This is the time of year consumers begin thinking about winter tires. However, commercial trucks and their operations are radically different from cars, SUVs and pickups driven by consumers to get to ...

This blog was provided exclusively to CCJ by Joe Puff, vice president of truck technology and maintenance, NationaLease. Selecting the right tire tread design for an application can have as profound ...

Tread design subtleties, such as the complex zig-zag shape of the blocks as seen on this Michelin XDA Hypersipe retread, can improve traction by doing a better job of expelling water, mud, snow or ...

Selecting the right tread pattern for tires used on the often-hostile road surface of a construction site, as shown here on this dump truck, can help resist "chipping and chunking" caused by stones ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (May 20, 2014) — A Washington federal court judge has granted OTR Wheel Engineering Inc.'s request for a preliminary injunction in a trade secrets case against West Worldwide Services ...

A tire might look like a simple component – a round piece of rubber with a tread design – though it’s anything but. Likewise, tire performance has to do with more than simply moving your truck down ...

Other than tires for the aerospace industry, commercial truck tires have arguably the toughest job in the tire business. It’s why tire makers dedicate so much engineering time to ensure their products ...

Maximizing tread life is all about the contact patch — literally where the rubber meets the road. Pavement is abrasive by design. That’s how you get friction between the tire and the road surface — in ...

The following was published in CCJ's Equipment Maintenance Toolkit, 8th edition, sponsored by Valvoline Heavy Duty. CCJ's Equipment Maintenance Toolkit is a complementary industry resource, courtesy ...

Nine months ago we fit our ’05 Dodge Power Wagon with a set of Dick Cepek Radial F-C II tires. Since then we’ve traveled thousands of miles in a variety of conditions in all four seasons. This ...