Monitor tyre pressure to maximise profit margins

September 18, 2024

GoMetro has launched ConnecTyre, a comprehensive cloud-connected tyre pressure management system (TPMS) developed to empower fleet managers and drivers operating on demanding South African transport routes.

According to Continental, nearly a quarter of all truck breakdowns are tyre-related. Real-time TPMS takes critical tyre management decisions out of the hands of drivers and puts it firmly in the hands of operations controllers. Active tyre pressure monitoring helps reduce the likelihood of downtime by alerting users to tyre issues before they become serious, reducing fuel consumption, and helping trucks to deal with challenging road conditions. Underinflated tyres are vulnerable to pothole-strike failures and create unnecessary drag, influencing fuel consumption and eroding profit margins.

South Africa’s road transport network is severe on tyres, especially for fleets servicing rural areas and off-highway delivery destinations to provide valuable logistical links. Degraded road surfaces increase tyre wear and underinflated tyres are at greater risk of failure on poorly surfaced and maintained roads.

Fleet managers and maintenance technicians can’t improve road surface conditions, but they can control tyre pressure, limiting component failure and blowout risk. ConnecTyre’s TPMS uses direct mount sensors secured to the rim to produce accurate and reliable pressure readings.

With its global experience in advanced fleet telematics platform integration and actionable data management, GoMetro understands that having more eyes on information enables greater awareness and better decisions. ConnecTyre enhances your fleet’s tyre monitoring and management with a dual-redundancy system, displaying real-time tyre pressures to a cab-mounted status screen and signalling the same data to your control centre or office.

GoMetro knows the value of freight and vehicle data being visible and shareable to be actionable. Drivers can become preoccupied with hazardous road conditions like high winds, thunderstorms, flooding, or roadside risks, such as pedestrians or animals. When a driver navigates a demanding part of their route and misses an in-cabin ConnecTyre tyre pressure alert, it is duplicated to your control centre or office staff, who can alert the driver to respond before low tyre pressure becomes a blowout.

Your fleet’s dynamic safety systems depend on tyre integrity. Incorrect tyre pressure compromises front axle steering accuracy, braking ability, and traction. When your fleet assets run at maximum load or hauling capacity, steering or braking margins of error are minimal. Correct tyre pressure can become the difference between avoiding a collision and becoming a statistic.

Beyond more secure steering and braking performance in an emergency, correct tyre pressure also reduces running costs. Underinflated tyres create excess mechanical drag and needlessly increase diesel consumption. With ConnecTyre, your fleet’s drivers and managers are always aware of tyre health and inflation status, empowering them to respond before tyre pressure becomes a tyre issue.

Even the most experienced drivers and maintenance yard technicians can’t guess correct tyre pressure visually, and individually checking each tyre twice a day with a handheld gauge is terribly time-consuming. On a freezing winter morning, nobody wants to unnecessarily work with stubborn valve caps in the dark, manually gauging tyre pressures on an 18-wheel rig.

With ConnecTyre, when your fleet’s truck assets start up, tyre status data becomes available, allowing immediate and correct inflation adjustments where required. GoMetro’s ConnecTyre TPMS ensures that trucks leave the yard for customer deliveries or collection with their tyres in the best possible condition.

Skilled fleet managers know that tyre health matters. Don’t let tyre blowout downtime or low-pressure tyre drag ruin the profit potential within your revenue and operational costs. ConnecTyre brings advanced TPMS on board your fleet assets with seamless installation and integration, supporting safer journeys and smarter tyre management.