MICHELIN CALCULATES NHS TRUST COULD SAVE MORE THAN £20,000 BY CORRECTING ITS TYRE PRESSURES
Stoke-on-Trent – December 6, 2013A Yorkshire NHS Trust has discovered it could save almost £22,000 per year if all employee vehicles were driven with tyres at the correct pressures.
The revelation was made after Michelin visited the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to test the pressures and condition of employees’ tyres.
Results from the 75 cars tested showed that 49 per cent of tyres were at the correct pressure – better than the national average of 28 per cent – and a further 24 per cent of tyres were classed as ‘acceptable’, meaning they were up to 7psi under-
