Roads & Bridges: How Firestone VersaBuilt Tires Saved the Day
This month, JR Hayes is featured in a Road & Bridges case study.
We’re always excited when one of our projects or people gets featured in an article. Our operations manager Tony Perrotti talks about the extreme benefit we experience when we have the right equipment for a tough job. In this case, VersaBuilt tires gave us the traction we needed to keep our trucks moving, our people working, and the project on schedule. Here’s the introduction to the article:
Tony Perrotti, operations manager for JR Hayes Corp., a site development contractor in the Pacific Northwest, has been in the industry for 31 years and understands the demands jobsites place on equipment—and more specifically the tires that keep jobsite equipment moving. Facing poor underfoot conditions, he outfitted his Caterpillar 735 articulated dump truck with Firestone VersaBuilt tires.
“I’ve been struggling to get my trucks around,” Perrotti said. “With the VersaBuilt tires, traction and overall control are a night-and-day difference.”
We know first hand how expensive down time can be. As Tony states in the article:
“Downtime is huge,” Perrotti said. “When you have one truck go down, you easily have three to five hours of lost productivity to repair a flat or get a new tire. We had several flat tires due to wire mesh in the concrete on one of our sites, which resulted in significant downtime. Since we switched to the Firestone VersaBuilt tires, we haven’t had any downtime.”