D.C. Doublespeak: NHTSA’s Flawed TPMS Regs Lack Logic and Safety Sense
NHTSA’s Flawed TPMS Regs Lack Logic and Safety Sense
The Last Act?: Even After Attendance Boost for “Positive” WTE, TIA Officials Looking at Options
Even After Attendance Boost for “Positive” WTE, TIA Officials Looking at Options
Getting Serious: Market Shift Towards Performance Drives Toyo’s New UHP Flagship Tire
Market Shift Towards Performance Drives Toyo’s New UHP Flagship Tire
Ripple Effect: TIA’s Annual OTR Tire Conference Explores the Aftershocks of Demand Quake
TIA’s Annual OTR Tire Conference Explores the Aftershocks of Demand Quake
Eagle Eye on Growth: Jack Williams Tire Zeros in on Relationships, Profitability at Annual Meeting
Jack Williams Tire Zeros in on Relationships, Profitability at Annual Meeting
Staged to Explode: Still Young, China’s Growing Tire Industry is Catching Up
Still Young, China’s Growing Tire Industry is Catching Up
Chaos Theory?: Managing Inventory in Today’s Tire Industry
Inventory management today is more important and more complicated and challenging than it has ever been in the history of the tire industry, according to Daniel Brown, senior vice president of procurement at American Tire Distributors. “Today’s consumer expects a multi-brand offering at the point of sale,” Brown wrote in a recent article
Tire Storage; Tire Repair
Tire Storage Racks Save Space, Time, Money and Backs Tires in winter storage or new tires waiting to be mounted ought to be easy to find and stored safely in a tire storage system. And don’t take the naysayers seriously. Some tire rack makers advise against horizontal storage, others against vertical storage. Actually, both
Patterns & Offsets: More New Bolt Pattern/Offset Combinations Have Emerged
More new bolt pattern/offset combinations have emerged in the last few years than in the last 20 years combined. Remember when there were only a dozen common bolt patterns, and almost everything had a standard offset? Oh, how I long for those days. Today, though, we have double that number, and it seems we are
Aligning Rigs
Several months ago, a trucking industry friend asked me, “How often should I align my trucks?” This is a fair question, to be sure, similar to those asked when establishing proper oil change intervals or setting time and mileage limits for cooling system maintenance. Before giving him a simple time interval, though, it occurred to
Good Times, Hard Times: With Global Demand Straining OTR Tire Supply, Dealers Must Again Look to Customer Service For Profit Growth, Experts Say
After five or so years of just scraping by, the North American OTR tire market is enjoying a happy problem warehouse-emptying sales. In fact, the global OTR tire business is having the same problem. But that happy problem has created a larger, more ominous issue: inventories are virtually non-existent, backorders are heavy and manufacturers
Hands-on Learning: BFNAT Takes Three New Tires on the Road With Classroom on Wheels
BFNAT Takes Three New Tires on the Road With Classroom on Wheels