Hankook Tire America Corp. has received a 2013 outstanding supplier award in the polymer category from Blue Bird Corp. The award highlights Hankook's efforts as an original equipment tire supplier for Blue Bird's line of school buses. An ...
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MD Now Urgent Care – the largest and fastest growing provider of urgent care and occupational medicine services in South Florida announces its availability today as a certified source for screening and testing of Obstructive Sleep ...
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Tire shipments are expected to increase more than 4%in 2013 to 297 million units,according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association(RMA).This represents an increase of 12 million units compared with 2012. In 2014,RMA expects demand ...
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Tallman Truck Centre will now distribute Cobra aluminum dump trailers in Ontario. Cobra trailers will be sold at all Tallman dealerships, the company announced. "This distribution agreement with Cobra Trailers will allow us to enter ...
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Total Class 8 truck orders reached 20,915 units in November, making it the second month in a row to surpass the 20,000 unit threshold, according to FTR’s preliminary data. FTR specializes in forecasting freight transportation. Don ...
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Sousa Truck Trailer Repair has announced the opening of a new location in Cambridge The casing value for its medium-truck and bus radial tires has been increased to $110 for the first retread on many sizes, Toyo announced. It also offers ...
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Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. has rolled out an improved casing warranty for its commercial line of medium truck and bus radial (TBR) tires. Toyo says both fleet and independent operators will benefit from this improved warranty as it applies to ...
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Class 8 truck orders remained above 20,000 units in November, according to preliminary results from ACT Research. Classes 5-7 orders came in at 18,000 units and Class 8 orders totaled 21,200 units, ACT reported. "The 'Great OK' ...
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The Tire Industry Association (TIA) announced the 2014 schedule for its Certified Commercial Tire Service (CTS) Instructor Training and Certification classes in Baltimore, Md., and Denver, Colo. TIA says its Certified CTS Instructor ...
A debate has been raging within the pages of Truck News in recent months, about the need for heightened standards within the entry-level commercial driver training industry. Currently, the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and ...
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Whether it’s on the road, on the ice or under a steeple, 40-year-old truck driver Chris Bender is someone who people look to for guidance and leadership. Bender, a truckload driver for Steed Standard Transport in Stratford, Ontario, ...
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Marangoni reports demand for its Unitread products has increased, making a third shift a necessity. Marangoni Tread North America reports it is adding a third shift to Unitread precure tread manufacturing at its Madison, Tenn., plant. ...
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Smith Tire & Tread Owner Jim Smith says UniCircle treads are spliceless and adhere snugly to the tire's casing. The Goodyear Commercial Tire Systems division of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced that Smith Tire & Tread, Wahpeton, N.D., ...
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The 1 million square-foot Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi plant in West Point, Miss., will sit on a 570-acre site, employ 500 and include production, warehousing? and operations facilities. Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi ...
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Hikomitsu Noji, president of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., will be based in Japan as he also serves as CEO of all of Yokohama's North America operations. Now that Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (YTMM), the new manufacturing ...
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