Keep a float of tires so no truck waits on the plant
Retreading saves money only if it does not cost uptime. The weak point in most programs is not the retread itself but the gap between a casing leaving and a retread coming back. A fleet that pulls tires off a truck and waits for the same casings to return has parked that truck.
The fix is a float: a small stock of ready-to-run retreads, or new tires, held for the positions you retread. When tires come off, the float goes on and the truck keeps working. The pulled casings go to the plant and come back to refill the float.
Sized properly, the float means no truck ever waits on the plant. Sized too small, it runs dry at the busy time of year.
Sizing the float
Three numbers decide it:
- How many tires you pull in a typical month for the positions you retread.
- How long the round trip takes, collection to return. Ask the store for the current figure.
- Your peak. A fleet that hauls grain or seasonal freight pulls more in its busy months, and the float has to cover those, not the average.
Many fleets set the float at roughly one round trip's worth of pulled tires at peak, and adjust after a season of watching it.
How the program works here
This store works with Purcell's retreading program. Casings are collected here in Jackson, retreaded at the Potosi plant, and returned ready to run.
A fleet account can hold the float and track what is out at the plant, and tire and wheel balancing handles the fitting when retreads go back on.
Collecting stores nearby
De Soto and Paducah, KY also collect casings.
About this store
The Jackson store carries all nine Purcell tire categories and is managed by Mike Rhymer.
See the national retreading page for how the program works and for all 54 collecting locations.