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Goodyear Wins Truck Tyre Innovation Award
will be able to add greater value to Hankook and other Tyrenet fleet customers by delivering efficiencies and speeding up data processing including invoicing and through the dissemination of Business Intelligence back from the field.”
Steve Daly, director of CAM
International, comments, “e-jobsheet is attracting tyre manufacturers to become involved, and Hankook, through the agency of Tyrenet, will be able to see the benefits of this visible, transparent platform to its organisation.”
Goodyear´s IntelliMax Groove Technology for truck tyres introduced with the low rolling resistance truck tyre FUELMAX S has been awarded this year's innovation award by the Luxembourg Business Federation
pattern appears. This ensures that high levels of grip and low rolling resistance are maintained even though the tyre wears. The award again recognises the high level of innovation as well as the high research and
Pirelli and MWSD to Offer Complete Wheel and Tyre Fitted Units
Francine Closener, Secretary of State of Economy of Luxembourg, Robert Dennewald, President of FEDIL, and Nicolas Soisson, Director of FEDIL, handing over the award to the Goodyear Innovation Center Luxemburg team.
(FEDIL). This is the third award on truck tyres that Goodyear Europe, Middle East and Africa has received from FEDIL over the last five years. The jury were impressed by the technology that ensures tyre performance continues at a high level throughout the tyre’s life. A feature of Goodyear’s recently-introduced FUELMAX S fuel-saving steer tyre, IntelliMax Groove Technology is a ‘hidden’ tread pattern moulded in the tyre. As the initial tread wears, a new
development capabilities of the Goodyear Innovation Centre Luxembourg (GIC*L) in Colmar-Berg. The award ceremony took place in Luxembourg City on December 10th in the presence of Francine Closener, Secretary of State of Economy of Luxembourg. The prize was presented to Jean-Marie Feller, Project Manager Tire Technology Commercial at Goodyear Europe. Middle East and Africa, who accepted the award on behalf of GIC*L.
Pirelli’s UK Truck division has highlighted Motor Wheel Service Distribution’s (MWSD) wheel safety campaign as a key reason for entering a preferred supplier agreement for the supply of complete tyre and wheel fitted units.
Under the terms of the agreement all sales will consider the wheel and tyre as one item, ensuring the optimum technical fitting for a vehicle’s usage including component weights, required load capacity, driving conditions and tyre attributes.
The service, which will be available to both OE manufacturers and the aftermarket, will cover MWSD’s complete range of Chevron marked steel wheels and the company’s exclusive xlite forged
aluminium wheels. Chris Evans, Director of Truck business at Pirelli, said: “Both the tyre and wheel are safety critical items, so it makes sense that they are offered as a single solution. We believe that this will be a benefit to all fleet operators because they will be able obtain
complete units that don’t compromise on safety or performance.
“We selected MWSD as the company is the market leader in the distribution sector. Their technical knowledge, skilled technicians, expansive range of products and impressive work in the wheel safety campaign will ultimately benefit Pirelli through increased market penetration and sales.”
John Ellis, managing director of MWSD, added: “The agreement with Pirelli is a huge coup, and the move to fitted unit sales is a natural progression of the wheel safety campaign where we have long argued that the two items should be considered with equal safety, performance and financial importance.”
Tyrenet Becomes First Tyre
Dealer Network to Sign on with
CAM UUG2 Meeting Set for April
The second CAM UniSerV User Group (UUG) meeting has been set for Monday, 13 April to coincide with the CV Show.
UUG2 will continue to discuss the benefits of e-jobsheet, CAM’s open- access mobile data platform for digital tablet technology in the truck, bus and van service arena. The session will also review the delivery of the new developments aimed at the commercial tyre sector through UniSerV which were scoped out by the participants at UUG1 to ensure user work flow, mobile work and stock visibility, business intelligence and integration to third parties continue to enable users to maximise their business efficiency
and sales growth.
UniSerV customers AC Tyres, Anglian Tyre Truck Management, A One Tyres, City 1st Tyres, Dexel Tyre and Autocentre, Gates Tyres, GW Tyres, Horndean, Lodge Tyre, Malvern/County Tyre Group, McConechys Tyre and Exhaust Centres, RJ Strang, Robbs Tyres, Strathclyde Tyres, Tyrenet, Tyrework, Universal Tyres and Autocentres and Watling Tyres are invited to attend the next event along with CAM’s technical experts to discuss universal issues and exchange views and ideas with the aim of continuing to drive forward efficiencies and business enhancements through the UniSerV platform.
E-Jobsheet
Tyrenet has become the first truck tyre dealer network to sign on with CAM International’s e-jobsheet, the open- access, digital tablet-based service work platform for truck, bus and van. Tyrenet exclusively handles Hankook’s UK service work via the independent dealer network, Hankook Truck Masters. Strategically, in the months ahead, its commitment means Tyrenet
can be linked electronically to all service provider subscribers for e- jobsheet who complete work for Tyrenet and Hankook Truck Masters, and to others including the large independent dealers that use CAM’s UniSerV software platform.
By being plugged into both CAM’s UniSerV platform and e-jobsheet, Tyrenet is enabling itself to deliver
world class service for Hankook fleets and to other customers via the connected dealer network. Tyrenet will receive the e-jobsheets electronically from its tyre network and process the job data via its UniSerV platform speedily and accurately. Aaron Mikoleizik, operations director at Tyrenet, says, “Tyrenet
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