Tyre
Tip 1 - Truck Tyre Selection
A glance through any tyre manufacturer's brochure will confirm there
is quite a vast selection of truck tyres available to the average
user. It will also clearly indicate that there are specific designs
and patterns for specific jobs.
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Tyre Tip 2 - Truck Tyre Fuel Economy
We all know there's not much you get for free these days, but it
would be nice in the case of your truck tyres that they could
contribute to their own expense. I'm talking about being aware of
what you can do to improve your truck's fuel economy performance via
the tyres, and also what we see in the future in new tyre designs.
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Tyre Tip 3 - Maintaining Your Tyres
We are all aware of the necessity to operate truck tyres within the
recommended parameters of correct inflation pressures, alignment
settings, loading, speed, and eventually remove the tyres when the
treadwear indicators tell us it's time. But what is the bottom line
when these factors are not quite optimum, what does it cost us
through not maintaining our tyres?
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Tyre Tip 4 - Inflations
Have you ever thought of what you are asking of those two new tyres
you just put on the front of your truck?
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Tyre Tip 5 - Dimensions & Loads
Quite often questions are asked about how dimensions and loads of
truck tyres are established by the various tyre manufacturers.
Surprisingly, many people do not expect rubber based, flexible
components to be closely controlled by industry regulations.
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Tyre Tip 6 - Truck Tyre Noise
For some of us the sound of a powerful truck accelerating up through
the gears or cruising past may be heaven on earth, but to others
perhaps living adjacent to a freeway, it could be just plain
objectionable noise that they have to cope with in their everyday
life. Not only that, but if we turn the noise inwards (so to speak),
high levels of cabin noise can be fatiguing to the occupants and
thereby a safety issue.
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Tyre Tip 7 - Truck Tyre Failure
When we talk zipper failures, most males conjure up images of
embarrassing episodes such as standing around at meetings or parties
with their trouser fly undone. Or even a close encounter of a
painful kind, whereby certain parts of one's anatomy becomes
entangled in a zipper!
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Tyre Tip 8 - Operating Costs
In earlier articles, we discussed the necessity for the truck
fleet operator to be aware of the influence of tyres on his
operating costs. As we said at the time, tyres follow fuel to be the
second most costly operational expense item, and any saving that can
be achieved is directly off that critical bottom line. Even a modest
5 percent overall improvement can reduce an annual fleet fuel bill
of $100,000 by $5,000. Enough to bank roll their next set of drive
tyres!
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Tyre Tip 9 - Truck tyre testing assignment
Just recently, after completing an extensive truck tyre testing
assignment for one of our overseas partners who supply a proportion
of the truck tyres we distribute in here in Australia, I reflected
on the disparate requirements for tyres around the world. For
instance, what would be perfectly acceptable for, say, treadlife in
a European country may not be acceptable in a country such as our
own due to the distances we travel and in a harsher environment.
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