When preparing your vehicle for winter, most people think about getting the battery tested, installing new wiper blades and having plenty of windshield-washer fluid on hand. Those are all good habits.

Take a look at the tread pattern on your tires sometime. They are quite complex and have details that, when observed closely, show several different patterns and shapes that make up the ...

Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions (BBTS), a division of Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, is introducing a new premium Bandag brand B197 trailer tread design. Aug. 23, 2010 Bridgestone Bandag Tire ...

Bandag Inc's new FuelTech Drive and FuelTech Trailer tread designs, with Bandag's new Synergy low-rolling-resistance rubber compound, may change some Bandag Inc's new FuelTech Drive and FuelTech ...

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 ...

OSAKA, Japan (Aug. 12, 2014) — At first glance, tire treads and high fashion would appear to be completely incongruous, but Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. likes to thinks otherwise. The tire maker has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michelin Retread Technologies has announced what it describes as the first self-regenerating retread – the Michelin XDA Hypersipe. The retread, according to the company, uses Michelin-patented tread ...

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 ...

Some tires considered the cream of the crop 20 years ago would not even make today’s EPA SmartWay list. That’s how much tire technology has evolved. “In the 1990s, tread designs were relatively static ...