How Tire Monitoring Cuts Roadside Calls and Increases Tire TCO
Recently, Continental explained how underinflation wreaks havoc on a fleet's operating costs, and that tire monitoring can reduce costly blowouts and improve retreadability, leading to better total cost of ownership.
It’s no secret that an underinflated tire can initiate a financially painful domino effect in a fleet’s operations. Low psi creates weak spots in a tire’s sidewall and over time increases the likelihood of a blowout. That in turn waylays the truck which must wait for emergency roadside assistance. By now, the losses are approaching four figures.
“You not only have to pay for the cost of replacing the tire, you have to pay for somebody to come out there and service the vehicle,” noted Sam Brackett, Continental Tire’s digital solutions manager for the Americas, on a recent Fleet Maintenance webchat. “You're losing opportunities; when the truck's not running, you're not making money.”