tyres

Reading Buses has committed to a new five-year deal with Michelin, citing the quality of the product and high levels of customer service as the key reasons behind the decision. The new contract will see Michelin’s Services and Solutions Division…

Commercial fleets around the globe have long enjoyed the benefits of Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS), which have grown in popularity over the years to improve road safety, increase fleet operators’ reliability and cut their costs. Highways England has calculated…

Go-Ahead has signed a three-year extension to its Michelin Effitires tyre management contract. Michelin says the deal with one of the UK’s largest providers of public transport was secured due to the quality of its products and high standards of…

Bridgestone has launched its first all-season tyre for the light truck segment. The DURAVIS All Season has been designed with both small and large fleet operations in mind, enabling them to use the same tyre all year round. The company…

Goodyear has launched a tracker app to help fleets to accurately measure the condition of their vehicles’ tyres and reduce downtime. The Goodyear Fleet Tracker app allows fleet managers to pinpoint the right time to plan tyre maintenance and to…

Ashcourt Group, the Hull-based transport and haulage operator, has developed a tyre-management strategy with Continental Tyres and local dealer Adams Tyres, that has reduced running costs by an estimated 20 percent. The Group operates a fleet of 79 vehicles including…

Late last year, the European Commission began investigating new truck and bus tyres from China and their impact on European retread sales. This led the EC to implement regulation that requires new and retreaded truck tyres imported from China to…

BFGoodrich is to sell its first ever range of tyres for trucks, buses and coaches in the UK and Ireland. The firm currently sells more than 1.6 million tyres for commercial vehicles outside of Europe, but from January 2018 BFGoodrich…

Component distributor Euro Car Parts has appointed ATS Euromaster as a key partner supplier to fit and maintain tyres on its fleet of 2,400 cars, vans and HGVs.   The new deal also means Euro Car Parts’ operations team will…

Almost every other HGV tyre in the EU is a retread. Perhaps this is little wonder, because since 2004 the debate as to whether retread tyres are up to the job has all but disappeared due to the E-109 mark…