Finding the Formula
The six essential success traits of top-performing tire and service salespeople.
Diagnosing Irregular Wear
New column devoted to helping front
New Year Fleet Resolutions
Tires continue to be a large cost and concern for commercial trucking fleets in 2014.
Little Tire Co.
Virginia dealer has experienced the good, the bad … and everything in between.
Growing Market: Tiremakers See Solid Ag Market for 2014
While there was a drought for much of North America in 2012, the agriculture industry bounced back in 2013. In fact, net farm incomes for the U.S. in 2013 are expected to reach record amounts. Projected net farm incomes are forecasted to be $131 billion, up 15.1% from 2012, according to the most recent report
How Vehicle Software is Changing the Stopping Game
There was a time when advancements in brake technology were entirely hardware based. The change from drum to disc brakes, the introduction of semi-metallic and ceramic pads, and the addition of power brakes as standard equipment were all changes achieved by redesigned and improved brake system components. Today, electronics is driving most of the advancements
Click Toward Online Victories
Dealers share their success stories and best practices on the Web and social media.
So Where Do New Tires Go?
We dig deep try to give a final answer to a confounding and confusing tire question
Whenever and Wherever
Back in the mid-1960s, the three TV networks all made much of their conversion from black-and-white to “Now in living color!” broadcasts. It was like that transition in “The Wizard of Oz,” when Dorothy awoke after being carried away in the tornado. The screen of my parents’ old box black-and-white set had the faint image
Phantom Tach Attack
Some ‘strays’ lead techs to shorted signal wires that grounded cowboy’s old nag Buick
Cooper Calls it Quits in Apollo Deal
Unlike the old Neil Sedaka song, breaking up wasn’t that hard to do for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and Apollo Tyres – but the after-effects from the unconsummated marriage will take some time to sort out. On Dec. 30 – the day before the deadline to complete Apollo’s acquisition of the Findlay, Ohio, tiremaker
January 2014 Sales Intelligence
Tire and service pricing for Helena, Mont., Oklahoma City, Madison, Wis., Lexington, Ky., Macon, Ga. and Trenton, N.J.