Bergey’s Truck Centers Acquires Cumberland Truck
Bergey’s Truck Centers Acquires Cumberland Truck
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When it comes to fleet operation, tires are one of the highest expenses. To cut costs while providing drivers with quality tires, many businesses choose commercial tire retread options for their fleet.
Our plant can handle any tire issue, from full retread on casings to properly repairing tread on damaged tires due to brake skid. Retread can save you considerable money.
Bergey’s Commercial Tire Centers provides retread tire services for trucks, OTR vehicles, and agricultural equipment. We offer premium and economy tread brands that will meet all applications/vocations in all sizes. This unique retread capability gives you a total commercial tire solution that is dedicated to Keeping Customers on the Road™ since 1924.
The commercial tire retread process is a series of steps that improves safety by ensuring only quality tire casings are used. We inspect, mechanically buff the casing to the correct radius and diameter, attach a new tread to the casing, and paint the casing before returning to you.
Every tire undergoes an inspection to identify if it is eligible for retreading. During the inspection, a technician will determine if repairs are necessary. Tire casings with severe damage are not suitable for the process. In this event, we can return the tire to you or provide disposal (with casing credits where applicable). If a casing is eligible for retreading but a repair is required, the damage is marked and the casing moves to the next step.
During this step, the casing receives its repair(s). Examples of common repairs include nail holes and road hazard punctures. If the casing steel and fabric are not damaged, spot repairs can be performed without limit. Section repairs can also be performed, but these have a limit. When all tire repairs are complete, the casing moves to the third step.
The old tread is mechanically buffed away to the proper radius and diameter. During this stage, it’s possible for the technician to find foreign objects embedded deep in the casing, such as glass shards. These are removed and repairs are made as necessary. Once buffed, the tire must remain clean and cannot touch the ground.
The new tread is applied to the casing. The application process varies depending on if the casing is receiving a pre-cure tread or mold cure tread. Both types of tread will require curing, the next step.
The tire is put into a temperature and pressure controlled chamber for a specified amount of time.
The casing receives its paint and is ready for return.
Still unsure of the retread process and what it can do for your fleet? We invite you to come in and visit our retread plant located in Sellersville, PA. Our team will walk you thru the process, explain the benefits of retread and it’s place in today’s commercial truck tire market. Contact us at 215-257-6529 or email us.
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