Industrial Tire Services

Industrial tires sit under forklifts, telehandlers, material handling equipment and plant machinery. The work around them is different from truck tire work in ways that matter:

• Construction. Pneumatic, solid pneumatic and press-on solid tires are fitted differently, and press-on solids need a press rather than a tire machine.
• Environment. Much of this equipment works indoors, on concrete, in warehouses and plants where a service vehicle cannot simply pull alongside.
• Downtime. A forklift out of service stops a process rather than a journey, so timing is usually tighter than the tire itself suggests.
• Duty. These machines accumulate hours rather than miles, and wear is driven by load, turning and surface rather than distance.

Call the Purcell location nearest you, or send a request with the details below, and the commercial team will set out what can be covered for your equipment and your site.

• The machines: make, model, capacity and the tire size and construction currently fitted.
• How many units, and where they work.
• The surface: warehouse floor, concrete yard, gravel, mixed.
• Hours per day and shifts.
• Whether the work has to happen on site, and what access and induction requirements apply.
• What is failing: chunking, cuts, flat spots, or straightforward wear.

These machines accumulate hours rather than miles, and the wear is driven by things a highway tire never meets:

• Standing load. A loaded forklift sits with its weight concentrated on a small contact patch, often for long periods.
• Turning on the spot. Tight maneuvering in a warehouse scrubs rubber in a way driving never does.
• Surface. Smooth concrete, rough concrete, gravel yards and steel plate each wear tires at a different rate and in a different pattern.
• Debris. A yard with scrap, swarf or broken pallets cuts tires continuously.

That changes the maintenance question. Checking a fleet of forklifts on a schedule catches chunking and flat spots while the tire is still serviceable, and it catches the wheel damage underneath that nobody notices until a tire will not seat.

Work on industrial equipment is usually planned rather than reactive, because the machine is on site and the site has a rhythm. Expect a conversation about when the equipment can be released, whether the work happens in your facility or at the store, and what spares or swaps keep the operation running while it does.

Industrial tires are carried at 52 Purcell locations across 12 states. The locations that do not carry them are the seven retread plants, the two consumer stores, and the commercial stores in Anchorage, AK, Fairbanks, AK and Elko, NV.

Six of the seven retread plants list industrial casings among the tires they retread or repair, so a sound casing has a second life rather than being scrapped.

Depending on the equipment and the site, industrial work overlaps with services that are listed per location:

• OTR services, at 41 locations, where the machines are genuinely off-highway.
• Mining fleet services, at 13 locations, for sites running a managed program.
• Wheel refurbishing, at 42 locations, which on industrial wheels is usually far cheaper than replacement.
• Fleet services, at 49 locations, for operations running several machines.