Tructyre masters care for your tyres

Badly worn tyres with sidewall damage can fail suddenly and leave a truck stranded at the side of the road, not to mention posing a road safety hazard.

Tructyre offers a fleet inspection service under the Mastercare banner designed to ensure tyre problems are spotted before they become a major issue. It can then arrange for appropriate remedial action to be taken.

If it has all the details of an operator’s fleet, it can record the condition of each tyre that has been inspected and highlight those that have yet to be seen.

Tructyre area sales manager Ian Kelly said: “The latter are red-flagged after three months have elapsed and we still haven’t been able to look at them.”

Vechocheck expands operator offering with update to incident reporting system

Compliance and fleet management software provider Vechocheck has revamped its incident reporting system.

The system is now more closely aligned with insurance claim requirements, making it a more streamlined process for operators.

Vechocheck’s data management dashboard is evolving and director of technology Lukas Gamble said: “[If there are] any customer requirements that are outside of our software, within reason, we’ll build it. This means we can offer this solution to other customers and continue to expand our offering by listening to what our customers need.” sold mainly into the two Irish markets, as well as across the UK.

A key focus for Vechocheck is making cost analysis data visible and easy to interpret in charts and graphs.

Product manager for construction and agriculture Stefan Küfner said: “The rigid tipper is brand new for the UK; it is on a Renault C440 8x4, and has Hyva [wet kit] equipment.”

The complete vehicle weighs about 14 tonnes, he added.

“It is a steel body for heavy-duty work. It has a 6mm skin on the floor and 5mm on the sidewalls. We can also provide the subframe for the build.”

Swift contact with insurers saves costs

Some truck insurers will waive any excess if you notify them of a claim within 24 hours of an incident occurring, said Jill Goodrich, commercial account manager at Ascott Insurance Brokers.

They appreciate that the greater the gap between the incident and notification, the more the size of the claim is likely to escalate.

“Operators are now fitting dashcams with a button the driver can hit if there is an incident,” Goodrich said.

The footage goes straight to a claims specialist, who can respond accordingly.