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The free Bridgestone Retorque app has been developed after gathering information with all bus, truck and trailer original equipment manufacturers. The tyre manufacturer says the app will offer the correct torque settings on all vehicles, free of charge, at the swipe of a mobile phone or tablet.<\/p>\n

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Bridgestone’s new safety app<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It will be of use to anyone who removes and replaces truck wheels and Bridgestone plan to develop it further to include van data in the future.<\/p>\n

The safety implications from a detaching wheel from a truck, bus or trailer can be fatal, with research from road safety charity Brake highlighting the significance of the issue.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s estimated that several hundred wheel detachments occur each year in the UK, mostly involving large commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses. According to Brake, one in six (16 per cent) wheel loss incidents causes injury and one in 24 (four per cent) causes death.<\/p>\n

If a wheel becomes detached while the vehicle is moving it can accelerate up to 93mph and would hit an oncoming vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist with incredible force. It can also cause the driver who has lost the wheel to lose control and crash.<\/p>\n

Instead of leafing through pages of a manual for information, Bridgestone has developed its app \u2013 available from Google and Apple stores \u2013 to make the process as simple as possible and freely available for everyone, including fellow tyre manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Bridgestone\u2019s product and marketing manager Andy Mathias said: \u201cSince 2005, we have been collecting re-torque data from all original equipment manufacturers which we have historically supplied to our Bridgestone Partners in a manual which was always in high demand. We are now delighted to be able to offer a user-friendly, simple e-solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBridgestone recognised the need for a safety solution like this a long time ago and as we move into a digital age, we are pleased to be able to offer this to the industry. We decided to make it free of charge because the security and safety of commercial fleets is more important than creating revenue. So it can be used by absolutely everyone, including our competitors and we would encourage people to download it when they can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mathias said that the industry had been in need of a solution like Bridgestone\u2019s re-torque app for a number of years, with up to 12 people being killed on roads each year through detaching wheels.
\nHe added that overtightening was equally dangerous as under-tightening, as this can cause studs to crack and wheels to become loose thereafter.<\/p>\n

Bridgestone\u2019s innovative offering is the latest Total Tyre System from its Total Tyre Care provision, which allows businesses to keep tight control over their tyre-related costs courtesy of a hat-trick of services.
\nIt has been tailored to meet the needs of every commercial fleet operator and is quite unlike anything else on the market.<\/p>\n

Total Tyre Care is built around the following three components:<\/p>\n

Total Tyre Life – Premium new tyres & retreads
\nTotal Tyre Services – Professional tyre maintenance and assistance throughout Europe
\nTotal Tyre Systems – Inspection tools, customised reports and innovative technologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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