This January, The Tyre Equipment Company is returning to the LAMMA agricultural and machinery show in Peterborough, to showcase its range of workshop tools and equipment. As a long-established online supplier of workshop tools to a cross section of transport sectors, the company offers a ‘no minimum order’, free packaging and delivery service throughout the [...]
Mark Fardell, Team Leader of Vacu-Lug’s Off-The-Road (OTR) department, celebrated 25 years’ service last week. Mark first started working at Vacu-Lug when he was just 19 years old, originally beginning as a team member in the Mill Shop. This role mainly consisted of building rubber onto tyres by working the two mill rolls in order [...]
Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres, the UK’s leading independent retreader, has introduced a carbon counting tool which, says the company, enables their fleet customers to measure the environmental benefits of using Vacu-Lug retread tyres in comparison to an all-new tyre policy. Complementing the company’s tyre fleet management system (VMS), the Carbon Calculator is installed on Vacu-Lug’s website [...]
Vacu-Lug has launched its own tyre fleet management app to provide customers with remote access to their vehicle data. Called VMS Mobile, the new app summarises individual vehicle information held online within Vacu-Lug’s VMS tyre management system and, says the company, is an essential tool for vehicle monitoring and compliance control. To view vehicle data, [...]
IWJS – or Industrial Water Jetting Systems - the national waste water management and high-pressure water jetting services specialist, has appointed Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres to provide a comprehensive tyre management and husbandry service for its UK vehicle fleet. IWJS decided to introduce a single and cohesive tyre fleet management policy which would embrace each division [...]
This year will once again see Naomi Fund cyclists take to the road to face a challenging 160-mile bike ride, in honour of Grantham girl, Naomi Fardell. The cyclists include three Vacu-Lug team members, who will be completing the challenge for the third time – having previously taken part in both the 2013 and 2015 [...]
Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres has become the official UK retread partner for global tyre manufacturer, Apollo Tyres. The partnership comes as Apollo Tyres launched its high-mileage European truck and bus tyre range at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show. Specifically designed for European conditions by its R&D centres in the Netherlands and India, Apollo’s new performance truck [...]
After a thorough tender process, Shanks Waste Management Ltd has selected Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres Ltd to manage its commercial vehicles and mobile plant and machinery tyres for a number of recycling centres throughout the UK. Using Vacu-Lug’s bespoke web-based VMS software programme, each Shanks vehicle is individually managed to provide a full monitoring, repair and [...]
Any operator hoping for improved fuel efficiency from a retread tyre looks closely at rolling resistance and that's exactly what Grantham-based commercial tyre retreading specialist Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres did when developing its successful Logistik platform for heavy commercial vehicles. Unlike some manufacturers, however, Vacu-Lug chose not to sacrifice any physical tyre characteristics, but instead achieved [...]
AFI Uplift, one of the UK’s leading powered access hire companies, has renewed its FORS gold accreditation with the assistance of leading independent UK retreader Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres. As part of the accreditation, which is centred on improved safety, efficiency and environmental standards, fleet operators are required to demonstrate that appropriate measures have been taken [...]
