Tire Bytes

December 2017 – How healthy are your tires? A snapshot is worth a 1,000 words!With tire data stored in the cloud, the Maintenance Dashboard visually summarizes a fleet’s tire maintenance performance based on its real-time metrics.

November 2017 – A leading telematics supplier recently released afleet survey highlighting that 39% of fleet executives need to reduce their operational costs. What is surprising is that no one identified what should be done to actually drive these savings: better tire maintenance!

October 2017 – A respected industry source for tire analytics published its annual data book on commercial tire dealer profits and it was a shocker!  Tire dealers’ largest profits come from emergency road service which you have no alternative to paying.

September 2017 – In June 2017, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance placed out-of-service nearly one of every four trucks that received comprehensive Level I inspections during its International Roadcheck. The top three out-of-service vehicle violations during this initiative were for brake systems (26.9%), cargo securement (15.7%) and tires and wheels (15.1%). Brakes and tires have always scored the largest violations in CVSA inspections, but it doesn’t have to be that way anymore.

February 2018 – TireVigil Cloud's Savings Dashboard measures savings from mining your tire data and changes tire maintenance forever!

January 2019 – Over the last several years TMC's Tire & Wheel Study Group has developed Recommended Practices to prevent wheels from coming off vehicles while they roll down the road. Unfortunately, wheel-offs still happen more frequently than any fleet likes.

October 2018 – The Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) recently presented a panel discussing the causes of vehicle fires and actions taken to eliminate them.

November 2019 – Here’s a real news flash: Winter is coming! Do you know you should winterize your fleet for optimum and safe tire performance? Your trucks are going to be plowing down the nation’s highways in hail, sleet, slush, and snow even when you decide it’s too miserable to venture out of your house.