Bridgestone Commercial Truck Tires

What effect can fuel efficient tires have?

In several years of real world testing of its own and competitors’ tires, Bridgestone has found that fleets will generally not achieve fuel economy improvements equal to those found in carefully controlled tests.

As a rule of thumb, Bridgestone engineers suggest that any fuel economy method that does not produce at least a two percent improvement in controlled testing will probably not produce any measurable real world effect in the long term.

Whatever the size of the test results, you generally see only about half of it in the real world. As we mentioned before, much of this is because of interference by other factors outside the controlled world of scientific testing.

Of course, you should always try to save fuel. It can save you money while reducing both pollution and our dependence on foreign oil. But don’t expect to get much more than half the effect you found in your tests.

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