New Bandag Dealership in Turkey

Ulu Lastik Kaplama has become Turkey’s latest Bandag shop. The Bandag retreads produced and delivered by Ulu Lastik Kaplama are designed to help fleets reduce their tyre budget while increasing vehicle uptime. Owner Halil Ulu and his sons Menderes Ulu have more than 15 years of experience in truck tyre servicing.

Ideally situated on the main road of Denizli, the tyre shop is within easy reach of the national road network and offers all tyre related services: wheel alignment, balancing, repair and fitting of truck and OTR tyres. The clear predominance of road transport and the retread ratio of 25 per cent in the region convinced Halil Ulu and his sons to opt for the only retreading system that really cuts tyre operating costs.

The city of Denizli ranks among the main industrial areas in the country. The strength of its textile, mechanical engineering and food-processing activities results from a real symbiosis with the rural land all around, where cotton is grown on a large scale.

Denizli was Laodiceia in ancient times. Its neighbours were the ancient cities of Tripolis and Hierapolis, the current Pamukkale (cotton castle in Turkish) renowned for its hot springs and its unique travertine. Both tourism and industry draw a lot of traffic to Denizli and its province. Ulu Lastik Kaplama has been servicing a lot of fleets for several years already. Cement works, international hauliers, building contractors, mining companies, intercity bus fleets

“The availability of the best retreads in the world in our shop is good news for our customers”, says Halil Ulu. “Most of them experience severe wear levels caused by the industrial environment or the building sites they have to drive on. With Bandag at our side, we can now guarantee that their retread will last at least as long as new tyres and offer the same reliability. Only the cost will be significantly lower.”

“We have four well-trained retreading experts in our shop”, adds Menderes Ulu. “The quality of their work and the performance of our modern Bandag equipment should help us to double or triple our market share in the years to come. Bandag already works wonders in other parts of the country. Here comes Denizli,” he enthuses.

Ulu Lastik Kaplama also operates two service vans and a Bandag service truck ready to attend if a customer has a tyre failure on the road. No breakdown place is too far for the new Bandag Dealer. If a customer is in trouble outside the area, the Dealer relies on Uptime 24, an international breakdown platform that helps any driver, wherever in Europe he might be stranded because of a tyre failure.