Make sure to take country differences and tire laws into consideration



When you choose tires for your truck fleet, make sure that you know about weather conditions and local tire regulations of the countries, so that the trucks can handle the weather conditions and that you are not braking any laws. If the law requires that you in a certain country, need to have commercial winter tires, you will need to have it. You also need to have it on all the tires on the truck including the trailer. There is not really any way around that one. The extra safety, should make up for the fact that you might end up having double sets of tires or you can get tires that can be used all year round, even in summer conditions despite being winter-approved.



Another important tire decision factor can be, if the truck tires also need to handle both on and off road conditions. This is common in for example forestry, where the trucks have to enter the landing through smaller roads that can be very muddy and can have rocks and other sharp debris. If this is the case you will need to have on and off road tires that can handle these conditions without getting stuck or having the tires damaged.

There is a good selection of tires that can handle all the different conditions as described above and some can handle almost everything in the same tires if they are optimized for that. The challenge is to know ahead of time all the conditions that your fleet will work within. The trick is often to have, as much knowledge before purchasing the truck tires about what will be the conditions that the tires will be exposed to.

Once this is done, then you will need to make sure that you maintain the tires properly with the right maintenance both by the drivers and with the in-house service department, so that the tires that you have invested in will provide you with long trouble free service life. Tire problems will need to be detected early to prevent bigger and costlier problems. Avoiding accidents and unscheduled downtime is the main goal of an in-house preventive maintenance department aiming at eliminating these problems and costs in order to improve the productivity. Companies that master it tend to do the best.

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