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Managing multiple truck and trailer fleets can oftentimes feel overwhelming, especially when you have limited day-to-day visibility to the status and maintenance needs of your assets. Specifically, one of the most essential components of a truck and trailer is its tires – understanding the tire lifecycle can help keep trailers full and trucks moving. Without the right tools and strategies to ensure proper tire care, you run the risk of unplanned maintenance, emergency roadside service events and slowed productivity. To optimize your fleet management strategy, prioritizing tire maintenance and implementing connected fleet technology for enhanced tire performance can optimize your fleet’s production and reduce costly downtime.
Smart Predictive Tire, part of MICHELIN Connected Fleet’s suite of solutions, combines trailer tracking with advanced tire insights to help fleets anticipate and control costs, including those related to trailer and tire maintenance. It is designed to provide the tools and information fleet operators and managers need to manage their fleets daily and transform their operational efficiency easily. Unlike typical tire pressure monitoring solutions (TPMS), Smart Predictive Tire helps you shift from reactive maintenance to predictive performance.
In this blog, MICHELIN Connected Fleet outlines how smart tire solutions can help you prevent emergency roadside service events, gain visibility into your trailers’ locations and reduce fuel consumption, improving costs, safety and efficiency.
Tire Performance
Tire performance directly impacts trailer fleet productivity. By monitoring tire performance, including tire temperature and pressure, you can assess the status of your tires and overall vehicle health. When tires are underinflated, they can increase rolling resistance, which affects fuel consumption and impacts driving conditions. This can lead to potential safety risks as well as operational delays, costly repairs and increased downtime.
By implementing Spart Predictive Tire as part of your trailer management plan, you go beyond traditional TPMS solutions by assessing how over- or under-inflation accelerates tire wear, including for tire retreads. By correcting inflation, you can reduce replacement frequency and lower the total cost of ownership, even if you're already retreading. With advanced tire monitoring tools in place, like Smart Predictive Tire, you can help extend overall tire life by 9% and keep your operations moving forward.
incident management
According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, the global vehicle roadside assistance market size is expected to grow from USD 24.34 billion in 2023 to USD 35.73 billion by 2030. With a predicted uptick in emergency roadside assistance needs, it’s imperative that your trailer management strategy include preventive measures. Poor tire maintenance and health can be a contributing factor to potential on-the-road safety risks and unplanned roadside maintenance events.
To reduce emergency roadside service (ERS) events, consider turning to real-time monitoring solutions. Smart Predictive Tire offers tire pressure and temperature real-time monitoring, plus predictive insights to help you understand exactly when a tire issue needs to be addressed. This can help identify early signs of tire issues or potential breakdowns, allowing you to take a proactive approach to tire maintenance and trailer safety. When you implement solutions like Smart Predictive Tire, you can help prevent up to 80%* of ERS events on the road.
asset visibility
Another key component of trailer optimization is gaining visibility into trailer location and utilization. When operating multiple trucks and trailers, it is your responsibility to keep track of ongoing, upcoming, and completed trips and deliveries. Without the proper systems and processes in place, it is easy to miss route opportunities and lose track of orders, which can harm operational efficiency and overall business productivity.
Smart Predictive Tire goes beyond just tires. Knowing where and how your trailers are being used can help you track detention and utilization, simplifying billing and increasing on-time deliveries and productivity. With Smart Predictive Tire in your arsenal, you can easily gain real-time, actionable insights into your trailer’s location and how they are being used, providing complete visibility and helping inform business decisions.
fuel efficiency
Lastly, fuel efficiency can affect fleet costs and productivity. When your drivers exhibit poor driving behaviors, such as harsh braking and speeding, fuel is quickly wasted. The same applies when tires are not performing properly – increased tire pressure or temperature can lead to increased fuel consumption, affecting your CO2 emissions, costs, efficiency, and more.
Smart Predictive Tire helps optimize tire pressure and performance with pressure and temperature monitoring, while also reducing fuel costs and lowering CO2 emissions. In fact, fuel consumption can be reduced up to 4%* with properly inflated tires.
MICHELIN Connected Fleet knows smart tires
A trailer optimization strategy starts with connected fleet technology. By leveraging advanced tire solutions like Smart Predictive Tire from MICHELIN Connected Fleet, you can rely on real-time monitoring for insights into tire health, trailer location, and vehicle utilization. And with tire pressure and temperature alerts, you’re helping your drivers avoid unexpected events on the road, while also providing the opportunity to manage your maintenance schedules more effectively.
Ready to reduce your costs, improve your productivity and ensure the safety of your drivers? Contact us today to schedule a complimentary demo and learn more about MICHELIN Connected Fleet’s Smart Predictive Tire solution.
*Results based on pilot programs conducted with customers in international markets; not reflective of U.S. customer data.
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Written by The MICHELIN Connected Fleet Team
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