A small site still has a tire bill worth managing
Tire programs tend to be associated with large mines and long haul roads. Many operations around Yuma are smaller: a sand and gravel pit, a quarry, a site with one loader and a handful of trucks. The instinct at that scale is that a program is overhead the site does not need.
The arithmetic says otherwise. A large earthmover tire is expensive to replace and slow to source, and on a site with one loader, a single failed tire can stop production entirely. There is no second machine to carry the work while it waits. The fewer machines a site has, the more each tire matters.
What a program looks like at that scale
It does not need to be elaborate. At its simplest it is a short list of things done on purpose instead of by accident.
A record per tire. Machine, position, date fitted, hours. A spreadsheet is enough.
Regular inspection. Pressures, cuts and sidewall damage, checked on a schedule rather than when a tire looks wrong.
A spares plan. For a single critical machine, agree in advance what happens if a tire fails: whether a spare is held on site, or what is held by the store and how long sourcing takes.
Removal reasons. Every tire that comes off gets a reason. A site losing tires to cuts in one area of the pit has a problem worth fixing that is not a tire problem.
What sits behind it
OTR services for fitting and repairs, and wheel refurbishing for the rims under them. Casings worth a second life go through Purcell's retreading program to the Phoenix plant. The national mining fleet services page covers the full program.
About this store
The Yuma store carries all nine Purcell tire categories, including OTR tires, and is managed by Sean Quintanilla.
See the national mining fleet services page for all 13 locations.