A professional who repairs and aligns defective wheels of automotive vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, and trucks. Responsibilities include:

• Examines wheel rims, drums, discs, and wire spokes for damage.
• Hammers out warps in wheel rim, or places wheel rim in hydraulic press and forces rim into shape with pry bar or hydraulic jacks.
• Repairs damaged wire spokes, using straightening press, and replaces broken or missing spokes.
• Examines alignment of wheels on test stand equipped with dial indicator gauge for measuring radial and lateral tolerance.
• Corrects alignment of wheels, using handtools.