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As one of the top expenses for trucking companies of all types and sizes, tires go a long way toward determining a motor carrier’s profitability and success.

Congress has voted to kill a Biden-era rule requiring rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes in the U.S.

Market observers say fleets can expect more replacement tire price hikes in the coming weeks and months as tariffs on rubber imports are passed through to customers.

The data-driven approach has found its way into one of the more underappreciated aspects of trucking literally where the rubber meets the road: tires.

Significant technological advances in recent years have helped to increase demand for LRR tires. “They’re just making the tires better and better all around,” one trucking executive said.

Goodyear has introduced the Cooper WORK Series Regional Haul All-position 2, a SmartWay-verified commercial truck tire designed for superregional and less-than-truckload fleets.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tire manufacturer Bridgestone Americas is closing its LaVergne, Tenn., truck and bus radial tire plant and laying off 700 workers there, the company said in a release.

WASHINGTON — U.S. tire company Goodyear will sell its Dunlop brand to Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries, the company announced Jan. 7.

Continental launched a new longhaul drive tire for the U.S. market.

American Tire Distributors, which sought bankruptcy protection in 2018 after the defection of two major manufacturers, has filed for Chapter 11 again as it considers a sale process to cut debt.