After a thorough tender process, Shanks selected Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres to manage its commercial vehicle and mobile plant and machinery tyres for a number of recycling centres across the UK.
Using Vacu-Lug’s web-based VMS software, each Shanks vehicle is individually managed to provide a full monitoring, repair and tyre husbandry service. This includes the operator’s fleet of delivery and collection vehicles, including roll-on-roll-off hook-lifts with drawbar trailers, and a mixture of plant and OTR wheeled equipment.
“During several months of stringent evaluation, Vacu-Lug came out best for service level agreements and overall value,” says Chris Byrne, Shanks’ UK plant and vehicles manager.
“Now, after the first three-month review, I’m pleased to say our ongoing objective to reduce vehicle downtime has been achieved and we expect to maintain exceptional response and repair times going forward.”
The VMS system records and notifies Vacu-Lug’s network of independent service providers of the designated tyre policy for each contracted vehicle, and validates supplier invoices against any authorised work. In turn, the system creates accurate invoicing in line with all contractual terms.
Byrne adds: “So far, Vacu-Lug’s tyre fleet management service has achieved all that it set out to do: close tyre monitoring, fast response times and consistent first-time repairs – all of which go a long way to keeping VOR times as low as possible.”