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Carter’s Pull-Point Technology collates critical tyre data, including tyre tread measuring carried out at its depots nationwide
Predicting when tyres will wear out Story Dave McLeod & Wayne Munro KIWI TYRE SPECIALIST HAS DEVELOPED A TYRE LIFE management/monitoring system it believes is a world-first – able to accurately predict when a tyre will wear out. Carter’s Tyre Service says that data from its “groundbreaking” Pull-Point Technology (PPT) has shown that many (if not most) of its clients were replacing tyres way before they needed to…. In fact, up to 30% early….and sometimes, when the tyre was only half-worn!
The system it has developed, which it believes is the world’s first predictive PPT software, thus “not only guarantees cost savings, but also keeps fleets safer.” Carter’s says that PPT uses rich data sets to provide accurate realtime information on every tyre in a fleet. It collates comprehensive information including truck configuration, transport application, tyre positioning, geographic terrain, the brand and pattern of the tyre…plus tyre tread details. The latter is, it says, the result of manually measuring tread, Truck & Driver | 81
