This story appears in the April 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Preventive tire maintenance handled in-house with everyday equipment is vital for private fleets looking to maximize tread wear ...

More than one farmer has aired up tractor tires once and forgotten about them, but that could be costing you money, said Dusty Hininger, sales training manager at Firestone Ag. Appropriate tire ...

“For every 10 degrees Fahrenheit the temperature falls, tire pressure is also falling between two and three psi,” explained Judith Monte, vice president of marketing and customer success at Aperia ...

Like passenger cars, tire inflation for farm equipment is important for efficiency and safety. Radial tires often appear underinflated when they are not, and sometimes people overinflate them. But ...

Long tire life starts with selecting the correct tires for your vehicle and maintaining them throughout their life. The type of tires contractors need depends on the type of fleet they operate and the ...

Only driver wages beat out fuel as the largest expense for fleets. With even the slightest underinflation of tires on tractors and trailers causing degradation in fuel economy (not to mention tire ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The lightbulb moment came when Brandon Richardson, a former Detroit automotive engineer, had a tire go flat because it was underinflated ...

As product manager for tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) at Bendix, Jon Intagliata intimately knows how even a small difference in tire inflation pressures can reduce fuel economy and decrease ...

Maintaining the proper inflation pressure in tires is the single most important thing you can do to get the most mileage out of a tire. Everybody says that, but like the weather, everybody talks about ...