The number of tires even a small fleet can go though in a year's time is staggering. Just ask Bryan Golden, director of fleet maintenance for Southeast Logistics, based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Southeast runs around 160 company-owned tractors as well as a number of leased power units and 452 flatbed trailers throughout the Southeast. The fleet's average length of haul is approximately 385 miles. During a year's time, Golden says the fleet puts on anywhere from 1,200 to 2,000 tires purchased from remote vendors. But to his ongoing frustration, many times the replacement tires his technicians find on the trucks when they roll back into the yard are not the ones he wants.
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