Changing tires forever
At first glance, the Pit Stop Line from Trelleborg Wheel Systems is just a thin orange band hiding inside a solid rubber tire. But for the forklift industry, the Pit Stop Line represents a new era in tire management – maximising tire life, raising productivity, improving safety and reducing environmental impact.
The Trelleborg Wheel Systems design team analysed thousands of used solid tires and discovered that they had on average been replaced with around 10 to 30 percent of residual use still in them. The solution Trelleborg brought to the forklift market now represents a new era in tire management – the Pit Stop Line.
The Pit Stop Line is developed to end the uncertainty about when to replace a solid tire, and it does this in the simplest way possible: visually. The orange line appears on a tire when it wears down; telling the operator there is an estimated tire life of 100 hours remaining.
This gives ample time for tire replacement to be scheduled when it is most convenient for the user. To replace a solid tire on a forklift in a busy factory or warehouse means taking a valuable machine out of service for a period of time. If tire replacement can be incorporated with planned maintenance routines, it delivers users two huge benefits.
