February, 2005 Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Tire Review Magazine
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