The first ninety days set the baseline
A mining tire program is judged on cost per hour, and that number only means something when there is a starting point to compare it with. Most sites do not have one. Tires were bought, fitted and scrapped, and the records say what was spent rather than what each tire delivered.
The opening stretch of a program is therefore mostly measurement, and it is worth agreeing that at the start rather than expecting savings in the first month.
Every tire on a record. Position, unit, hours fitted, and pressure at each inspection. Without this nothing later can be measured.
Every removal explained. Worn out, cut, impact, heat, or pulled for retread. The reasons are where the money is, because a site losing tires to cuts has a haul road problem, and one losing them to heat has a speed or load problem.
The haul roads looked at. Where the damage happens is usually a short list of places, and some of them are cheap to fix.
By the end of that stretch the site knows what a tire actually costs per hour and which causes are worth attacking first. That is the point at which a program starts paying for itself.
Reno or Elko
Both run mining programs. Elko is the specialized mining and OTR store. Reno adds the wider service list behind the program, including mobile service for planned work at your site and wheel refurbishing on the same account. The right one depends on where the site is and what else the operation needs.
OTR services cover fitting and repairs, and retreading handles the casings worth a second life. Further east, Salt Lake City also runs mining programs.
About this store
The Reno store runs eighteen services, is open Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and is managed by Fred Sinfellow.
See the national mining fleet services page for all 13 locations.