-off. Our shop is in Ames, Iowa, easily accessible from Casey’s Ankeny headquarters and central Iowa distribution operations. We handle over-the-road tractor drop-off, trailer drop-off, and coordinate transport where a piece of equipment isn’t drivable. Every job goes through our normal Casey’s-vendor process: written estimate, work performed, pressure-test or weld documentation as applicable, clean invoice.

Preventive Fleet Maintenance For Casey’s Assets

The economics of preventive Casey’s tanker and trailer maintenance versus reactive repair are strong. A trailer floor that gets inspected and spot-repaired on a scheduled basis outlasts a floor that fails catastrophically mid-route. An aluminum tanker weldment inspected at the same time as trailer PM catches stress cracks before they propagate. Wet-kit hydraulic service on hoist-equipped tractors caught at rod-seal weep costs a fraction of a full circuit rebuild after contamination hits the pump. We do preventive fleet inspections at your convenience — call to set up a fleet-review window.

Casey’s Vendor Status & Getting Set Up

Ames Hydraulics is an active Casey’s vendor. If your specific Casey’s team hasn’t sent us work before but wants to, no additional onboarding is typically needed — we’re already in the Casey’s system, our documentation is on file, and payment terms are set. Just call 515-292-2599 with your equipment need and we’ll set up the drop-off. If your Casey’s business unit does need vendor confirmation before sending work, we can provide our vendor documentation same-day to your accounts payable or shop maintenance team. This page exists for Casey’s employees searching to confirm we’re an approved vendor — yes, we are, and we’re ready to handle your work.