Michelin Tires Goes On Tour To Promote New Efficient Tires

Michelin Tires is going on tour to share the message "Go Wide. Save Green."

Michelin Tires has set up a special site at www.gowidesavegreen.com and is going coast-to-coast to share what thousands of fleets have already learned - environmentally-friendly transportation makes good business sense.

Michelin's North American tour will feature real world examples of commercial trucking fleets and owner/operators who have benefited from the improved fuel efficiency, weight savings, and time savings that MICHELIN X One wide single tires deliver.

"With the cost of diesel fuel now averaging almost $5 per gallon, we believe this message will truly resonate with truckers who pay more than $1,000 per fill up and travel 100,000 miles or more each year," said Marc Laferriere, vice president of marketing, Michelin Americas Truck Tires. "Michelin X One tires provide an excellent means to improve a truck's operating efficiency. Not only does this save the trucking company green on their bottom line, but it also saves the environment green by reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions."

Source: Michelin Tires

Love's Travel Stops To Offer Michellin Truck Tires

Michelin recently announced a cooperative agreement with Love's Travel Stops, expanding service to the trucking industry.

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Beginning in May 2008, Love's Travel Stops will feature Michelin truck tires and related products and will begin expanding the services offered at many of their locations to include tire and emergency road service.

"For over four decades, Love's Travel Stops has grown with the trucking industry," said Guy Pekle, vice president of Replacement Sales, Michelin Americas Truck Tires. "Love's has earned a reputation of excellence in delivering much needed products and services for the over-the-road customers. Their commitment to providing outstanding service to the trucking community mirrors that of Michelin, which makes this agreement very beneficial for truckers coast-to-coast."

Love's Travel Stops is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and operates over 200 locations.

Source: Michellin

Bridgestone L315 On/Off-highway Wide Base Tire Debuts

Bridgestone Firestone recently introduced the L315 tire, on/off-highway wide base radial engineered for long mileage.

According to Bridgestone...

The Bridgestone L315 is designed for axles carrying extra-heavy loads, such as front-discharge cement mixers with front-wheel or all-wheel drive. This new wide base tire is also ideal in job situations where superior traction is required, such as on dump trucks, specialty oil-field equipment and other on/off-highway construction vehicles.

The L315’s lug tread and open shoulder design provide hundreds of biting edges to dig into soft surfaces, promoting superior drive traction in mud and on gravel.

The wide base design distributes footprint pressure for outstanding flotation while also allowing higher payload. In fact, the L315 has an “L” load rating, which allows it to carry 12,300 lbs at 120 psi.

The L315 has a 30/32˝ tread depth for long original tread life and tough tread compounds that resist cuts, chips, tearing and irregular wear. The enhanced compound also fights heat build-up so this on/off-highway tire can be used at sustained speeds to 65 mph.

To enhance retreadability, the groove walls are angled so they won’t retain stones that could pierce the belt package. Heavy-duty casing construction combats bruises and resists belt penetration for superior retreadability. And for more low-cost miles, L315’s casing is engineered to be retreaded for any axle position, with four full steel belts and an all-steel casing ply.

The L315 wide base tire is available in the 445/65R22.5 size in “L” load range.

Source: Bridgestone Commercial Truck Tires

Goodyear Named Tire Supplier for International Truck

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company recently announced its commercial tires are now available for specification on all International Truck & Engines vehicles.

Goodyear said it has been named an International Truck primary tire supplier.

Steve McClellan, vice president of Goodyear commercial tire systems, said, “We are extremely pleased to have been chosen by International Truck for use on its long-haul trucks, regional delivery trucks, mixed-service trucks and buses.”

Goodyear’s fuel-efficient Fuel Max Technology tires and self-sealing DuraSeal mixed-service tires are eligible for selection by International Truck customers, McClellan said. The company’s Fuel Max tires are standard equipment on the International ProStar family of tractors.

Source: Goodyear

Michelin XDA5 Drive Tire

Imagine a tire with a tread that regenerates itself as it wears. It's not science fiction or a scene from the "Transformers" movie, it's reality at Michelin: the new XDA5 drive tire for Class 8 rigs.

Michelin uses patented design and manufacturing techniques to mold the tread of the XDA5 in three dimensions. As the tire wears, the tread reveals new grooves and tread blocks, effectively giving the tire a second life-self- regenerating to improve wet, worn traction.

This regenerating tread design keeps the tire in service longer before retreading, an impressive 30 percent improvement in tread life over other drive tires that are commercially available.

"Incorporating three dimensional features into the tire tread that must interact with each other as the tire rolls down the highway required Michelin to develop additional innovations in our manufacturing processes," said Jean- Michel Guillon, chief operating officer, Michelin Americas Truck Tires. "The result is a sophisticated tread design that works to preserve itself as it performs. We are very excited to bring this technology to the marketplace as it dramatically raises the bar for high mileage tires."

Source: Michelin