THOUSANDS of costly punctures on motorways across England can be prevented if commercial fleets took the time to check their yards for wayward bolts, nails and screws, a Bridgestone study has proved in a two-year study into debris-related punctures across five of its biggest fleet customers in England.
Utilising overhead satellite heat maps and painstaking daily checks, Bridgestone discovered 504 items of debris across the five sites, 200 of which were ‘medium to high risk’ hazards and were the potential sources of puncture related tyre removals thereafter.
