The four pillars of your true tire costs

摘要

Typically there are four pillars to determine your true cost: Initial tire cost, mileage to removal, fuel efficiency and retreadability (or casing value). The best way to determine what's best for your operation is to test tires by developing an ongoing tire evaluation program and comparing the tires you currently run with a possible newcomer to your fleet. Granted, it's not easy. You have to track tires and take tread measurements; you have to maintain excellent maintenance practices to ensure inflation levels are correct, and that alignments stay true. And, to get results that will give you accurate information, you need to run the test tires for long haul operations to 50% to 60% of their wearable tread depth. If you don't have the bandwidth to conduct exhaustive testing, you can still do a valid evaluation and get results that give you confidence in what to expect from selected tire brands.