Nigel Grainger brings together a related set of skills that all fleets require, to greater or lesser
degrees, but which may not have the staffing or the skills to fulfil those needs.
Bringing his wealth of experience in all areas of fleet management he offers a bespoke service through his company Fleet Risk Consultants, providing you with a cost effective fleet that complies fully with your 'duty of care' requirements.Tyres – Should I be depressed or worried?
I was listening to a presentation by Paul Jones of Kwik Fit Fleet on Wednesday and as a result I am not sure whether I should be worried or downright depressed.
Kwik Fit Fleet manage some 1.5 million vehicles for their clients and this means they have some meaningful data with which to draw certain statistics and some of these figures are really rather bad.
They have found that between 20-25% of tyres replaced were below the legal minimum of 1.6mm tread depth, which is a bad enough figure. But when you consider that the drivers of these vehicles are not paying for the tyres themselves it makes the figure even worse.
I urge everyone to check their tyres on a monthly basis or get someone like Kwik Fit Fleet to do it for you (If you are a fleet they will do it for free). All that is keeping you on the road are those small black discs with a tiny contact patch at the bottom.
Is it worth the Gamble?
Nigel Grainger
Senior Consultant
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