Industry leaders in OTR and LME tyre management.

With our company name anchored in our heritage as an ‘Off The Road Australian Company’, Otraco was founded in 1972 by Basil Winterbourn while delivering tyre management services at the Mount Whaleback Mine in Western Australia. Today Otraco is recognised as the ‘go to’ supplier for OTR and LME tyre management across Australia, Chile and Southern Africa.

 
Early beginnings
At the forefront of tyre management, Mr Winterbourn and the emerging Otraco business developed methodologies for tyre life analysis (such as fitment period batching and axle fitment bias compensation), the tyre pressure and temperature monitoring system (TPMS), and the industry’s understanding of tyre explosion mechanisms. Even the tyre numbering system, now used almost universally, originated with Otraco.

Downer Heritage
Joining Downer in 2007, Otraco’s team continued to grow to over 800 tyre technicians located worldwide. In 2010, Otraco expanded into Africa securing contracts at many of the largest open cut mines in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. With support from Downer, Otraco’s tyre asset management system was extensively redeveloped in 2018 to include a forecasting module, procurement module, on-screen reports and an all new tablet friendly version.

A Bridgestone Company today
In 2021 Otraco was divested to Bridgestone Mining Solutions Australia (BMSA), a company offering comprehensive pit-to-port solutions for the mining, industrial and construction industries.

Five decades on Otraco continues to deliver tyre management solutions to the Mount Whaleback Mine in Western Australia along with over 60 projects worldwide. Otraco is set to continue as the ‘go to’ provider of OTR and LME tyre management for many decades to come. Otraco fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace that facilitates opportunity and respect. With a focus on gender and cultural inclusiveness, and through various initiatives, Otraco aims to help close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

With innovation and safety at our core, teams achieve step-change improvements in day-to-day operations by exploring ‘can we get the job done in a safer way?’

By empowering our teams, we uncover new, dynamic solutions.

Sharing new innovations and ensuring our teams follow strict safety protocols, we regularly update procedural manuals with improved work operational instructions, and release new Technical Papers and Ask The Expert guides that document innovations and new technologies.

Bridgestone E8 Commitment

As a subsidiary of Bridgestone, Otraco is part of the global team participating in the E8 initiative and thinking ahead to the year 2050. That may seem a long way off, but in the context of global sustainability, it’s the blink of an eye.

Thinking ahead means thinking bigger, the reality of the future is a mobility ecosystem that is complex and demands more beyond just what we do for individual customers. Not only do we have to evolve, but we also look toward our partners to co-create these new value offerings so we can improve the way people move, live, work and play today and for many generations to come.

This is what led us to introduce the Bridgestone E8 Commitment. To earn the trust of current and future generations, Bridgestone has established 8 values to solidify our commitment to a more sustainable world. The Bridgestone E8 Commitment connects to every aspect of our business and guides our decision-making throughout the development and delivery of our products, services, and solutions so as to support the realisation of a sustainable society.