Continental tyre pressure monitoring system makes its mark for WJ Roadmarkings12 September 2014

WJ Roadmarkings has fitted its latest hydro-blasting machine with the ContiPressureCheck tyre pressure monitoring system.

The £500,000 vehicle, based on a Scania 8x6 chassis, is operating on road construction sites and rural roads, so tyre failure is a big risk.

"With this level of investment, we need to keep this machine working," says Scott Logan, WJ Roadmarking's transport and workshop manager.

"We often work to tight schedules involving road or lane closures, so it's important that the truck is in the right place at the right time. Suffering a tyre failure can be very disruptive and severely impact on our operations."

The company fitted the system to its new Euro 6 Scania and, it says, it was a simple process: "It was quite straightforward to do, with sensors fitted inside each tyre on the four axles to transmit data on the temperature and pressure to a screen inside the cab," adds Logan.

Along with fuel savings, WJ Roadmarkings believes the use of the ContiPressureCheck system will raise driver awareness of the importance of keeping a check on their tyre pressures.

The system has already detected low pressure in an inner rear wheel tyre caused by a puncture that would not have been obvious just from a driver's daily visual check.

The company already has more than a dozen of the systems fitted or on order. "We will progressively make this a standard feature on all of our trucks," says Logan.

Author
Laura Cork

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