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Tire Tips: Reinforced Shoulder Repairs

Repairing truck tires is a necessary part of preventing downtime and particular care is needed when making reinforced shoulder repairs (RSR) on truck tires. The Tread Rubber and Tire Repair Materials Manufacturers' Group provides some key tips and guidelines for working with RSRs.

9 Retread Tire FAQs

Do you know the answers to the top nine most frequently asked questions about retread tires?

Last-Mile's Growing Impact on Retread Tires

Truck fleets have spoken, and the use of retread tires is growing in popularity. Medium-duty, last-mile fleets are seeing it to promote sustainability and reduce fleet tire costs, too.

TRIB’s Stevens Discusses the Impact of Tariffs on U.S. Retreaders

The imposition of aggressive anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese-made medium truck tires arguably has been the most significant development to hit the domestic retreading industry in many years, and the impact of those actions is something that the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB) is monitoring closely.

How Truck Tire Retreading Has Changed

Kevin Rohlwing has been in the tire industry for 37 years and has seen a massive shift in retread technology. Gone are the days of technicians eye-balling the tread on the casing. But he says the retread revolution is far from over.

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