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
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
The Far, Far East
equipment in sight. Looked like an Ohio road construction project. • Very stratified pecking order in most workplaces. Employees know only enough to perform precisely their job. Nothing more. If you ask them for anything beyond that, they have to go find the next guy in the order. • China has re-embraced its ancient cultures,
Chain Gang Rules: Tire Chain Laws
Truckers in heavy-snow states already know how strict tire chain laws can be, but do you?
Eye on Tomorrow: Challenge Bibendum in Shanghai Explores ‘Sustainable Mobility’
Challenge Bibendum in Shanghai Explores ‘Sustainable Mobility’
Expanding Your Turf: There is Growth in the Commercial Lawn/Garden Tire Biz
If you’re an independent tire dealer or wholesaler serving the general public – directly or indirectly – you pay attention to consumer tires. Makes sense. After all, the real volume is in passenger and light truck tire sales. But volume is only one side of the profit equation. It’s no secret that margins in passenger
Back to Basics: Part 1: Beads and Sidewalls and What They Add to Performance
Did you know entry-level tire construction engineers, compounders and designers aren’t allowed to touch a new tire for a year or two? That’s because tire design and development isn’t part of any college curriculum. The making of a competent tire engineer isn’t the job of a college professor. That task belongs to veteran tire company
Flexible Benefit Plan
The concept of limiting the availability of commercial tire tread designs or model types has always been appealing to most fleets, large and small. However, decades have passed since it has been either practical or economical to apply a single tire type to all wheel positions. Nearly all fleets specify specialized tread designs for different
Wheel Anatomy: Part III
In the last of a series of three articles about how different types of wheels are made, we now turn our focus to three-piece designs. What are three-piece wheels? And, what is so great about them? As the name states, this type of wheel is an assembly of three components. Like a two-piece wheel, the