3 Tips To Save On The Cost Of Maintaining Your Company's Vehicle Tires

Keeping tires in top condition is crucial for companies that rely on fleets, especially those with high mileage. Besides boosting performance, proper tire maintenance also impacts fleet cost efficiency, such as reducing tire replacement frequency, improving fuel efficiency, and minimising accident losses. Support your company's tire maintenance efforts and cost efficiency.

 

Here are 3 tips that you can apply with Cartrack Indonesia's fleet management system.

 

1. Perform periodic tire maintenance

Frequent use across diverse terrains and weather conditions necessitates periodic maintenance for your vehicle's wheels and tires—specifically, every 10,000–12,000 km or every six months. This maintenance includes rotation, balancing, and alignment. Beyond ensuring driving safety and comfort—particularly during long-distance trips—such maintenance helps address uneven tire wear, thereby extending the service life of your vehicle's wheels and tires.

To help you manage maintenance schedules for each vehicle, Cartrack Indonesia’s fleet management system includes a Reminders feature. Integrated with data from the Cartrack GPS trackers installed in your vehicles, the Reminders feature on the Cartrack Fleet Web platform allows you to manage maintenance schedules based on date, mileage, and usage periods. Notifications can be configured to be sent in advance—whether based on time or mileage—via the Fleet Web platform, email, or SMS.

 

 

2. Practice Good Driving Behaviour

Poor driving habits cause your company to make frequent trips to tire dealers or repair shops. Driving behaviours that should be avoided to ensure tire longevity include harsh acceleration, sharp and fast cornering, hard braking, and speeding. These poor driving practices generate excessive tire-to-road friction and high heat; prolonged exposure to high temperatures causes your vehicle's tires to wear out quickly.

To ensure your drivers operate vehicles safely, utilise the driver monitoring feature within Cartrack Indonesia’s fleet management system. You can track the time and location—and even replay the route—whenever drivers engage in harsh acceleration, sharp cornering, hard braking, or speeding. You can configure notifications to alert you whenever such poor driving behaviour occurs. This data is also available through various automated reports, assisting you in evaluating and training your drivers. If you wish to gain a real-time visual overview of your drivers' behaviour on the road, you can also install Live Vision cameras in your vehicles.

 

3. Manage Costs More Efficiently with Mi-Fleet

 Fleet management system

Cartrack Indonesia offers Mi-Fleet, an integrated cost management feature within a single Fleet Web platform. This feature allows you to efficiently manage various fleet expenses, including tires. Cost reports can be directly downloaded or emailed, eliminating the need for manual creation, thus minimising costly data entry errors.

Using these automated cost reports, you can compare vehicles with high tire-related costs against the most cost-efficient ones, then investigate the underlying reasons—such as poor driving habits, vehicle age, or high mileage. With Mi-Fleet, you also gain insights into solutions for optimising tire maintenance costs, thanks to the integration of operational and cost management within a single platform.

 

Use Cartrack Indonesia’s fleet management system and start optimising tire maintenance costs for your company’s fleet! Contact us now to get a FREE LIVE DEMO and learn more about how Cartrack Indonesia’s fleet management system can help improve tire cost efficiency.