Tire Forensics

The Centennial Hotel 303 West North River Drive Spokane, WA, 99201 United States (map)

At the end of this course the Emergency Vehicle Technician should be equipped to:

•Determine the proper tire and tire application for vehicles.

•Understanding tire disablement.

•Understand the difference between Passenger, Euro-Metric, Euro Commercial, Medium Commercial and Commercial Tires and how they should be applied.

•Understand vehicle loads vs tire pressure.

•How to understand tire failure and the root causes.

•Know where to get tire information

•Understand what speed ratings are and how it can attribute to an accident.

•Know what load ratings are.

•Know how a tire is constructed.

•Know how important the vehicle door placard information is and how it can reduce the possibility of an accident.

•Understand the importance of rim/wheel information and where to find it.

•How important is your partnership with the attorney and other members of the team.

•The importance of proper tire terminology.

•How important are the tires, in a crash, if none of the tires failed.

•What reference publications do you need.

•Know what information should be part of the report.

•Know what to request thru discovery.

•Understand why tire category, tread pattern and tread depth are important to the vehicle’s operation.

•Know how to understand what the tire/rim are telling you (How to become a “Tire Whisperer”)

Mr. Winkelman has worked in the tire industry for the last 35 years from tire manufacturing, design, quality control and diagnostics.

Now with Tennent Winkelman and Associates we are a global tire forensics firm supporting investigators, law enforcement and expert witnesses for liability cases involving tire failures that result in personal injury and/or death.
Mr. Winkelman, with Tennent Winkelman and Associates, trains, and supports Law Enforcement, Emergency Vehicle Technicians, Insurance Claim Agents and Fleets on tire related material.  Mr. Winkelman also performs Fleet tire inspections to show companies how proper tire maintenance, inspections and fitments can prevent tire failures and accelerated wear. Fleets can save thousands of dollars from not having to perform premature tire replacements and prevent high-cost legal cases.
Mr. Winkelman emphasizes Trust and Integrity. I believe trust and integrity comes from the heart and touches every area of one’s life and in every action.
Mr. Winkelman has well over 20 years’ volunteer experience helping those in need. o As a volunteer instructor, for disabled individuals. o As an Assistant Fire Chief within his local volunteer fire company.

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