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980 Broadway, Albany, NY 12204 518-449-5185 518-434-2354 FAX Retread Plant
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Saving Money
A large part of our business involves servicing the tire and front end needs of fleets of vehicles.
Question: What is our definition of a fleet?
Answer: More than one vehicle.
What many small business owners with 3 or 5 or 10 vehicles don't know is that we can save them a whole lot of money, and cut down on their stress level at the same time. This applies to:
- contractors, plumbers, electricians, etc
- companies with road salespersons
- all types of retail companies that delivery
- any company with vehicles on the road.
If you're wearing out tires and buying new ones for your cars and trucks, you're doing at least two things wrong. You're:
- overspending
- hurting the environment
To put it another way, you're spending extra money so that you can get an inferior product, use up more oil resources and add to an existing environmental problem with more throw-aways.
The tire secret ... (If you do nothing else, take a moment to read this through.)Virtually all large fleets of vehicles on the road today use retreads. I guarantee you the buses that carry your children to and from school are riding on retreads. Why? Because quality retreads last much longer than a new tire, they cost much less money, and they're environmentally friendly. ((It takes 22 gallons of oil to manufacture a typical truck tire, and only 7 gallons to manufacture a quality retread.))
First of all, tires are typically thrown away when the tread wears down. However, the tire casing (the rest of the tire with the tread removed) is usually in excellent condition, and most defects can be readily repaired.
Our retread system refurbishes your casings, if needed, and applies a new tread wearing surface. The material and labor to do that is much less than is needed to manufacture a new tire from scratch, thus saving money and oil.
Despite what you may be thinking, a quality retread is no more likely to tear apart on the road than an original tire. In reality, about 1/2 of the tire carcasses you see on the highways are original tires, not retreads. If they weren't safe, they would certainly not be allowed on our school buses, as they are.
The other cost factor that comes into play is that the material used to create the new tread is tougher than the original tread compound. Tire manufacturers have no incentive to make and sell the best tires they know how to make. They would lose money. Those tires would be more expensive than the competition, making them harder to sell. They would last longer, meaning fewer repeat sales. Few businesses would jump on that bandwagon.
Nevertheless, since tires represent the third largest operating expense for fleets (after labor and fuel), retread manufacturers have a captive audience interested in reducing costs. By reusing tire casings AND using better tread compounds, the end result is a much cheaper "new& tire that will safely provide more mileage than the original tire.
This information is well known to anyone who manages a large fleet of vehicles, but the typical person has the impression that retreads are inferior. In fact, the opposite is true for quality retreads, and we use the best system on the market - BANDAG.
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