Tire tips
Heavy-duty vehicle tires face extreme demands — they carry massive loads, navigate challenging terrains, and play a key role in overall performance and safety. This section offers expert advice on selecting, maintaining, and using tires for agriculture, forestry, and other demanding environments. Proper tire care extends service life, boosts efficiency, and helps reduce costly downtime.
Heavy-duty vehicle tires face extreme demands — they carry massive loads, navigate challenging terrains, and play a key role in overall performance and safety. This section offers expert advice on selecting, maintaining, and using tires for agriculture, forestry, and other demanding environments. Proper tire care extends service life, boosts efficiency, and helps reduce costly downtime.
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Tire pressure in winter: Adjust inflation pressures when the temperatures drop
Because of our home in the Nordics where winters are cold and pose additional challenges to tires, Nokian Tyres knows the effects of winter conditions and cold temperatures on commercial tires. In addition to using dedicated winter tires during the colder months, it is necessary to adjust tire pressures according to the weather. This ensures that you are always prepared for whatever the winter throws your way. -
Tire aspect ratio for commercial vehicles
Like other tire dimensions, the aspect ratio plays a role in determining the tire's performance and suitability for various applications. Together with other qualities of commercial tires, the aspect ratio affects the tire's height, load-carrying capacity, and maneuverability, which are all the more important when operating heavy commercial vehicles.. -
Trailer tire size: Choose the right tire size for your heavy and commercial trailer
The correct tire size for your trailer impacts the safety, performance, and overall cost-effectiveness of your operations. This is especially true for heavy and commercial trailers, whose tires should withstand large loads even at high speeds and long-haul use. Find reliable commercial trailer tires from the Nokian Tyres website. -
Tire Tread Depth for Commercial Vehicles
Maintaining commercial tires should be a regular operation for everyone who spends time behind the wheel of a heavy vehicle. In addition to checking tire inflation pressures and making visual inspections, regular tire maintenance should also include checking the tread depth. -
DOT code on commercial tires: Reading tire markings
Knowing how to read the tire sidewall and decipher different information about heavy tires is a useful skill to have when buying new tires for commercial vehicles. In addition to tire size, speed rating and load index, the tire DOT code can provide you with valuable information about the tires. -
Tire load index for commercial tires
One central aspect of tire specifications for light passenger vehicles and heavy machinery alike, is the load index. The importance of tire load is even greater for commercial vehicles, including trucks, tractors, forestry machinery, and earthmoving equipment. -
Tire speed rating on commercial tires
The markings in your heavy tire come in handy when finding suitable tires and matching them with your equipment and implements. One valuable piece of information indicated by tire markings is the speed rating, or the maximum speed the tire can maintain safely. -
A complementary duo – CTIS system and Nokian Tyres Soil King VF tires
The tire pressure adjustment system, or CTIS, allows you to easily adjust tire pressure to suit the requirements of your working conditions. The system gives the most value with tires that are optimized for both field and road conditions – such as Nokian Tyres Soil King VF. -
As extreme as it gets – Arctic Trucks relies on Nokian Tyres Hakkapeliitta 44 tires on its vehicles when crossing Antarctica with the Transglobal Car Expedition team
The world’s first crossing of East to West Antarctica involved driving across the coldest area in the world, reaching altitudes up to 3650 meters. The team experienced both extreme clarity and zero visibility conditions, with snow varying from very soft to hard-packed sastrugi.