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PHOTOS: How Bridgestone builds giant off-road tires at...

Posted by Amy Materson on Dec 02, 2014

Bridgestone’s Aiken County, South Carolina, location will now be the home of the company’s North American giant off-road radial tire ...

Michelin opens dedicated plant for airless Tweel tire;...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Nov 26, 2014

Shortly after the New Year, we awarded Michelin with one of our 2014 Innovations awards for their Tweel airless tire. ...

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Posted by Tom Jackson on Sep 02, 2014

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Duck Dynasty fans will soon be able to put official...

Posted by Jason Cannon on Aug 08, 2014

Just in case you were a big fan of the camo-trimmed Chevrolet Silverado Duck Dynasty star and duck call CEO Willie ...

Mounting tires with an ether explosion looks smart but...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 13, 2014

Editor's Note: Despite abundant evidence of this crazy trick working, the process involves causing a very dangerous explosion on purpose ...

Inflation is Key

Posted by Contributed on Apr 25, 2014

Maintaining Optimal Tire Pressure is Essential to a Successful Preventative Maintenance Program A kick to a tire doesn’t reveal much more ...

VIDEO: How Arizona DOT turns old tires into asphalt

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Apr 25, 2014

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has been using rubberized asphalt on state highways for more than a quarter of ...

Researchers finally know how tires make sound and the...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 14, 2014

Yokohama has announced that through work with the Japanese equivalent of NASA, the company for the first time has an understanding ...

VIDEO: Exploding tire sends mechanic flipping through...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 09, 2014

No. 7 Video in 2014 « NO. 8 NO. 6 » It's tough to tell just what kind of shop we're looking ...

Burn, Baby, Burn: Tire Inferno

Posted by Tina Grady Barbaccia on Oct 02, 2013

This gives burning rubber a new meaning. Instead of striking it rich with his Great American Tire Pile of at least ...

GEAR: Trimble’s TirePulse Monitoring System gives...

Posted by Amy Materson on Aug 07, 2013

Reduce your fleet’s maintenance costs with Trimble’s TirePulse Monitoring System, which provides real-time pressure and high-temperature alerts via Trimble’s VisionLink. Part ...

Texas county tries “mechanical concrete”

Posted by John Latta on Jul 23, 2013

A major Texas county is trying out a road bed system that uses old tires. Thousands of them, not chewed ...

Contractors put in 1,000s of hours with top-selling heavy...

Face to face most contractors are brutally honest when they ...

John Deere unveils 26G compact excavator: less weight, more...

In a continuation of the G-Series upgrades that started in ...

Case launches a new backhoe: 580N EP aimed at rental,...

At The Rental Show this week, Case Construction Equipment revealed ...

PHOTOS: Caterpillar unveils new 3-tower HQ campus spanning 6...

Caterpillar will make major, but very welcome, changes to the ...

VIDEO: Best dad ever builds drivable mini Caterpillar Model...

It's not every dad that loves heavy equipment and tinkering ...

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