Tire Balancing Solution for States That Have Banned Lead Weights

Oct. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Currently, six states have passed legislation or implemented regulations aimed at curbing or eliminating the use of lead wheel weights. California, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and now Illinois have passed bills prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or installation of lead wheel weights.

Go Green Fleet Solutions has partnered with Texas based company, Centramatic who has been manufacturing the Centramatic On-Board Continuous Wheel Balancer for over Twenty Five years concentrating on the heavy duty trucking market and RV applications with well over one million sets on the road.
The Centramatic On-Board Wheel Balancer Increases tire life 35%-50%, by continually balancing the entire wheel assembly, reducing vibration, which dramatically improves the ride, and by reducing the tire temperature by 8%-10%.

Excessive tire operating temperatures and imbalance are the leading cause of premature tire wear and failure.  Even a small amount of imbalance causes the sidewall of a tire to flex as many as 37,000 times per hour in the same location.  This flexing generates localized excessive heating, which causes erratic tire wear and premature failure.
Centramatic’s patented “ON-BOARD” balancers will automatically and continuously balance the entire wheel assembly (tire, wheel, brake drum, etc.) while reducing tire/wheel/assembly-operating temperatures.  As a result, you will extend the life of your tires, reduce your tire costs, and save in many other areas due to reduced vibration and heat.  
The Centramatic On-Board Balancer mounts behind the wheel and has proven to balance a truck wheel assembly to within 1/10th of an ounce continually as it is going down the road.  Anti-magnetic weights are suspended in synthetic oil and are automatically redistributed as the wheel rotates. Centrifugal force places the weights in exactly the correct position. This produces a “Continual Dynamic Balance”.

Centramatic has had the privilege of having their "On-Board" Balancers tested and evaluated by two of the most respected research organizations in the Country: 1. Auburn University's National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT). NCAT's facilities study the effects of Centramatic On-Board Balancers on tire mileage and cab vibration. NCAT concluded that Centramatics not only dramatically extended tire life (between 40 and 50 %) but reduced driver fatigue and stress levels their drivers endure under the repetitious and grueling lap conditions they are required to undergo.
2. Speed Measurement Laboratories, Inc (SML). Concluded that the Centramatic On-Board Balancers consistently reduced wheel/tire heating on average 10% for the front steer application and on average 8% for the rear drive application over the test period.

With tire costs being a large portion of a fleet’s operating cost this is an excellent solution to the lead wheel weight ban while enabling the fleet to increase the life of their tires. Go Green Fleet Solutions with the help of Centramatic and Pressure Pro, which provides the most advanced tire pressure monitoring system available on the market today, can provide a fleet with substantial increase in tire life reducing one of their largest operating expenses by more than 50%.

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Go Green Fleet Solutions is an educational company thats mission is to inform and provide the trucking industry with programs to reduce emissions from fossil fuel engines, save fuel, increase profits and improve their quality of life. Through strategic partnering with companies that manufacture products that reduce operating costs, we have created our Peak Profit Program.