Mytyres.co.uk stresses business-sense of winter tyre fitments

Delticom’s mytyres.co.uk website has suggested businesses can help staff, and secure reliable service throughout the winter, by fitting winter tyres. The website exemplifies the effect of fitting winter tyres from a major online supermarket grocery delivery service. Having fitted all its delivery van fleet with winter tyres the company told mytyres.co.uk that they had allowed its drivers to go to places and do things others cannot because of the conditions, in addition to improving its drivers’ safety, and that of other road users, with the additional grip and stability in snow or icy conditions achieved.

As an indication of the effectiveness of winter tyres not just in snow or icy conditions, the British Tyre Manufacturers’ Association found that a car braking at 60mph on a wet road at a temperature of 5°C stopped five metres shorter, equivalent to more than one car length, when fitted with winter tyres. This especially applies to business motorists who are likely to be on the road in the coldest conditions first thing in the morning and evening.

Mytyres.co.uk says weather experts are predicting that the UK will experience another colder than average winter with more snow falls and icy roads. According to a YouGov poll 58 per cent of senior decision makers at small businesses said that their companies suffered as a result of the snow last winter. Nationally, three quarters (74 per cent) of employees were affected by the snow with more than a quarter (26 per cent) failing to get to work at all.

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