With tighter schedules and heavier traffic, it’s not only the drivers that have to be able to handle the pressure. It’s the tyres too. At bus stops, for example, where kerbing is frequent.

It would be hard to imagine towns without buses – they are more economical and flexible than trams and they ensure mobility when private transport reaches its limits. The impact of traffic on city bus tyres in daily use also pushes them to the extreme, as they constantly handle braking, acceleration and rapid changes of direction. Contact with kerbstones also forces conventional tyres literally to their limit. Continental Bus and Coach Tyres are different: designed for all-round durability and maximum operating safety, these tyres have reinforced sidewalls made from highly wear resistant rubber which acts like an additional tread strip, and can survive even the harshest of kerbing without suffering technical or visual damage.