Predicting future tire costs is very difficult due to the many variables that influence tire pricing. The unpredictable cost variable for tire prices is the price of commodities, such as oil, rubber, and steel, which are three key ingredients needed to manufacture...
Like-for-like replacement tire prices for passenger cars increased 5-10% in calendar-year 2017 compared to 2016. A key reason is the increase in OEM automobile wheel diameters, which has driven up the price of fleet replacement tires, primarily because the larger the...
Telematics technology is evolving rapidly. The days when fleet managers were limited to “dots on a map” and reports that provided only rough overviews — or worse, complex sets of data no one could hope to interpret — are long gone. Today’s systems...
