InfoRoute ups support to Irish tyre dealers and fleets

Mike Glover, sales director at InfoRoute attended the recent ITIA conference and dinner in Athlone to provide more information about the upgrades made to InfoRoute and progress in the Irish market.

The company has invested heavily in both the mobile app and the reporting system, relying on its customers to help develop the product – InfoRoute is now the market leading solution in UK and Ireland.

Seven Irish truck tyre specialists are seeing the benefits of using InfoRoute by helping to retain existing customers with added value services and also win business from the competition on service and not price.

Commercial tyre dealers and fleets are promised a timesaving and safety-enhancing solution courtesy of InfoRoute, a user-friendly app combined with a cloud-based reporting system.

InfoRoute has built on more than 25 years of industry experience to create a simple app for use by technicians on a phone or tablet and be able to complete inspections in any weather and for any tyre.

The package is aimed at commercial tyre dealers, who can gain an extra share of the business and secure existing customers on a longer-term basis, by proving they are delivering excellent tyre management.

InfoRoute improves transparency of tyre health to significantly reduce the likelihood of unexpected, costly, and potentially dangerous breakdowns. Therefore, increasing time on the road while ensuring high safety standards. It also helps fleets to simplify their operations and reduce maintenance costs.

InfoRoute’s software is completely independent of any tyre manufacturers, meaning that all tyres of all brands can easily be monitored and managed and the data transferred to a growing list of manufacturers. This negates the need for numerous systems.

Mike Glover commented: “Tyre dealers sell fleet inspection services to fleet customers as a means of winning tyre business.

“Their means of proving they are delivering good tyre management are subject to defined KPIs such as pressure maintenance, avoiding early removal of tyres and regrooving to extend tyre list at a point when the tyre is at its most fuel-efficient.

“This means that in today’s competitive fleet market, transport operators need to keep an ever-closer-eye on their tyres, because good tyre management aids in cost control and fuel-saving.

“If a good tyre inspection regime is in place and can be demonstrated with a tool like InfoRoute then RSA is likely to look sympathetically at minor infringements.”

InfoRoute’s Tyre Fleet Inspection Software has already hit 340,000 annual vehicle inspections and is set to grow further after recent new customer acquisitions.

Glover added: “Commercial tyre dealers are responding to their fleet operators and customers’ needs.

“Driven by commercial and legal pressures, fleet managers cannot afford to ignore the dangers and costs of poor tyre management, so they are taking more interest in tyres fitted to their vehicles.

“They demand compliance and transparency from the companies managing their tyres to deliver maximum vehicle uptime and minimum tyre costs. Handwritten paper inspection sheets no longer do the job.”

InfoRoute comprises an Android app for smartphones or tablets and an online portal for reporting and transparency. Once inspection data is synced with the app, the inspection can be done offline and transferred to the cloud whenever there is a connection.

For more information contact mike.glover@compilator.com or visit team2.compilator.com/inforoute-software/