Southern Tire Mart has agreed to buy 46 GCR Tires & Service (GCR) stores and six GCR retread plants from Bridgestone Americas.
Dayton brand truck and bus tires will see a 20% price increase which Bridgestone Americas says is the result of increased business costs and market dynamics.
The Bandag BLSS retread is designed for fleets that work in both on and off-road environments.
Bridgestone Europe N.V. will acquire TomTom's commercial telematics business, which is the largest among European fleet telematics providers, to create a leading data platform for connected vehicles, the company has announced.
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC and Bridgestone Canada Inc. will increase the price of Firestone brand truck and bus radial tires on Feb. 1, 2019.
Bridgestone Americas’ Bandag BRSS is an all-position retread designed for fleets that work in on- and off-road environments.
Bridgestone calls its new BDM3 tire a “next-generation retread” for the drive position in refuse applications.
Increased costs and market dynamics are to blame for a price increase of up to 10% on Bridgestone, Firestone, and Bandag tires and retreads.
Citing increased business costs and other unnamed market factors, Bridgestone has increased the price of Dayton brand truck and bus radial tires by 10%.
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations and Bridgestone Canada have issued a voluntary noncompliance recall of around 2,700 tires for an issue that could lead to exposure and deterioration of steel body cords.