India’s first full-service commercial vehicle tyre outlet was recently inaugurated at Sanjay Gandhi Transportnager on the outskirts of Delhi by Onkar S. Kanwar, Chairman, Apollo Tyres Ltd.
Said Onkar S. Kanwar on the occasion: “All our customers are equally important for us. Our thought was, if passenger car drivers deserve a service mentality and modern retail facilities in our Apollo Zones, so do commercial drivers – in reality they are the people on whom the economy rides! We are looking to build a network of Apollo Commercial Vehicle Zones across the country over the year, placing each one of them at key locations in transport hubs and on highways to create greatest convenience for our commercial segment operators.”
Apollo CV Zones, equipped with tyre sales, wheel alignment, balancing and nitrogen gas filling facilities, would also offer other services, specifically for the radial tyre user like the services of the techno-commercial Apollo team called Forza and the Apollo Radial Service Assistance programme. Both of them are geared to enable operators to run and service their vehicles in a manner which enables them to extract the best cost per km.
This Apollo CV Zone is spread over 5,000 sq. feet. Apart from selling the range of Apollo’s commercial vehicle tyres it also has two service bays and six trained service personnel and will cater to an estimated 2,000 trucks that are parked every day at the Sanjay Gandhi Transportnagar. The facility also has a 10-seater training centre that will be used for both driver and service, fitment and usage trainings.
The Sanjay Gandhi transport hub is home to Apollo’s first Health Care Centre, established in 2000 for targeted intervention in HIV-AIDS, sexually infectious diseases and for general health of the commercial vehicle community. It is staffed with two medical practitioners and four outreach workers and averages over 250 patients every month. Apollo Tyres has 17 such health centres across India.
