NATIONAL Tyres and Autocare is to launch a tyre management service which is guaranteed to cut fleets' tyre spend. The Tyre Solutions programme adopts an 'open book' approach to saving fleets money by agreeing prices for each supply and passing on any savings made at the year end. It amounts to a known-cost tyre management solution with the possibility of further savings each year.

National will work in partnership with its customers to agree a level of spend per vehicle per year which is guaranteed to be lower than the previous year's spend. Where National delivers the service at a cost lower than that agreed at the start of the contract, then any surplus will be shared equally between National and the customer.

Similar in some ways to the Kwik-Fit and ATS fixed cost tyre management schemes launched earlier this year, Tyre Solutions is the brainchild of National's car and van fleet accounts manager John Cawrey, who said: 'We are confident our new approach to the fleet market will be reflected in an increase in business. We are committed to multi-brand stocking to increase the choice available to customers. We are involved in fleet management and have a substantially strengthened account management force.'