ATS Euromaster Wins 160 Vehicle Council Contract

ATS Euromaster has secured a contract with Lancaster City Council to supply Michelin tyres and provide related service to the council’s 160 vehicle fleet. The three-year deal includes tyres for a mixed bag of vehicles ranging in size from lawn mowers through to refuse and recycling collection trucks.

“The varied nature of our fleet means that a fully managed approach like this is key to delivering best value for money for the taxpayer,” commented Graham Powell, fleet manager for Lancaster City Council. “ATS Euromaster and Michelin are also committed to ensuring that tyre-related downtime is kept to an absolute minimum, and helping the Council to achieve additional cost savings by maximising the performance and life of every tyre on the fleet. Selecting a partner with the skills to support our wide-ranging fleet was also crucial, with ATS Euromaster technicians as proficient at servicing the tyres on some of our more unusual pieces of equipment as they are on regular cars and trucks.”

The entire council fleet will be fitted with Michelin tyres, and the French tyremaker’s ‘Four Lives’ tyre package – regrooving and Remix remoulding – will be applied to ensure the maximum mileage from each casing. ATS Euromaster will also perform monthly tyre checks on the council vehicles, using an electronic data capture (EDC2) system to record the condition and tread depth of each tyre on a small handheld device that can upload the data to a central database. This information will be given to the local ATS Euromaster service centre so they can arrange any necessary replacement tyres or service work.