Better Roads Digital Magazine
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Applications & Innovations Will your trucks be ready? W hile everyone else is having summer fun and worrying about sunblock, savvy fl eet manag- ers are getting their trucks, equipment, and parts inventories ready for winters. They know if they don't, they can get caught out. Transitioning between seasons, especially from sum- mer to winter, isn't an easy task because the working conditions and stresses put on equipment vary so much For fleet managers, it's time to prep for winter. with the elements. When it comes to setting up a fl eet's pickups and heavy-duty trucks for winter duty, there are some major routine moves to make. But it's shocking how often some of them get overlooked. And that's downright dangerous. I bleed pickups, but here I'm talking everything from half-ton to Class 8 trucks that have to work for you in the dead of winter. Bridgestone Winter Driving School managers follow their own advice on winter prep, equipping their pickups with dedicated snow tires for plowing miles of roads outside of Colorado Springs, Colo. 34 August 2012 Better Roads August 2012 Better Roads