productivity suffers if your employees have to stop working to deal with overheated tires or replace blown-out tires. Yes, monitoring and recording temperature takes time, but addressing tire failure and blowouts take even longer, and it comes with additional costs on top of time alone.
Tire Longevity
Next to labor, equipment costs represent the largest portion of construction overhead. So anything you can do to keep those costs low improves your bottom line. Experts estimate that large equipment tires typically last between 4,000 and 10,000 operating hours. However, if you don’ t take care of them, you’ ll shorten their life and have to replace them much sooner. Heavy equipment tires can cost $ 400 to $ 3,000 or more per tire, so every extra hour and mile counts. Caring for your tires— including monitoring temperatures— can save your company thousands of dollars over the course of a year. That puts
Know the optimal temperature range for your large-equipment tires, and only operate when air and tire temperatures are in the safe range.
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